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Sep
04
2024
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NANS Divided On Sept 15 Nationwide Protest Over Fuel Price Hike

NANS Divided On Sept 15 Nationwide Protest Over Fuel Price Hike

Education, News
By Johnson Nwankwo The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it would mobilise its members for a nationwide protest in all the major cities in Nigeria, effective September 15, 2024. NANS said the protest was in response to the recent fuel price hike and the failure of the federal government to find a lasting solution to the attendant pains being faced by a majority of Nigerians. The body therefore demanded an immediate reversal of the fuel price hike. The notification has been sent to various security agencies, including the Nigerian Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigerian Security and…
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Sep
02
2024
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Release Nnamdi Kanu To Avert Looming Danger, Cleric Warns Tinubu

Release Nnamdi Kanu To Avert Looming Danger, Cleric Warns Tinubu

News
By Johnson Nwankwo Daniel Sunday Onuoha, founder of Peace of Yahweh Synagogue and Eastern Judaism, Monday, wrote to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to free the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, "to avoid the impending catastrophe waiting to occur". Onuoha stated this in an open letter he addressed to President Tinubu. He said Kanu is "a prophet of the most high God on a mission". Quoting him, "There is no need telling you the details of how Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was arrested/kidnapped by the previous administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The warning mandated to me…
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Sep
02
2024
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Tinubu To Launch 1,500 Renewed Hope Housing Units In Kano Soon

Tinubu To Launch 1,500 Renewed Hope Housing Units In Kano Soon

News
By Jonathan Okpanachi President Bola Tinubu will soon launch the 1,500 Renewed Hope housing units at Unguwar Rimi in Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, stated this while inspecting the new site for the second phase of the Kano City project on Sunday. Dangiwa said the president had approved the project and would personally inaugurate the groundbreaking ceremony soon. Quoting him, "This initiative marks a major expansion following the commencement of 500 housing units in Lambu, also within Tofa Local Government Area. “The Renewed Hope housing scheme is…
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Sep
01
2024
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‘Once A Vibrant Newspaper, The Chronicle Now Turning Into Rag-Sheet’ ●Dominic Kidzu Writes Gov. Otu On Keyu Edet

‘Once A Vibrant Newspaper, The Chronicle Now Turning Into Rag-Sheet’ ●Dominic Kidzu Writes Gov. Otu On Keyu Edet

Entertainment, Media
One-time General Manager of Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Mr. Dominic Kidzu has alerted Governor Bassey Otu on the continuing slide of the state newspaper, The Chronicle, saying the once-vibrant publication is fast turning into a rag-sheet.  In an open letter to the Governor, Kidzu called on Gov Otu to step in and reverse the ugly situation in the organisation where a retired admin staff was acting as the newspaper’s Editor-In-Chief.  Kidzu, former Press Secretary to the Governor of Cross River State, said the appointment of Miss Keyu Edet as the company's General Manager was bad enough, and her insistence…
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Sep
01
2024
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As The Chronicle Newspapers Faces Imminent Death, Dominic Kidzu Writes Gov. Bassey Otu On Keyu Edet

As The Chronicle Newspapers Faces Imminent Death, Dominic Kidzu Writes Gov. Bassey Otu On Keyu Edet

Media
One-time General Manager of Cross River State Newspaper Corporation, Mr. Dominic Kidzu has alerted Governor Bassey Otu on the continuing slide of the state newspaper, The Chronicle, and the risk of its imminent death if actions are not taken to resolve the crisis in the organisation.  In an open letter to the Governor, Kidzu called on Gov Otu to step in and reverse the ugly situation in the organisation where a retired admin staff was acting as the newspaper’s Editor-In-Chief.  Kidzu, former Press Secretary to the Governor of Cross River State, said the appointment of Miss Keyu Edet as the…
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Sep
01
2024
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N70, 000 Minimum Wage Begins In Ebonyi In September

N70, 000 Minimum Wage Begins In Ebonyi In September

News
By Johnson Nwankwo Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has announced this September as the commencement of the N70, 000 minimum wage in the state. Nwifuru announced this during the grand finale of the Ojiji Izhi New Yam Festival 2024. He said he had directed concerned government authorities to draft out modalities for the payment of the new minimum wage. He frowned at the way government projects awarded as contracts to prominent leaders of the state were handled. He mentioned the housing estates at Izo Autonomous Community in Ishielu Local Government as one of such. He ordered the state…
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Aug
31
2024
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Lagos Govt Commences Probe Into Akwa Ibom Police Commissioner’s Death

Lagos Govt Commences Probe Into Akwa Ibom Police Commissioner’s Death

News
By Johnson Nwankwo Gov Babajide Sanwolu of Lagos State has ordered investigations into the death of the commissioner of police, Akwa Ibom State, CP Waheed Ayilara. The CP died after a prostrate cancer surgery on Wednesday. It was conducted at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Thursday. Lagos Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, Saturday, said a medical panel had been constituted to probe the death of Ayilara. According to him, “In the light of the circumstances surrounding his passing, happening some hours after an apparently uneventful surgery, the ministry of health, following a directive from Mr Governor, has constituted a…
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Aug
30
2024
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ASUU Resolves To Proceed On Strike Action At NDU

ASUU Resolves To Proceed On Strike Action At NDU

Education, News
By Jonathan Okpanachi The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Niger Delta University (NDU) chapter, has concluded to embark on industrial strike action. ASUU, through its chairman, Comrade Oyinkepreye Lucky Bebeteidoh, said the decision was informed by the refusal of the state government to respond to many moves to seek audience with the visitor of the institution, Gov Douye Diri, on the challenges affecting members and the university in general. Bebeteidoh told newsmen at the secretariat of the ASUU at the NDU campus in Wilberforce island in Ammassoma that the congress of the union resolved to initiate the process leading…
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Aug
28
2024
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NCC: September 14, 2024 Is Final Deadline for NIN-SIM Linkage Compliance

NCC: September 14, 2024 Is Final Deadline for NIN-SIM Linkage Compliance

BREAKING, Economy
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced September 14 this year as deadline for full compliance with the NIN-SIM linkage policy. It has therefore directed all Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to complete the mandatory verification and linkage of SIMs to NINs by that date. In a statement signed by its Director of Public Afdairs, Reuben Muoka, the Commission said significant progress has be recorded in the Federal Government’s 2020 policy to link all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) to National Identity (NINs). To date, over 153 million SIMs have been successfully linked to a NIN, reflecting an impressive compliance rate of 96 per…
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Aug
28
2024
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Video Demanding Poisoning Of Yorubas, Product Of Ethnic Bigot – Ohanaeze

Video Demanding Poisoning Of Yorubas, Product Of Ethnic Bigot – Ohanaeze

News
By Johnson Nwankwo Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Wednesday, described the video calling for food poisoning of Yoruba and Benin natives as a product of "a depressed drowning ethnic bigot, obsessed by the negative side of history and unflinching satanic in orchestration." The viral video, @Anyi_anambra on tiktok, is asking the Igbo to put poison in the foods of Yoruba and Benin people, with a lady character promising "to encourage other Igbo to poison Yoruba and Benin people”. She urged Ndigbo to "get heart of wickedness and to start poisoning Yoruba and Edo; to put ota pia-paia, eat and die sniper; I…
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