Some teachers in Abia State, mostly women, on Thursday took to the streets to show their displeasure over government’s refusal to pay their salaries. The demonstrator carried placards displaying various messages all pointing to non-payment of their salaries for months by their employers. They paraded streets of Umuahia, the state capital, urging the government to…
Yoruba leaders have been advised to disregard the factional leader of the Oodua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, Otunba Gani Adams as one of the credible Yoruba leaders who would determine the fate of the Yoruba Nation. This was contained in a press release signed by the spokesperson of the National Executive Council of the OPC, Comrade…
Reports reaching us show that candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last governorship election in Plateau State, Senator Gyang Nyam Shom Pwajok, fondly called GNS Pwajok, is dead. Pwajok lost the poll to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Silas Lalong, and recently also lost his bid to upturn…
An appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s governorship candidate in the April 11, 2015, election in Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, challenging the election of Governor Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has been struck out by the Supreme Court. Justice John Fabiyi, who led the seven-man panel of the Supreme Court,…
Lagos is the heartbeat of Nigeria-economically, socially and otherwise. From the comical to the puzzling and the most shocking, it all happens in this city of over 15 million people. It is a fascinating place to be. Due to the complexities that make Lagos unique, people have evolved different ways to communicate, interact and pass…
According to reports reaching us, some motorcycle riders in Lagos State on Wednesday evening engaged policemen, who tried to arrest their members. A resident of Oke Afa near Jakande Estate told our correspondent that the policemen had attempted to arrest motorcycle riders plying Canoe area of Oke Afa, but resisted. While the security operatives tried…
Though the 2015 edition of Felabration, an annual music festival in honour of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti started on low key, but it ended on a high note. Several musicians that performed at the event ensured participants had a fun-filled time at the one-week long event and one of them was Kilo One, who did not disappoint…
By Andy Adibenma I woke up this morning angry. The cause being the numskull call of one Umara Kumalia for a Northern (National) conference for Northern Nigeria, to discuss the self-inflected poverty and non-development of the region, when a radio announcement from one of the now many radio stations in Owerri brought me back to…
No fewer than 30 members of the Boko Haram terrorists were on Tuesday killed by troops of 28 Task Force Brigade Nigerian Army deployed at Bitta and Pridang. The military carried out a successful raid on suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ camps at Bulajilin and Manawashe villages along the Bita and Damboa road at the fringes…
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has fixed December 21, 2015, for judgement in a $330,000 scam case involving a former registrar of a Lagos High Court, Mrs Rosulu Idowu Oluronke. Oluronke was charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence. Specifically,…