The leadership of the Biafra Independence Movement and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has accused former governors of Anambra and Imo state, Peter Obi, and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State of betrayed the late Biafran leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. In a statement by its Senior Special Assistant on Media and…
A list of 22 Justices of the Court of Appeal nominated by the Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC, for elevation to the Supreme Court has been sent to the National Judicial Council, NJC. The names of the nominees, who hail from various regions in the country, were revealed on Thursday. The North-Central region has six…
The Imo State Commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba, has said that no government official was among suspects arrested in connection with an assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero. The NLC leadership had embarked on strike on Tuesday and accused the Imo State Government of sending some of its officials…
The High Court in Abuja on Wednesday sacked Senator Samuel Anyanwu from office as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The court, in the ruling that was delivered by Justice M. M. Adamu, ordered Senator Anyanwu, who was the candidate of the PDP in the just concluded governorship election in Imo State,…
Some major opposition parties in Nigeria have welcomed suggestions of a merger ahead of next general election to dislodge the ruling All Progressive Congress Former Vice president and PDP candidate in the 2023 presidential election Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday called for a merger by major opposition parties to remove APC from power The Labour Party…
The Newly appointed Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunji Disu, has ordered policemen posted to the troubled Ahoada area of the state to arrest those involved in the killing of the Divisional Police Officer of Ahoada Police Division, SP Bako Angbashim. Disu said he would not tolerate the killing of policemen in the state,…
Members of the Imo Elders council have met with the pesident of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero in Abuja to intervene in the ongoing impasse between the state government and the NLC. This is as the nationwide strike declared by the leadership of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC)…
Organised Labour made up of has Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has suspended the indefinite nationwide strike which began on Tuesday November 14. The decision was reached at a meeting on Wednesday that deliberated on the outcome of an earlier interface with the Federal Government led by the…
The UK government has said it will introduce emergency legislation to mark Rwanda as a safe country. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this after the UK Supreme Court ruled the flagship asylum policy was unlawful. According to the Prime Minister, the UK is working on a new treaty with Rwanda following the court’s decision. The…
Francis Ngannou has been ranked the number 10 heavyweight by the WBC after his fight against Tyson Fury.The 37 year old former UFC heavyweight champion narrowly lost to Fury on points after knocking the Briton down. Fury’s WBC title was not on the line for the bout as Ngannou was not previously ranked by the…
