Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has warned the Federal Government with the connivance of the National Assembly with the intention of returning the National Water Resources Bill rejected in 2018 by the Nigerian public. Media report has it that the House of Representatives on July 23, 2020, referred to the National Water Resource Bill 2020to a “committee of whole,” for third reading and passage. In a statement titled, ‘MLK’s Mighty Stream of Consciousness’ on Thursday,...

The President General of the Ohanaze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has vowed that the group will unearth the circumstances surrounding the killings of the Igbo youths by security agencies at Emene-Enugu, last Sunday. The President General speaking for the first time after the bloodbath said that Ohanaeze kept studying the situation silently all the while to gather proper information before making any comment on it. He said he decided to break the silence following...

The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has banned underaged herders’ activities in the state. He warned that any underaged herder caught rearing cattles in the State will henceforth be arrested and the Chief Herdsman in charge of the underage will also be arrested and prosecuted. The Governor said this in a communique issued at the end of an expanded Security Council Meeting held at the International Conference Centre in Abakaliki. Leaders and members of the...