Residents and Indigenes of Umuawulu community in Awka South local government Area of Anambra state have threatened to occupy Enugu Electricity Distribution Company EEDC, Awka office, if it fails to restore power to community within two weeks. The threat was contained in a protest letter titled ” Protest Against Continued Breach of NERC Decision on…
President Bola Tinubu says the Federal Government will give the National Population Commission (NPC) all the support it needs to conduct the National Population and Housing census in the country. The President said this on Wednesday, at the launch of the National Geospatial Data Repository, Digital CRVS System, and inauguration of the National Coordination Committee…
Former Tottenham manager Nuno Espirito Santo has been sacked by his club Al-Ittihad following a run of poor results. Saudi Pro League champions Al-Ittihad have won six of 12 league games this season and suffered a 2-0 defeat by Air Force Club of Iraq in the Asian Champions League on Monday. Nuno took over at…
A man has been killed by a robot in South Korea after the robot failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling. The incident occurred when the man, a robotics company employee in his 40s, was inspecting the robot. The robotic arm, confusing the man for a box of vegetables, grabbed…
A court in Osun state has convicted five men for cyber-stalking and defrauding former Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, of the sum of N38 million. The convicts reportedly blackmailed the speaker with his 13-second nude video which was leaked on the internet in 2018. However, an investigation carried out by Osun…
PDP Presidential candidate in the February Presidential election Atiku Abubakar has been advised to retire from active politics A faction of Ohaneze Ndigbi led by Chidi Ibeh in a statement urged the former Vice President to embrace the role of a statesman. In a statement on Tuesday through its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the group advised…
The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has responded to comments by Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma that NLC President Joe Ajaero’s visit to Imo state was for political reasons Speaking on a television programme, said his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was in Imo State on November…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that over one hundred and thirty seven thousand polling agents have been registered for the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. In a list of polling and collation agents released on Tuesday, INEC said at the close of the deadline for uploading…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today produced the former Governor of the Central Bank Godwin Emefiele in court for the hearing of his bail application Emefiele, who has been in the custody of Security agencies for over 149 days, was ordered by Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, to…
Nigeria has been included as one of the most dangerous countries for Christians in the world In a report by a non-partisan Christian organisation, International Christian Concern, extremists and militants have been killing Christians in the country and dispossessing them of their lands in the last 20 years. The Organisation’s 2023 report on Christian persecutors…
