The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved Thursday, April 11, 2024, as an additional public holiday. This decision was disclosed through a statement issued by Dr. Aishetu Ndayako, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, on Tuesday. The announcement, which was shared via the ministry’s official communication channel, highlighted the importance of recognizing Eid-El-Fitr…
A Sokoto-based cleric, Sheikh Musa Lukwa, on Tuesday led his followers to observe Eid prayers despite the directive by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar. The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, under the leadership of the Sultan of Sokoto, had on Monday night declared that fasting would continue on Tuesday as…
Following a defamation and cyberstalking petition filed last week by gospel artiste, Nathaniel Bassey, against four Facebook users, one of them, Kingsley Ibe, has apologised to the singer and Mercy Chinwo. Ibe also turned himself into police custody. He and three others alleged that Bassey fathered the son of Mercy Chinwo an allegation that went…
A former presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dele Momodu has accused Nyesom Wike of disloyalty to the party and claims. Even though the FCT minister is working under the administration of President Bola Tinubu, the president’s camp does not trust him. Wike, a former governor of Rivers State, backed Tinubu of the…
Nigerian-born U.S.-based physicians have commenced a free medical mission targeted at 7,000 Abia residents with different health challenges. The team, operating under the auspices of the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas said this at a news briefing organised in Umuahia on Monday by the group. The President of the association, Dr Chinyere Anyaogu,…
Governor Hope Uzodimma has approved the immediate emÂployment of Mr. Chinonso Oparaji and Mrs. Chipuruime Udeh, two indigenes of Imo State who made First Class in Law at both the Imo State University and the Nigerian Law School. He gave the approval when the duo, in the company of the Vice Chancellor of Imo State…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has said the cost of governance has drastically reduced over the past 10 months he took charge of the affairs of the state. He stated this at the weekend during his monthly media chat at the government house Umuahia, saying that he has banished frivolities in government expenditure. “We’ve been…
It was a gathering of who is who and moment of panegyrics at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Umunze in Orumba South L.G.A. of Anambra State on Sunday, as the Member representing the Orumba North and South Federal Constituency at the Green Chambers, Hon. Princess Chinwe Clara Nnabuife of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) danced…
….Announces Salary Increment For Health Workers Lagos council approves 100 per cent pay rise for doctors Abia State Government has announced plans to clear salary arrears owed medical doctors in the state by the previous administrations. This is coming barely one week after the State Government said it spent N10 billion to defray pension arrears…
Igbo think-tank organisation, Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) on Saturday elected former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie and former Deputy National President of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Abia Onyike as President and General Secretary respectively. The election which took place at the Enugu residence of former…
