Rivers State Government has commended the Supreme Court for issuing an injunction to stop the Federal Government from ceding 12 oil wells from the state to Imo State. The Commissioner for Finance and Planning, Isaac Kamalu, said Rivers State Government filed the suit at the Supreme Court against the FGN and its agencies from carrying…
NAFDAC Approves Three More COVID-19 Vaccines
The National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Thursday approved three COVID-19 vaccine variants for use in Nigeria. These are Moderna (Rovi Pharma Madrid, Spain); AstraZeneca AZD1222 [SK Bioscience Co Limited (Republic of Korea)]; and Sputnik V (Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russia). In a statement, Prof. Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, director…
Gbajabiamila Blows Hot and Cold on Media Bill
Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, appears in a dilemma over the obnoxious Media Bill pending in the green chamber to cage the Nigerian media and bring it under the control of the minister of information. He spoke from both sides of his mouth on Monday, July 12, at an event organized by…
Peterside, APC Chieftain Fault Wike’s Stewardship Account
A former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dakuku Peterside, and a former Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Chris Finebone, have dismissed the account of stewardship rendered by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Monday as incomplete and misleading. Both Peterside and Finebone, who were responding to…
I’ll Miss My Mother’s Advice, Monthly Prayer Text Messages, Aig- Imoukhuede, Ex-Access Bank MD
It was all eulogies on Tuesday for late Pastor (Mrs.) Emily Okhenren Aig- Imoukhuede, mother of the former managing director of Access Bank, Aigbovbioise Aig-Imoukhuede, as the children held a service of songs for her in her home town, Sabongida-Ora, Owan West local government area of Edo State where the presiding priest, Reverend Augustine Ehigiemetor…
Turning the Searchlight on Rape
National Council for Arts and Culture in a quest to stop rising rape cases in Nigeria, organised one-day training for journalists in Abuja. Rape and professional reporting of rape took the centre stage in Abuja on Wednesday, July 7, when the National Council of Arts and Culture, NCAC, and OmniMedia organised a one- day training…
The Senate Rejects the Nomination of Lauretta Onochie as INEC commissioner
At last the Nigerian Senate, Tuesday, rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Lauretta Onochie as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This followed the submission of the screening report by the Committee on INEC during plenary, recommending the rejection of the nominee.Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the committee, said Onochie’s nomination was…
Hope Dims as Edo Police Hit Brick Wall In MFM Pastor’s Whereabouts
…Alerts Wife in SMS Abductors Hired Assassins, Not Kidnappers Is Dan Osato Osamwonyi, a Pastor with Mountain of Fire Ministry, (MFM) Prayer City Region 66, Benin City, Edo State, who was abducted somewhere along Sapele Road over a month and a half ago dead or alive? This is the maze men of the state Police…
Two Weird Sisters Live with Mother’s Decomposed Corpse for 9 Days
…Claim it was in Obedience to the Lord’s Instruction Residents of a neighbourhood in Benin City, Edo State capital, were shocked at the weekend to discover the decomposed corpse of a 78-year-old woman in her apartment kept there by her two daughters nine days after her death. Strangely, the two women, Grace Osagede, 60, and…
Rivers Government House Jetty Displaces Port Harcourt Slum
Parts of Marine Base, one of the major waterfront slum settlements in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital may give way for the expansion of the Government House Jetty and Governor’s Lounge, according to Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. The governor gave the indication on Wednesday during the flag-off of the Government House Jetty sited…
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