National Assembly workers under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria have called for the extension of their retirement to 65 years of age or 40 years of service. Currently retirement age in the federal civil service is 60 years or 35 years in service, whichever comes first. In a statement on Thursday by…
The Senate in Nigeria has thrown out a bill seeking to include Anambra among States in the Niger Delta Development Commission. The Bill titled: A Bill for an Act to amend the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Act to make provision for the inclusion of Anambra State as one of the member state and for…
It has been a period of scare for Point of Sale Operators popularly called POS operators in Ebonyi state as gunmen have again killed a man in the retail cash business named Louis Enoshi. The deceased was a native of Umuogudu-Akpu, Ngbo in the Ohaukwu local government area of the state. According to sources in…
The federal government Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has denied reports that the Military destroyed camps belonging to the Eastern Security Network, ESN, around Eke Ututu market in Orsumoghu, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. IPOB charged the Nigerian Government to stop linking ESN to acts of criminality. In a statement signed by…
President Bola Tinubu’s nominee from the South East to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Urum Kalu Eke, has declined the offer stating that he is currently engaged with the World Bank and other international financial institutions. The nominee was reported to have said that his role as a member of the…
It has been 48 hours of uninterrupted power supply residents of Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia state Abia State following the commissioning of the Aba Geometric Power Plant for business. On Sunday, one of the four turbines at the plant was switched on and since then, some sections of Aba have been enjoying…
The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, CON said the economic transformation and development of the nation calls for collaborative efforts on the part of both the government and the governed. She was speaking at the flag-off of the Renewed Hope Initiative, RHI women Agricultural Support Programme (RHI-WASP) held in the…
Aides to Abia State governor, Dr. Alex Otti and his predecessor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu have taken to conventional and social media to attack one another over claims by the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Geometric Power Ltd, Osisioma, Aba, Prof. Barth Nnaji, that he was to receive payment on the proposed five per cent equity of…
Two communities in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State, Eziukwu Ebem and Ekeluogo Ebem, have appealed against the judgment of the Abia State High Court which upheld their exclusion from the list of duly recognised autonomous communities in the state. The two autonomous communities were in 2002 created out of then Ebem Oha autonomous…
AN expert in human nutrition and dietetics, Professor Abraham Onigbinde, has said the rise in cases of malnutrition in Nigeria is because the impact of the government’s policies and programmes to improve food and nutrition security, despite its achievements, was limited. Professor Onigbinde spoke at the 10th memorial lecture of Professor Isaac Akinyele at the…
