President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to be in Abia State on Friday, February 24 for the official commissioning ceremony of the Geometric Power Generation Plant at Osisioma local government area. The commissioning of the plant is expected to boost power generation and make business thrive in Aba and environs and other areas within the…
Gunmen have attacked the Senator representing Imo-North senatorial district (Okigwe zone), Senator Patrick Ndubueze, resulting in the tragic death of one of his orderlies. The gunmen stormed the senator’s residence during the early hours of Monday. While the senator managed to escape unharmed, one of the policemen assigned to him was fatally shot. He said:…
The Nigeria Union of Teachers(NUT), pleads with President Tinubu to declare state of emergency on security. National President of the union, Comrade Audu Amba, made the call on Monday in Abuja at the NUT 6th Annual Solemn Assembly, Amba said Nigeria in recent times had recorded unforeseen security challenges and government must take decisive action…
Senegalese today protested against President Macky Sall’s controversial move to delay this month’s presidential poll to December Sall’s decision to push back the February 25 vote plunged Senegal into a crisis which has seen three dead amid clashes between protesters and police. The group, which includes some 40 civil, religious and professional groups, had called…
The head of military junta in Niger Republic, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that none of the three Sahel countries would rejoin the regional bloc, Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. Tchiani made the vow in an interview in the country’s capital Niamey on Monday. Military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, on…
The Lagos State Government has given a four-day ultimatum to illegal occupants to vacate Obalende Bridge, Apongbon Bridge, Ijora Bridge, National Stadium and illegal motor parks. In a joint statement issued by the state Commissioner for Transportation, Seun Osiyemi; the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa; and Special Adviser to the Governor…
Israel’s spy chief is on his way to Cairo for talks with his Egyptian and United States counterparts on a Gaza truce proposal. Mossad director David Barnea will meet CIA chief William Burns. They will be joined in the Egyptian capital by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who also serves as the country’s…
There are moves by the House Of Representatives to create three additional states in the South West zone. This follows a proposal before the House of Representatives sponsored by the lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Osun State, Oluwole Oke. The suggested legislation aims to establish separate states, namely- Oke-Ogun, Ijebu, and Ife-Ijesa. It is named…
Liberia’s new defence minister on Monday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers’ wives. The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January. Boakai “has received and accepted a letter of resignation from the recently…
The Imo State Police Command has launched a manhunt in search of hoodlums responsible for the attack on the Correctional Service Farm Settlement at Umualomoke in Okigwe Local Government Area of the state. The State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Henry Okoye, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Owerri. The hoodlums attacked…
