BY GODDY OBINWA The feud between the parishioners of St Martin of Tours Parish and concerned citizens of Ihiala has assumed a dangerous dimension with heavily armed men invading the premises of the church on Thursday night. Their mission could not be ascertained immediately, but it was gathered that theContinue Reading
EFE MODESTUS The Federal Government, through the National Bureau of Statistics, on Thursday said 130 million Nigerians are poor. In its 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey released in Abuja on Thursday, the NBS said the figure represents 63 per cent of the nation’s population. It added that the poverty indexContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization, His Excellency Kitack Lim, is scheduled to visit the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 20th – 22nd 2022. During his visit, the Secretary General will attend the Nigeria International Maritime Summit 2022 where regional policies and operational perspectivesContinue Reading
Many Jos residents, majorly youths, who are supporters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, trooped to the Rwang Pam stadium, venue of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign flag-off to engage in cleansing exercise. The APC had flagged off its presidential campaign in the state capital onContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBI The South-East and Middle Belt Forum has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi. This was the group’s position during a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday. The Chairman of the Forum Olisa Uzowulu noted that the former Anambra State governor ranks higherContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, condemned what he described as the lopsided appointment of heads of security agencies by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. “PDP will form a government of national unity. We will bring members of the opposition whoContinue Reading
By Godwin Obi The Ports Terminal Multiservices Limited, PTML of the Nigeria Customs service said it collected a total of N199, 468,482,842.00 between January and October, 2022, even as the Customs Area Controller of Comptroller Suleman Bomai has tasked officers and men of the command to be business savvy andContinue Reading
BY GODDY OBINWA The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation says a “belaboured treatise of an article” written by Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo on one of his predecessors, Peter Obi, is full of fallacies and personal vendetta. Soludo had in a lengthy opinion piece on Monday tackled the Labour Party presidentialContinue Reading
BY EFE MODESTUS Nigerians took to twitter on Monday to express displeasure over irregularities found in the voter register released online by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Social media users pointed out that there were many cases of multiple registrations and the registration of under-aged looking voters. For instance,Continue Reading
BY JAMES AKINOLA Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has expressed concern on the frequency of kidnap incidents in the South West, especially on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in recent times. A statement by its publicity secretary, Jare Ajayi, stated that the frequency and ferocity of kidnapping were engendering worries regarding the territorial expansionContinue Reading