The immediate past Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, Earl Osaro Osaze Onaiwu, has emerged candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, for the September 10, 2016, governorship election in Edo State. Onaiwu was presented his certificate as the flag-bearer of APGA in Edo State for the gubernatorial poll on…
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 and Wednesday, July 6, 2016, have been declared as work-free days by the Federal Government to mark the celebration of the end of Ramadan fast, Eid-el Fitri. A statement signed on Thursday by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, urged all Muslim faithful to extend the spiritual benefits of Ramadan, which…
The 8th edition of the Nigerian Breweries’ Golden Pen Awards has opened with the promise to celebrate and reward winners. Kufre Ekanem, Nigerian Breweries Corporate Affairs Adviser, who explained to newsmen at the media parley to announce this year’s edition of the awards said it will reward journalists in three categories – the Nigerian Breweries…
The teaching of religious studies in Nigerian schools has been advocated by the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muiz Banire, to curb the decadence and high level of criminality in the society. Banire made this recommendation at the breaking of Ramadan fast with the children from the Babel Salam Orphanage home.…
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Badagry Unit, has set all machinery in motion to start enforcing the law against excessive loading of goods by long haul articulated vehicles, trailers along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway leading to the Nigerian–Benin Republic border town of Seme. The overloading trailers along the route who commute in the evenings, late…
A renowned African finest novelist, poet and dramatist, Elechi Amadi, has died at the Good Heart hospital in Port Harcourt at the age of 82. Late Amadi, who was once Commissioner for Education (1987–88) and later Commissioner for Lands and Housing (1989–90) in Rivers State, breathed his last at about 3: 45pm at the hospital.…
Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe, has been reported dead. The former Minister was said to have died on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. The late Abia State-born politician was a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and held important position in the party. He was the Secretary, Board of Trustees, BoT,…
Don Awunah has been appointed as the new Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force by the acting Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim K Idris. A statement issued on Monday, June 27, 2016, by Admin Officer at the Force Public Relations Department, Force Headquarters, Abuja, SP Murtala Bello, disclosed that Awunah, a Deputy Commissioner of…
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has been ordered by the court to vacate office with immediate effect. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja gave the directive on Monday, June 27, 2017. Ikpeazu was sacked from office by the court for submitting false information to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the party’s…
**It’s a big lie—PDP source The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, said it has uncovered a plot by Governor Nyesom Wike to smear, intimidate and blackmail the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa and other Justices, using the so-called Integrity Group led by one Livingstone Wechie and his cohorts.…