The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has announced that the proposed national carrier, Nigeria Air will fly before May 29th, 2023. The Minister also said the project was 98 percent completed. He stated this in Abuja on Thursday during the 10th Aviation stakeholders forum. He said: “The airline will fly before May 29th […]
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Alleged incitement: Keyamo petitions DSS, demands Peter Obi’s arrest
Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN) has petitioned the Department of State Services, DSS, demanding the arrest and prosecution for “incitement and treasonable felony”, the Labour Party, LP, presidential and vice presidential candidates, Peter Obi and Datti Baba-Ahmed, respectively, for comments he described as incendiary and capable of causing rebellion. […]
UK court finds Ekweremadu, wife, others guilty of organ harvesting
Former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, wife and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. The 60-year-old politician, 60, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to […]
A’IBOM ASSEMBLY MOURNS PASSAGE OF RENOWNED UYO ELDERSTATESMAN EMCO
Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, has expressed sadness over the passage of Elder Okokon Okon Etuk, one of the revered pathfinders of the state legislature, who died on the 25th day of November, 2022, at the age of 85. Rt. Hon. Bassey, while receiving the remains […]
Umo Eno’s Victory, Eloquent Proof That PDP Is Religion In A’Ibom – USPI Youth Wing
Elated by the landslide victory of the PDP gubernatorial Candidate, Pastor Umo Eno, as the winner of the March 18 Governorship election in Akwa Ibom, the YOUTH WING of a formidable political group in the state; Uyo Senatorial District Peoples’ Initiative (USPI), has said the result of the poll is an eloquent proof […]
Cash scarcity: NLC set to cripple CBN offices
The Nigeria Labour (NLC), yesterday, threatened to shut offices of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) nationwide from next Wednesday to protest the continuous scarcity of the currency. Since the implementation of the naira redesign policy and subsequent cash shortage, Nigerians have had harrowing experience. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, who spoke in Abuja, yesterday, directed […]
Presidential election: I didn’t betray Obi –Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied working against the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the state. Speaking during a media chat in Port Harcourt, he said in less than a year, Obi galvanised young voters in such a manner some had described as unprecedented and finished the race with 6,101,533 […]
Man accused of poisoning wife’s drink to be with mistress
A Colorado dentist has been charged with killing his wife and the mother of his six children by spiking her protein shakes with arsenic and cyanide, so he could start a new life with his lover, according to court documents. James Toliver Craig, 45, was arrested Sunday on one count of first-degree murder for […]
FAAC shares N723 b to FG, States, LGs
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared the sum of N722.677 billion to the Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the FAAC meeting, in Abuja, yesterday. According to the Communique sent to the media by the Director of Press and Public […]
Just In: INEC declares PDP’s Mbah Enugu gov-elect
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Dr Peter Mbah, has won the March 18 governorship election in the state. He scored 160,895 votes to defeat his closest rival, Chijioke Edeoga of the Labour Party (LP), who polled 157,552 votes. Frank Nweke Jnr of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) […]