The House of Representatives has resolved to probe the procurement process of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. The resolution was taken on Thursday following a motion moved by Austin Achado during plenary. It would be recalled that the controversial 700 km road is generating controversy, particularly the demolition of structures along the right of way of…
Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has expressed concern over the disruption in electricity supply caused by the alleged vandalization of four transmission line towers along the Jos-Gombe 330kV line. The disruption which occurred on 22 April 2024, has left the state in total blackout for almost three weeks. The governor, in a press briefing held…
The House of Representatives on Thursday directed the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to halt the implementation of the cybercrime levy in compliance with the provisions of the cybercrime Act. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Minority Leader Kingsley Chinda, PDP Rivers. Chinda said section 44 (2a) of…
The Ogun State Police Command has detained a 71-year-old landlord, identified as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old daughter at Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The septuagenarian was caught having sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl in the house bathroom. According to Daily Trust, the minor, whose…
Former Senate President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Adolphus Wabara, has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to address the ongoing crisis in Rivers State. In a statement on Thursday, Wabara urged the Nigerian leader to call his appointee, the Minister of the Federal…
An All Progressives Congress, APC, stalwart and former presidential aide, Okoi Obono-Obla, has stated that the acting chairman of the party in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, lacks the powers to ask the 27 APC lawmakers in the state House of Assembly to impeach the sitting governor, Sim Fubara. Okoi Obono-Obla, a former personal assistant to…
A bill for an act to upwardly review salaries, allowances and other fringe benefits of those working in the Nigerian judiciary has passed a second reading in the upper legislative chamber on Thursday. The executive bill, sponsored by the Majority Leader of the Senate, Michael Bamidele Opeyemi scaled second reading after he highlighted the general…
In less than three weeks of a ‘jollof rice debate’ by two former African Presidents, His Excellencies John Dramani Mahama of Ghana and Ian Khama of Botswana in the African most rated luxury hotel, ‘The Delborough Lagos’, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne had also have his memorable experience in the Lagos…
The Chairman/CEO of Chisco Transport, Chief Chidi Anyaegbu, has commended the Dr. Peter Mbah Administration in Enugu State for its effort to reposition the transport and logistics sector in the state, including the administration’s plans to build modern transport interchanges in various parts of the state. Anyaegbu noted that as a political leader, who came…
The Ministry of Defence, MoD, on Wednesday handed over 20 newly acquired Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) to the Defence Headquarters to enhance the professional capabilities of the Nigerian Armed Forces troops. This is contained in a statement by Ibrahim Kana, Permanent Secretary of the MoD in Abuja on Thursday. NAN reports that the APCs were…
