The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Akwa Ibom State, and Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere has promised economic reforms in the state, saying he will banish poverty when he becomes governor. Speaking today in Uyo during the flag-off of his campaigns in the state, Ekere said…
The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the Federal SARS, Special Investigation Panel and Special Tactical Squad. He announced this on Monday at his inaugural conference with Commissioners of Police and other senior officers in Abuja. Based on the new directive, the SARS will now be domiciled under…
President Muhammadu Buhari recently commissioned the multi billion Naira Baro Port in Niger State. At the commissioning The President said if successive governments at the federal level had implemented the comprehensive master plan for the development of the Nigerian Inland Waterways across 28 states of the country initiated by the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), under…
AHEAD of next month’s general elections, a delegation of the European Union on Wednesday visited the national headquarter of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to seek for the update on the forthcoming exercise from the electoral umpire. Leading the delegation was the EU Ambassador in Nigeria, Mr. Ketil Karlsen. Other members of the delegation…
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday said President Muhammadu Buhari has succeeded in deceiving Nigerians for the first time and the countrymen would be fools to play into his hand for the second time. He likened Buhari’s government to “Abacha era”, saying the security institutions are being misused to fight all critics and opponents…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has insisted that the federal government must pay the sum of N50billion revitalisation fund for it to consider suspension of the ongoing strike. The Union also said it has lost confidence in government making empty promises which it will not keep to after agreements have been reached. Other…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has advised the new Inspector General of Police, Adamu Abuabakar Mohammad to thread the route of credibility in his new job by clearing the mess heaped on the force by his predecessor, Ibrahim Idris. Prince Secondus advisory came as he addressed mammoth party…
We read with dismay and utter disgust another round of spurious allegations by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, at a campaign rally in the State yesterday, accusing the former Governor of the State and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of ‘the plot to destroy the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen.’ This is…
Unknown gunmen in early hours of Friday abducted Governor Wike’s Special Adviser on Lands and Survey , Dr Anugbom Onuoha. Eye witness account had it that the gunmen that dressed in military uniforms stormed a Hotel at popular Ada George road, Port Harcourt where Dr Anugbom had gone to and took him away. Rivers State…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has effected the judgment of Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt by removing the logo of the APC and names of all its candidates for the National Assembly election from its documents in Rivers State. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has effected…
