A group known as Vanguard for Justice, Equity and Strategy has commended the INEC for carrying forward the date of the planned Rivers re-run election as a result of incessant killings of people in the state. Speaking in a seminar on Youth violence in Port Harcourt over the weekend, the vice President of the group,…
Senator Godswill Akpabio at the moment may not be the happiest man in the world and the reason is not far-fetched. Or how will you expect the former governor of Akwa-Ibom State to be happy when his darling wife, Ekaette Uloma, who has solidly stood behind him for many years, is battling with an ailment…
African Export Import Bank, Afreximbank, has provided a $150 million funding support for Heritage Bank Limited. In a statement announcing this development yesterday, Divisional Head, Corporate Communications, Olusola Longe-Okenimkpe said, “HBCL Investment Services Limited (HISL) a major shareholder of Heritage Bank Limited has executed the term sheet for the issuance of guarantee for its $150…
The first year remembrance of His Imperial Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, the 50th Ooni of Ife, has been fixed to hold next week. The two-day event will kick off on Thursday, July 28, 2016, with a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ayegbaju, Ife, Osun State. This will then be followed by…
The Ogun State government has offered to adopt the nine-year-old boy chained by his father, Francis Taiwo. The victim, Korede Taiwo, was handed over to the state government by the Ogun State Police Command in Abeokuta. Korede was rescued last week by a combined team of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigerian Security and…
Former US First Lady, Hilary Clinton, has officially been announced as flag-bearer of the Democratic Party for the November 2016 presidential election. At the Democratic Party Convention held in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Democrats voted the former US Secretary of State as the first woman nominated for president by a major political party. The former…
There was tension in the air on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, when two ministerial nominees failed to recite the National anthem and pledge properly. The nominees, Ibrahim Isa from Niger State and Vivian Nwunaku Okeke from Anambra State mixed up the National Anthem and pledge when the chairman of the senate committee on Foreign Affairs,…
Crisis rocking the Kogi State House of Assembly for a while now seems to have come to an end with the resignation of Momoh Jimoh as Speaker of the House. This has led to the appointment of Ahmed Umar Alfa as the new Speaker. It would be recalled that the House has been immersed in…
An appeal has been made to the Federal Government to immediately disband the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This call was made by the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Austin Tam-George, via a statement issued shortly after the cancellation of the rerun election scheduled for July 30. Tam-George noted that…
The unknown gunmen, who abducted a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, over the weekend, have contacted his family. Reports say the kidnappers have demanded for a ransom of N100 million for the release of the man of God. Pastor Olukayode Bajomo was seized on Sunday during church service. The unfortunate incident…