By Godwin Obi Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have hit President Bola Tinubu over his Independence Day speech. It separate statements, yesterday, the main opposition party described it as “empty and bereft of ideas” while the former vice president not only was it insipid andContinue Reading
By Owei Lakemfa IT was a short honeymoon. I expected it to be so. The Minister of Works, Senator David ‘Dave’ Nweze Umahi, was just 38 days in office when the staff of the Ministry publicly demanded his removal. Hundreds of workers at the Ministry’s gates on Thursday, September 28,Continue Reading
The Federal Government is hopeful of the organised labour suspending its planned indefinite strike, saying the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) will consider the government’s offers, including a N35,000 pay increase for all “treasury-paid” federal workers. This was one of the highlights of theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 general election, Peter Obi, has enjoined Nigerians not to despair over the agonizing situation in the country 63 years after independence from colonial rule. Obi tasked Nigerians to remain resolute and hopeful that a new NigeriaContinue Reading
Atiku By Efe Modestus The presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has said Nigeria is celebrating its 63rd independence at a crossroads. According to him, the nation which is yet to attain its full potentials has so much to be grateful for,Continue Reading
A 200-level student of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), Katsina State simply identified as Abubakar has been confirmed dead following a clash between students over a relationship with a female student. The tragic incident involving eight students of the university was said to have takenContinue Reading
Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, has stated that President Bola Tinubu was the first to suffer the impact of fuel subsidy removal. President Bola Tinubu had in his inaugural speech on May 29 declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”, a move that has seen the price of petrol andContinue Reading
Comptroller Timi Bomodi displaying the wild birds to journalists Five days after intercepting 62 African parrots and a hawk being smuggled out of Nigeria via Seme border, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized another set of 105 wild birds amid attempts to import and export the endangered species through theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, has advised the governorship candidates, who the state Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, yesterday dismissed their petitions against the Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, not to waste further energy and resources on futile litigation. The candidates are Senator Ovie Omo-Agege , AllContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar have urged the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to shelve their planned strike over the removal of fuel subsidy. The organised labour had fixed Tuesday, October 3, for the commencementContinue Reading