President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners for a term of five years. The request was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday. The newly appointed RECs were nominated last week to serve in the Independent National Electoral…
The Lagos state government has shut down 34 corporate organizations for failing to remit Personal Income Taxes of their employees and for non-remittance of consumption taxes. The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS), Head, Corporate Communications, Monsurat Amasa-Oyelude, confirmed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Some of these companies to include…
The SS3 student accused of forging her JAMB result Ejikeme Mmesoma has obtained her international passport and she due to travel abroad for further studies. A concerned Nigeria Gauis Chibueze awarded Mmesoma a scholarship after she was suspended by JAMB for falsifying her UTME results. According to social media sources, Ejikeme Mmesoma is now ready…
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has been arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination. The Head of Media at the NLC Headquarters, Benson Uper, stated this on Social…
King Charles III commenced the second day of his trip to Kenya on Wednesday after acknowledging that there was “no excuse” for colonial-era abuses during Britain’s rule of the East African country. King Charles has previously made three official visits to Kenya, but this is his first tour of an African and Commonwealth nation since…
The traditional ruler of Obosi community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Igwe Chidubem Iweka has called on the five South East governors to convoke a meeting to rescue the zone from terrorists. Igwe Iweka who spoke during a traditional ceremony in his community; Obiora festival said other Igbo stakeholders need to…
Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has expressed Sadness on the death of former Secretary-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, and legal luminary and national patriot, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, who died on Sunday 29, October 2023. Governor Soludo in his tribute to the late legal luminary and elder statesman said that Prof. Nwabueze’s influence extended…
A notorious gunrunner has been arrested, while many locally made bombs have been recovered as security operatives continues raiding hideouts of gunmen terrorizing different parts of Anambra State and its environs. According to a statement issued by the acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Lt. Col. Jonah Unuakhalu; the latest clearance operation by…
Staff of Anambra State House of Assembly, under the backing of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have commenced an indefinite strike. According to them, the strike is to press home their demand for financial autonomy of the legislative arm of government. Mr. Abraham Okoye, the Chairman of PASAN in Anambra state in an interview…
Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo has successfully carried out a rescue mission in a brothel in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of the State. About twenty girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five were rescued in the mission.The raid was done in alliance with the police…
