Speaker 8th Enugu Assembly Appoints Principal Officers, Sets Up Ad hoc Committee

The Speaker of the 8th Enugu State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Ugwu Callistus Uche on Tuesday announced 8 principal officers at the Hallowed Chamber; 4 members each from Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). While the Majority Leader, Johnson Samuel Anih is of the Labour Party, the Minority Leader, Iloabuchi Aniagu is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party. Others are Jude Chukwudi Udefuna (LP) Deputy Majority Leader; Deputy Minority Leader- Jane Chinwendu...

Nine Illegal Refineries Uncovered In Bayelsa State

Nine illegal refineries sites commonly called ‘Kpofire’ in local parlance have been uncovered in three communities in Bayelsa State. The communities are Okordia, Zarama, Biseni in Yenagoa Local Government Area, and the boundary communities of Ibelebiri and Otuege(Agba) in Ogbia Local Government Area of the State. The uncovered a total of nine illegal refineries sites with a combined total daily production estimated to be more than one million barrels per day (bpd). The discovery was made...

Meta to launch Twitter’s rival app, Threads on Thursday

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, plans to launch a Twitter-rivalling micro-blogging app called Threads on Thursday, July 6. Already, Threads is available for pre-order on the Apple app store. “Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” the description on the app store reads. Described as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app”, Threads has a similar appearance to Twitter. This...

National Assembly gets principal officers

President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has announced the names of the principal officers for the tenth Senate. The principal officers, named on Tuesday, emerged by consensus. The majority leadership of the Senate, as announced by the Senate President are Opeyemi Bamidele (Ekiti State – APC), majority leader; David Umahi (Ebonyi State – APC), deputy majority leader; Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno State – APC), majority whip and Lola Ashiru (Kwara State – APC), deputy...

Abia State government launches digital tax payment system for transporters, traders

Governor Alex Otti of Abia State, on Monday, launched a new digital tax system that would promote transparency in the collection of tax and make tax payments seamless for transporters and traders. In a statement on Tuesday, Kazie Uko, the chief press secretary to the Governor, said the digital tax system also integrates a free medical insurance scheme for all commercial vehicle drivers and riders of tricycles (Keke) and motorcycles (Okada). Speaking at the launch,...

Governor Kefas Of Taraba State Imposes 24 Hours Curfew On Karim Town

Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has imposed 24 hours curfew on Karim town, the headquarters of Karim Lamido Local Government Area (LGA), and its environs with effect from July 2, 2023, following renewed communal conflicts in parts of the local government area. 50 people were reportedly killed while several houses were burnt as communal clashes rocked Karim Lamido Local Government in the State. In a statement, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Yusuf Sanda...

President Tinubu Rejects EU Report On 2023 Elections

Nigerian President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has rejected the European Union’s Electoral Observer Mission report on the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. President Tinubu described the final report as a product of a poorly done desk job that relied heavily on few persons. President Tinubu explained that there are many reasons to believe the negative report was based on the views of fewer than 50 observers, and was merely to sustain the same premature contents in the...

JAMB score controversy: Anambra govt institutes panel of inquiry

The Government of Anambra State has instituted a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 16 years old student of Anglican Girls secondary school in Nnewi had earlier been announced to have scored 362 as the highest. JAMB however in a press release on Sunday night dismissed her result as fake, saying it was manipulated, and that she would be prosecuted...

2023 election: APC, PDP, LP disagree over the accuracy of EU election observers’ report

There is a controversy between the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the two main opposition parties: the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, over the European Union Elections Observation Mission, EU-EOM, final report on the 2023 polls, particularly the presidential election of February 25. It was earlier reported that the EU-EOM presented its final report on the 2023 polls to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National...

JAMB exposes candidate who inflated 2023 UTME score from 249 to 362

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidate who gained popularity for allegedly scoring 362 in this year’s UTME manipulated her result To celebrate Mmesoma and motivate other students to be studious, Innocent Chukwuma, founder of Innoson Motors, awarded a N3 million scholarship to her. However, in a statement on Sunday, Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s head of media and publicity, said Mmesoma used “some funny...

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