In a bid to avert a nationwide strike, the House of Representatives says it would meet with representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress to convince them to shelve its planned strike over minimum wage. The Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu who presided over plenary on Thursday in the absence of Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen, assured Nigerians that…
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government and the Nigerian Army to reopen Banex Plaza in Abuja immediately The military had taken over the plaza since the attack on its personnel by civilians on Saturday, May 18, 2024. The House compared the response of the military to the reprisal attacks in Okuama community…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has declared his interest to run for the presidency of Nigeria in the 2027 election. Atiku has ran to become Nigeria’s President for six times within three decades, his most recent attempt being in the 2023 presidential election as the PDP candidate. At his last attempt, the 77-year-old got 6,984,520…
Nigeria’s lower lawmaking arm the House of Representatives has passed a bill to revert to the old national anthem “Nigeria, We Hail Thee”. The bill was quickly passed through first second and third reading within minutes. The lead debate for a return to the old anthem by the House Leader, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, pointed to…
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Thursday joined other African leaders to attend the inauguration of General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, as president of Chad Deby officially won 61 percent of the May 6 vote that international NGOs said was neither credible nor free and which his main rival called a “masquerade”. Taking the oath of…
Four years after Muhammadu Sanusi II was deposed as the Emir of Kano, Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has reinstated him to the throne. Re-instating him, the governor said, “With the full support of the kingmakers, I have approved the reappointment of Mallam Sanusi Lamido,” the governor said to cheers at the Art Chamber…
Inner Galaxy Steel Company, Umuahala-Obuzor in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State, has reacted to the death of one of its staff who worked as a crane operator, Ocheze Ogbonna. The member representing Ukwa East/Ukwa West Federal Constituency of Abia State in the House of Representatives, Chris Nkwonta, said the deceased died after…
One of the three abducted school children of the same parents from Amaoba-Ime Oboro Ikwuano Local Government Area, has been rescued and reunited with the family.Mayor of Ikwuano, Comrade Osinachi Nwaka, in a statement yesterday by his media aide, announced that Master Divine Osinachi, a six-year-old child who went missing on May 10 with his…
The Abia State government says Local Government elections would be conducted in the state as soon as the on-going task of laying solid foundations for the take-off of a credible and formidable Local government systems are completed. The state commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Prince Uzor Nwachukwu who stated this during an interaction…
Anambra State Government has vowed to fish out and prosecute the killers of the Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ihiala Branch and Principal State Counsel, Barr. Awa P. Awa, who was recently murdered in his hometown, Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of the State. The State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo gave the…
