Adamawa State Governor, Ahamdu Umaru Fintiri has sworn in Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman as the first female substantive Chief Judge of the State who has been in an acting capacity since 2022. Also sworn in are Khadi Ibrahim Sudi and Audu Balami as State Grand Khadi Sharia Court of Appeal and President Customary Court of Appeal respectively. Their swearing-in followed a recommendation by the National Judicial Council and confirmation by the Adamawa State House of Assembly....
…NWC zoning to South-South justified Following the zoning of Senate President position to the South-South and the subsequent nomination of Senator Godswill Akpabio by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ali Ndume has applauded the party leadership for what he called a job well done, even as he warned his colleagues not to collect money from any aspirant. Ndume speaking during an interview on Monday said that he was disappointed...
….As NWC zones NASS Leadership The immediate past member of Board of Trustee (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ken Mordi has commended the nomination of Senator Godswill Akpabio for Senate President of the10th Senate by the National working Committee (NWC) of the party, even as he pointed out that the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State was picked because of his commitment and loyalty to the party. Speaking to our reporter on...
Police operatives serving in Abakpa Division of the Enugu State Police Command working with personnel of the Neighborhood Watch Group have arrested 3 male suspects for vandalizing the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company transformers and other public assets. The Police Public Relations officer DSP Daniel Ndukwe in the Command’s official twitter handle signed and dated 7th May 2023 state, “On 30th April 2023 at about 4am, three male suspects namely Chidera Eze aged 25, Ifesi Agbo...
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25, presidential election, has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) for an order allowing live broadcast of the day to day proceedings of the court. The former Vice President is one of the petitioner’s challenging the victory of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and the President-elect in that election. Atiku and the PDP in an application...
Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs has expressed the need for the British colonists to return the loot taken away from African countries. Akinyemi, during an interview on Monday, stated that King Charles III should take a view different from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II and address issues of slavery, loot and reparation. Akinyemi said, “The key issue that will determine the British’s relationship with the rest of the world, with the commonwealth,...
Max Air with 144 passengers on board had crashed landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Sunday after it experienced a tyre burst. According to some passengers on board the aircraft who took off from Yola said the plane lost one of the tyres after take off while the second tyre burst into flames after landing in Abuja. The management of Max Air in a statement said the aircraft experienced two tyre bursts...
The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader. Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja. Although 34 Members-Elect of the Party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables...
A student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS) Nnewi, Anambra state, Ejikeme Joy, has emerged as the overall best student in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with an aggregate score of 362. Our correspondent noted the breakdown of Miss Ejikeme’s scores to include: English Language – 98% Physics – 89% Biology – 94% Chemistry – 81% Reacting, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Charles Soludo, Christian Aburime, on Saturday,...
The Managing Director and CEO of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, Mr. Umar-Sadiq, say Enugu will serve as a site for NSIA’s first oncology centre in the South East. The MD stated this at the official transfer of the Enugu State Medical Diagnostic Centre to NSIA for rehabilitation, upgrading, and re-operationalization of the health facility to a comprehensive diagnostic and oncology (cancer) treatment centre in line with NSIA’s healthcare expansion programme. “NSIA is excited...
