TheHILL. | NEWS | January 25 The Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has canvassed better welfare and remuneration of judicial officers for efficient justice delivery. He stated this on Tuesday at the 2022 Justice Sector Summit organised by the Nigerian Bar Association and the Justice Research Institute in collaboration with the […]
Month: September 2024
Ogun FRSC officers assist woman in labour who delivered of baby girl
TheHILL | NEWS | January 23. Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State Sector Command, rendered assistance to a woman in labour while in transit on Friday. FRSC, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem, in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, said the assistance became imperative to save the pregnant woman and […]
Enoidem, Akwa Ibom 2023 and the Etim Ekpo MPM resignation saga
TheHILL | POLITICS | January 23. By Celestine Mel If victory in election was a function of resignations, Hilltop Mansion Uyo would have been home of the other side since 2019. We had them many then. I agree that Barr Emmanuel Enoidem needs to urgently put his house at home in order. But in […]
Non-Igbos won’t be forced to join Biafra – Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB
TheHILL | NEWS. | The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB (IPOB) has said that being part of Biafra would never be by coercion but voluntary through a referendum. The group, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful, said any tribe or ethnicity not willing to be part of the republic would […]
Suspected herdsmen attack Benue community, kill two, burn houses
TheHILL Two persons have been killed by suspected herders in Igama community, in Ojugo ward of the Okpokwu Local government Area of Benue State. A resident who did not want to be mentioned said the suspects had continued to invade communities in the area in the last two weeks. The resident said the latest attack […]
2023: How plot to draft in Jonathan collapsed
TheHILL Fresh insights into the jostling for the All Progressives Congress, APC 2023 presidential ticket have revealed how the plot to project and draft former President Goodluck Jonathan into the party’s 2023 presidential race collapsed. The collapse of the Jonathan plot ostensibly pushed by some elements in the leadership of the party with the intention […]
James Iniama, political mischief and the burden of history
TheHILL. Many were stunned that a well respected medium as Premium Times could lend itself to a serial political misfit, Mr James Iniama to ventilate his frustration over his defeat in 2007 by Chief Godswill Akpabio to emerge the Governor of Akwa Ibom State. In an interview titled: “How Akwa Ibom became a killing field […]
Ibom Airport Boss eyes Udom seat in 2023, begins massive consultations
TheHILL | POLITICS | January 21 By Mary Ekere The arrival of Dr Iniobong Ene Essien to his hometown, Ikot Edo, Ididep in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area for consultations bordering on the forthcoming 2023 gubernatorial race in Akwa Ibom State could be likened to the triumphant entry of our Lord “Jesus Christ into […]
Alleged Attempt To Compromise AKS APC Congress Committee Members, Laughable – Akpabio
TheHILL | POLITICS | January 21. Minister, Niger Delta Affairs,Senator Godswill Akpabio, has described as laughable, media report that he attempted compromising members of the Akwa Ibom State Congress Committee, saying,” it is laughable and a figment of the imagination of the sponsors, purveyors and supporters of lies and falsehood” The Minister’s reaction was […]
Soldiers raze buildings in Abia community over killing of colleagues
TheHILL | METRO | January 20 Soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion, Asa, Ukwa West council, Abia State reportedly razed buildings in Owaza community over the death of their colleagues. Owaza is a boundary community between Abia and Rivers states. Community people told our source; Vanguard that gunmen, suspected to be oil thieves, had killed […]