National Chairman of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (retd) has cautioned the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang against speaking on security matters.Enang had stated that regional security outfit was a threat to Nigeria’s security and cautioned those planning for it to be careful…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that Nigerians will pay dearly if they discredit the nation’s academics because of sexual harassment in universities. ASUU National Chairman, Dr Biodun Ogunyemi, stated this in Abuja during Senate public hearing on ‘Sexual Harassment of Students in Tertiary Institutions (Prohibition) Bill 2019’. He said this period…
Former Head of state and Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences, Port Harcourt, General Abdulsalami Abubakar has expressed worry over the heightening insecurity in the country . General Abdulsalami Abubakar who spoke in Port Harcourt on Monday at the First Founders Day Ceremony of PAMO University of Medical Science called on all Nigerians to…
•calls for the resignation of Oshiomhole over failure to stop the swearing-in of Bayelsa State Governor •says he remains an unrepentant PDP member Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) Adams Oshiomhole and his associates came from a background of Armed Robbers to steal…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Adamu Mohammed, to pull in the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for questioning and prosecution for alleged incitement of violence in Bayelsa state. The party in a statement Friday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Duoye Diri as the winner of the Bayelsa election. The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who made this announcement on Friday at the INEC headquarters in Abuja said the certificate of return will be issued immediately to the winner. Yakubu…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has called on the Federal Government to warn the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to stop making inflammatory remarks capable of destabilising the country. Governor Wike also berated the APC National Chairman for saying that there will be no swearing-in of the PDP…
The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has reacted to the Supreme Court judgement nullifying David Lyon as the governor to be sworn in on Friday, saying the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate did not meet the requirement to be sworn in as directed. At an ongoing press conference, Oshiomhole declared…
The Supreme Court, on Thursday, sacked the governor-elect of Bayelsa State, David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices led by Justice Mary Odili, held that Degi-Eremieoyo presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. It held that the Form…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) have signed a $1.16 million grant as part funding for the NNPC-Abuja Independent Power Project (IPP) modelled to generate 1,350 megawatts of electricity to alleviate the power challenge in the country. The signing between the NNPC, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency…
