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31
2024
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Engage Youths To Avoid Protests, Enugu CP Charges Traditional Rulers

Engage Youths To Avoid Protests, Enugu CP Charges Traditional Rulers

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By Johnson Nwankwo Nigerian youths should not engage in the planned hunger protests to avoid possible breakdown of law and order. The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, gave the advice during a one-day seminar on leadership and conflict resolution organized for traditional rulers and presidents general in the state on Tuesday. The event held at the House of Chiefs, Enugu State House of Assembly Complex, Enugu, and was organized by the state Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Chieftaincy Affairs. The CP said the South-East zone has been victims of such violence, losing a lot in…
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Jul
30
2024
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No Security Operative Was Killed In Aba – Information Commissioner

No Security Operative Was Killed In Aba – Information Commissioner

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By Johnson Nwankwo The Abia State government says there was no security operative killed during a gun battle with unidentified gunmen in Aba on Monday. Prince Okey Kanu, the commissioner for information, stated this during a press conference after the State Executive Council meeting at the Government House in Umuahia. He said armed criminals in three vehicles had confronted police operatives at Umuode Tonimas junction in Osisioma Ngwa LGAs, adding that police operatives killed one of the assailants while others escaped with injuries. Quoting him, "In the ensuing gunfight, the criminals were overwhelmed by the superior gun power of the…
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Jul
28
2024
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Nigerians Have Been Patient For Too Long

Nigerians Have Been Patient For Too Long

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By Wordshot Amaechi Ugwele Protests, uprisings or a revolution is indeed long overdue in Nigeria. It's not like, as Nigerians have continued to show all these while, that anybody actually wanted these. However, the ruling elite, for long, in not making possible a peaceful change in the sorry situation they have plunged the people, have inevitably ignited the fuse that is burning to set off the conflagration everybody but themselves saw coming. The people of Nigeria have endured what chattels in a slave camp cannot take. Nigeria has deliberately been reduced to a colony of bonded people, where no economic…
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Jul
24
2024
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Why Peter Obi Is APC’s Headache – Constitutional Lawyer

Why Peter Obi Is APC’s Headache – Constitutional Lawyer

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By Johnson Nwankwo The recent accusation by Mr Bayo Onanuga, the special adviser on information and strategy to president Bola Tinubu, that Mr Peter Obi is orchestrating the planned August 1-10, 2024 nationwide protests is a pointer that the electoral fraud of the 2023 presidential election is still trailing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Obi was LP’s presidential candidate during the poll. A human rights lawyer and member of the Labour Party, Barr Nnadume Offokansi, disclosed this in Enugu while featuring on a programme. Offorkansi described Mr Onanuga as “a flippant human being and ethnic jingoist” for accusing Obi…
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Jul
21
2024
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Despite Constitutional Hurdles, New State Promoters Remain Upbeat

Despite Constitutional Hurdles, New State Promoters Remain Upbeat

News, Opinion
Written by Silas Ezeugwu and James Kwen In the face of constitutional hurdles to the creation of new states in Nigeria’s democratic dispensations, the promoters of additional sub-nationals in the current dispensation remain undeterred. Consequently, there has been a surge in the agitations for the creation of more states, with numerous bills to amend the Constitution currently before the National Assembly. LEADERSHIP Sunday reports that state creation in Nigeria goes back to 1967, when the then head of state, Gen Yakubu Gowon, created 12 states out of the four regions in existence. His successor, Murtala Mohammed, created an additional seven…
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Jul
19
2024
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Dangote Refinery Substandard, Unlicensed – NMDPRA

Dangote Refinery Substandard, Unlicensed – NMDPRA

Economy, News
By Hadiza Suleman The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, says the standard of petroleum products refined by the Dangote Refinery is inferior to imported ones. NIMDPRA further downplayed petroleum products refined by Watersmith, Aradel, and other modular refineries. The chief executive of NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, said this in a recent interview with journalists, a video of which was published by TVC. Mr Ahmed debunked reports that some elements within the oil and gas sector were trying to scuttle the Dangote Refinery. He said the 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery had not been issued an operational licence by NMDPRA. According…
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Jul
18
2024
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BREAKING: Tinubu Endorses N70,000 Minimum Wage

BREAKING: Tinubu Endorses N70,000 Minimum Wage

BREAKING, News
By Jonathan Okpanachi President Bola Tinubu, Thursday, approved N70,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. Tinubu announced the minimum wage during a meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Bayo Onanuga, presidential aide, disclosed this in a statement. Details shortly….
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Jul
17
2024
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Tinubu Ups 2024 Budget By N6.2trn, Writes NASS

Tinubu Ups 2024 Budget By N6.2trn, Writes NASS

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By Hadiza Suleman Nigerians President Bola Tinubu, Wednesday, sought the approval of the National Assembly to increase the 2024 budget by N6.2 trillion. Tinubu's letter was read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio on the floor of the Senate. The initial 2024 budget was N28.7trn. The letter read, “Pursuant to section 58 (2) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, I forward herewith the above named bills for consideration and passage by the Senate. “The appropriation act amendment bill seeks to amend the principal act to provide the sum of N3,200,000,000,000 for Renewed Hope Infrastructure Projects and…
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Jul
16
2024
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Failing Breath: DSS Denies Kanu Access To Doctor

Failing Breath: DSS Denies Kanu Access To Doctor

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By Johnson Nwankwo Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, is sick, according to his lead counsel, Barr Aloy Ejimakor. Ejimakor stated this via his X handle. He lamented that the operatives of the State Security Services refused Kanu to have access to his medical doctor following his worsening ailment. Ejimakor wrote, “Yesterday, during our visitation with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, we found him ill, with shortness of breath, low BP and general malaise. "For this reason, he requested to see his doctor and we submitted a letter in this regard. Today, the doctor arrived at the…
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Jul
16
2024
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Boycott Nationwide Protests, Ohanaeze Faction Urges Ndigbo

Boycott Nationwide Protests, Ohanaeze Faction Urges Ndigbo

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By Johnson Nwankwo A faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Tuesday, called on the Igbo to boycott the planned nationwide protest against some harsh policies of the Tinubu administration. The protest is scheduled from August 1st-10th, 2024. The faction, in a release signed by its secretary general, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said the participation of Ndigbo in the protest would be counter-productive as Ndigbo might be made sacrificial lambs. Isiguzoro reflected how Ndigbo fared during such protest in the past, and called for lessons to be learnt. He referred to the 17th April, 1978 Ali-Must-Go Protests, the 24th May, 1989 Anti-SAP Riots against…
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