Enugu State has a new Commissioner of Police as CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa officially takes over from AIG Kanayo Uzuegbu, who was recently promoted and redeployed. The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed Giwa’s appointment on Tuesday. A native of Paikoro, Niger State, CP Giwa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics…
Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, has taken her battle against Senate President Godswill Akpabio to the international stage. Speaking at the Women in Parliament session during the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting at the United Nations in New York which started trending on Tuesday, she called for justice and intervention from global democratic…
The Federal High Court of Nigeria has clarified that no judge on its bench stepped down from the trial of Biafra nation agitator Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charges. The court also denied the claim attributed to its Chief Judge, John Tsoho, that Kanu’s arrest and detention were illegal. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja,…
The wife of the Abia State governor, Mrs Priscilla Otti, and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intervened in the case of Miss Glory Benjamin, who is suffering from a drug-induced mental health crisis. A press statement from the office of the Governor’s wife on Tuesday stated that Mrs Otti reached out to…
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has stated that HIV treatment is still free at government facilities. This is as it debunked information on social media claiming subsidy for Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been withdrawn. The Director-General of NACA, Temitope Ilori, reacted in a statement on Sunday, March 9, in Abuja. Ms…
British monarch King Charles III has expressed his admiration for Nigerian singer Davido, revealing that his music made him fall in love with Pidgin English. King Charles expressed a strong desire to speak Pidgin the next time he visits Nigeria. The monarch disclosed this in the new Apple Music show, The King’s Music Room, which…
An Arizona, US-based medical doctor, Prince Boris Chukwuemeka Oji MD/PhD has donated medical books worth $5200 (7.8 million naira) to the medical library of the Abia State University, ABSU. According to information, the medical doctor is presently the first black Chief of Medicine/Chairman, Department of Medicine at the BannerDelweb Medical Center, Sun City West, Arizona…
The Director, Department of Pollution Control and Environmental Health, Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs Bahijjahtu Abubakar, explained that Nigeria imports two specific types of waste – mutilated rags and fibre, and Refuse Derived Fuel used for energy generation used to power cement kilns in the production of cement, from the European Union under the 1991…
The family of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has called for disciplinary action against the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, and Justice Binta Nyako, accusing them of disregarding court rulings. In a statement signed by Prince Emmanuel Kanu, the family expressed concern that the judges’…
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment in the appeal filed by Samuel Anyanwu, the embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging his removal from office. Anyanwu is seeking to overturn the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Enugu, which upheld the Federal High Court’s decision that ousted him and recognized Sunday…
