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By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC), service chiefs in Oyo State, Board of O’dua Investment Company and the Seriki Hausawa of Oyo State, on Thursday visited the governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, over the demise of his brother, Engr. Sunday Makinde. They visited the governor separately. Obasanjo, who got to the Ikolaba home of Gov. Makinde about 7.20 a.m. in company with the Director-General (DG), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Dr. Simeon Ehui, and his team, expressed condolences to him, urging the governor…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State government has expressed willingness to collaborate with traditional rulers in the fight against insecurity and criminality in the state. This was even as the government said it had slated February 13, 2025 for the launch of the State Security Trust Fund (ESSTF) aimed at mobilizing resources in cash and kind from both public and private corporate organizations as well as well-meaning individuals, to strengthen security in the state. These were made known by the Chairman of Board of Trustees of ESSTF, Dr Ike Chioke, during a stakeholders consultative meeting with the State Traditional Rulers…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointment of Ali Abdullahi Isa as acting Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Zulum's Special Adviser on Media, Dauda Iliya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, January 30. Isa, who hails from Biu Local Government Area (LGA) of southern part of Borno State, started his career as an Audit Assistant in 1991, rising to the rank of Chief Administrative Officer (Audit) and was posted to Government House as Assistant Director of Administration in 2017. "He was the Director of Research and Statistics at…

By Okwudiri Okafor, Umuahia Abia State Government has kicked off the distribution of 53 transformers it procured for various communities across the South-Eastern state. The move is part of its policy of ensuring rapid socio-economic transformation of communities and boost industrialization so as generate greater wealth among the citizenry. Already, Aba, the commercial hub of the South-East, has for long now enjoyed regular power supply,provided by a private firm and facilitated by the state government's provision of a conducive investment environment, even as attention shifts to electrifying the rural areas. Speaking while distributing the first phase of the transformers to…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Relief has come for injured victims of the January 25,2025 Enugu tanker explosion incident as Director-General (DG), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs Zubaida Umar, visited them in hospitals within Enugu metropolis. At least 21 persons lost their lives in the fire while many others sustained different degrees of burns and are battling for life in hospitals. Umar led top management staff of the agency from its Abuja NEMA headquarters on the visit. It was a joyous occasion too as they came bearing sundry relief materials for the victims. At National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu, the DG…

By Felix Durumbah It was a show of shame at the Abuja National Secretariat of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday, January 29, as a free-for-all broke out between rival supporters of two party titans jostling for the position of National Secretary of the opposition party. Passers-by were obviously embarrassed by the eye sore for a political party bidding to take over power amid the acclaimed poor performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as fists flew,voices rang out in high tones,dresses were rumpled with shoving and pushing, and strings of curses hurled in the generally despicable atmosphere…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Enugu State Government has caused the arrest of a man, Mr. Sunday Echegi, who chopped off the hand of his wife, Chinonso Loveth. The government has also moved the wife to a top hospital in the state capital for proper medical care even as an angry wife of the State governor, Mrs Nkechinyere Mbah, has sought full dosage of justice in the matter. These were disclosed by the State Commissioner for Children, Gender Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Ngozi Enih, Tuesday, January 28. Mrs. Enih said that Echegi, who hails from Ibagwa Ani in Nsukka Local…

By our reporter One of the founding fathers of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Tuesday, January 28, took aim at the party, slamming it for not even being a one-man show but "a zero-man show." The attack, one of several in recent months by party men, signals rising discontent within the party in government. The former two-term governor (2015-2023) stated that he no longer recognizes the APC, saying none of the party's organs had met in the last two years. Almost two years ago, President Bola Tinubu,who belongs to…

By Okwudiri Okafor, Umuahia Abia State Government has assured restive judiciary staff that the state Governor, Alex Otti, is irrevocably committed to honouring all the terms of an agreement entered into with them on the heels of the workers' two-month industrial strike. Among others, the staff were demanding payment of arrears of enhanced salary structure. Speaking to journalists Tuesday, January 28, on the details of the weekly State Executive Council (SEC) meeting which held the previous day, the State Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu disclosed that all government officials whose mandate it is to effect the payment, are working…