Kennedy Ibeh, the member representing Obowo State Constituency in Imo State House of Assembly, has sponsored a bill to regulate the outrageous cost of customary marriages in Imo State. Ibeh, while presenting the bill for the second reading on Wednesday during plenary, said that the practice predominant in Igboland, hadContinue Reading
There was tension in Okuku town in Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State on Thursday as an unknown number of armed robbers invade a new generation bank in the community. The Nation gathered that the armed robbers stormed the bank around noon shooting sporadically into the air to create fearContinue Reading
The Igbo speaking community in Lagos State has urged the former governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to contest for the presidency in 2023. The leadership made the request during a visit to the immediate past Chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government, ComradeContinue Reading
At an emergency meeting of the PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) held yesterday, the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus rendered the party’s quarterly account of programmes and activities, stating that the party suspended three zonal congresses in the southwest, North-central and North-west to give room for moreContinue Reading
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has approved the appointment of Mr. John Adeniran Adeyemo,mni, as the Head of the Ondo State Public Service. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Olabode Richard Olatunde. According to the statement, the appointmentContinue Reading
Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has kicked against the shoot-on-sight order issued by the presidency on persons found with AK-47 rifles. On March 3, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, said President Muhammadu Buhari had directed security agencies to shoot anyone seen with AK-47 rifles. But speaking when heContinue Reading
Ex-Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, has said he won’t join issues with his successor and current governor of the South-South state, Nyesom Wike. Amaechi, who is the Minister of Transportation, stated this on Thursday while featuring on an Arise TV programme, monitored by The PUNCH. For some years, Amaechi ofContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved N5billion for the National Identity Managment Commission (NIMC) to enable it deliver the national digital economy project with appropriate infrastructures and attractive conditions of service in agencies saddled with the responsibility to do so. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami saidContinue Reading
THE Delta State Government will receive nothing out of the £4.2m (N2.2bn) seized from former Governor James Ibori which will be repatriated from the United Kingdom, a development which has been rejected by the state government, The PUNCH has learnt. The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), while thanking the UK,Continue Reading
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its allies are currently at the National Assembly Complex, protesting moves by lawmakers to remove minimum wage from Exclusive Legislative List to Concurrent Legislative List. The union had on Tuesday, mobilised its members across the country to embark on the protest today (Wednesday). ThoseContinue Reading
