The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed the Public Ranch Management Agency bill. The bill, which was passed on Tuesday in Enugu by the lawmakers, authorised the state government to establish an agency to manage both government and privately owned ranches in the state. Speaking before the passage of the bill, the member representing…
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has criticised the quality of renovation carried out in the senate permanent chamber. Mr Ndume, the senator for Borno South, lamented that the chamber was poorly renovated despite the billions of naira expended on it. The senator made the remarks during the plenary on Tuesday. The federal…
The lifeless body of a father of 12 has been found in a brothel on Tombia-Amassoma Road in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. According to the residents of the area, the deceased who hailed from Delta State, left home around 8am on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, for the brothel. He was later found dead and naked in…
The Federal government has stated that the country’s healthcare system now attracts foreign patients. The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa said this during a television interview. According to him, foreign patients, including Indians seeking medical treatments now visits the country’s health care system. He claimed that with improvements in the healthcare system,…
Over 100 priests, priestesses and palace chiefs stormed the Edo State High Court on Thursday chanting curses against the enemies of the Oba at the resumed hearing of the case instituted by suspended Enigie (Duke) in Benin against Oba Ewuare II. Two suspended Enigie (Dukes) of Evbuobanosa and Egbaen Siluko Dukedoms in Benin Kingdom, Prof…
The Rivers State Government has announced a 20-day event to mark Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s first year in office. Ten projects have been earmarked for inauguration and flag-off in various Local Government Areas of the state as part of the activities. While briefing journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Central Planning Committee…
The Senate has approved the death sentence as a penalty for drug traffickers in the country, as it passes through the third reading, the 2024 NDLEA Act (Amendment) Bill. The proposal was adopted on Thursday when the Senate dissolved into a committee of the whole for a clause-by-clause consideration of a report of the Chairman…
The gallant officers of the Anambra State Police Command, on Thursday, foiled the criminal plots of some armed men within the precinct of the Uli Campus of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, in Ihiala Local Government Area of the State. The Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, disclosed this in a…
The immediate-past Anambra State Commissioner of Police (retd.), CP Aderemi Adeoye has cleared the air over what he described as glaring falsehoods peddled against him by a columnist, Olusegun Adeniyi, in his piece, captioned “The Billionaire Police Commissioner”, in which the author opinionated certain things about the retired police chief and an investment club founded…
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has been shortlisted for the Premier League player of the season for a second consecutive year. The 23-year-old Norway international has been nominated for the award alongside City team-mate Phil Foden. Arsenal midfielders Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice, Chelsea forward Cole Palmer, Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Aston Villa forward Ollie…
