[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The immediate past Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, IUO Edo State, and a tenured professor of Comparative Politics, University of Ibadan, Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae, has been appointed as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The news of Osaghae’s appointment was shared by Obajide…
Security Scare: Rivers Stops Meeting of Igbo Communities
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Rivers State Government has stopped a proposed meeting of Igbo communities in Rivers State, citing security reasons. In a statement, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, said security agencies had been directed to ensure that the meeting called by the United Igbo Communities for Oyigbo on Saturday did not hold. Nsirim…
UPDATE: Edo 2020 NSF Continues as Presidency Intervenes Between Host State and Sports Ministry Over Funding
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] As LOC Locks Offices of MOC Officials at Games Venue. The presidency has intervened to save the ongoing 20th National Sports Festival, tagged Edo 2020, from coming into an abrupt and unceremonious end as a result of face-off between the host state, Edo, and the Federal Ministry of Youths and Sports over lingering…
Cash Strapped Edo Govt Threatens Shutdown of Sports Meet As FG Withholds Support
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The ongoing National Sports Festival being hosted by Edo State may have run into a hitch and could be shut down unceremoniously, if the federal government fails to salvage the situation before 12 noon on Thursday. A member of the media and communication sub-committee for the sports fiesta, tagged Edo 2020, Musa Ebomhiana,…
Governor Uzodimma Disagrees with Police on Brains Behind Imo Violence
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Says Attacks Sponsored by Aggrieved Politicians to Bring Down APC Govt. Embattled Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma Wednesday night blamed two successive attacks on public infrastructure and government facilities in Owerri, the state capital, on some aggrieved politicians whom he said were trying to paint the picture of lack of governance in the…
Beyond Okonjo-Iweala’s Ankara Fabrics and Signature Headgear
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Our own Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian, nay African pride, and toast of the international community, assumed duty on Monday March 1, 2021 as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO the global trade referee. It is historic, epochal and a humongous milestone. Okonjo-Iweala shattered the glass ceiling to smithereens to emerge…
Certificate Forgery: APC’s Attempt to Swindle Edo People Through Back Door, Says Obaseki
….Hails Appeal Court Judgment Exonerating Him. [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has hailed the Appeal Court judgment which cleared him of allegation of certificate forgery preferred against him by the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the Edo 2020 gubernatorial election describing it as “a victory for democracy, equity, fairness and justice”. The Appeal…
100 Days in Office: Edo APC Upbraids Obaseki for Marking Day in Delta State
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Edo State on Tuesday called out the state governor, Godwin Obaseki for choosing to mark the first 100 days of his second term in neighbouring Delta State to commission what it described as white elephant projects on behalf of another state governor, stating that the governor had…
₦50 billion Floating Drydock Acquired by NIMASA 2018 Abandoned, Marine Engineers Cry Out
…Say Facility Almost Derelict. [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The Association of Marine Engineers and Surveyors, AMES, has raised the alarm over the seeming abandonment of ₦50 billion Floating Drydock acquired in 2018 by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA but yet to be deployed for the purpose for which it was acquired. A floating drydock,…
No-Work, No-Pay Policy: Edo Teachers Lament Cut in Salaries, As Some School Heads May be Dropped
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Apparently making good its threat to sanction its teachers who went on a strike action called by the Edo State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT by invoking its no-work, no-pay policy, primary school teachers in the state are lamenting the cut in their February salaries. The strike, which lasted five…
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