Idoma Stakeholders Moves To End Security Challenges In Benue State

NewsNigeriaRegionsIdoma Stakeholders Moves To End Security Challenges In Benue State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)April 12, 2023

Disturbed with the incessant attacks on Benue state communities by suspected marauding herdsmen, His Royal Majesty, Och’Idoma Agaba-Idu Elaigwu John, and Chairman, Idoma Area Traditional Council in Otukpo Local Government Area (LGA) have summoned an emergency meeting held on Monday in Otukpo. The meeting of Idoma stakeholders resolved to set up a high-powered and expert committee to find a lasting solution to security challenges facing Benue state. According to a statement issued by Onuminya Samuel Odoba, Chief Palace Scribe and...

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Former Anambra State Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Passes on

NewsNigeriaPoliticsFormer Anambra State Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Passes on

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)April 12, 2023

Former Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju has passed on in the early hours of Tuesday, April 11, 2023. He died at 78 years old. The announcement of his demise was made by his son Cheta Chinwoke Mbadinuju. Late Mbadinuju hailed from Uli in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State and was governor of Anambra State from 1999 to 2003. When his party then, the PDP, failed to give him a return ticket,...

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#TinubuTheDrugDealer trends on Twitter as UberFacts reports Tinubu’s drug trafficking case

NewsNigeriaPolitics#TinubuTheDrugDealer trends on Twitter as UberFacts reports Tinubu’s drug trafficking case

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 11, 2023

The Nigerian Twitter space is agog as #TinubuTheDrugDealer trends following the publication of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu’s drug trafficking case by UberFacts. UberFacts, an online outlet that publishes random facts, on Monday, informed its 13.5 million followers on Twitter about Tinubu’s legal woes with the United States government in 1993 which made him forfeit $460,000 ill-gotten gains from heroin trafficking. In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court...

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2023 Elections:  Group berates Soyinka over Comment

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023 Elections:  Group berates Soyinka over Comment

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 11, 2023

…Tells Nigerians to boycott his  literary works A group, under the aegis of Free Nigeria Movement (FNM) has berated the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka over his comment on the 2023 general elections and has accused him of pursuing a selective witch-hunt instead of focusing on the real issues surrounding the elections. Recall that the group has been protesting for the past 21 days at the Unity Fountain, Abuja over alleged irregularities and manipulation of the...

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Christian Pilgrimage: Last batch of pilgrims returns to Nigeria- NCPC boss, says

NewsNigeriaPoliticsChristian Pilgrimage: Last batch of pilgrims returns to Nigeria- NCPC boss, says

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 11, 20231

Having completed its pilgrimage exercise, the last batch of pilgrims for the December 2022 Main pilgrimage exercise to Israel and Jordan has returned to the country   According to report, the batch was the 10th batch of pilgrims that participated in the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) December 2022 Main pilgrimage exercise, made up of pilgrims from Plateau, Ekiti,  Kwara, Osun, self-sponsored Pilgrims as well as Consulars.   The last batch of pilgrims departed Nigeria on...

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N20bn Payment Probe: northern youths tell NNPCL boss to step aside

NewsNigeriaPoliticsN20bn Payment Probe: northern youths tell NNPCL boss to step aside

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 11, 2023

…Warns of mass protest TheGroup Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Kolo Mele Kyari, has been told to  to step aside by The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) to allow for an unfettered probe by the House of Representatives into the payment of N20 billion to a ghost consultant. The group alleged that  the NNPC manipulated the fuel subsidy regime which according to it was seen during the acute fuel scarcity that...

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Top performing senators, reps members to be honored by stakeholders

NewsNigeriaPoliticsTop performing senators, reps members to be honored by stakeholders

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 11, 2023

Twenty lawmakers in the ninth National Assembly said to be Most Valuable Parliamentarians (MVPs) are set to be honoured by stakeholders ahead of the resumption of the tenth Assembly. According to a report, the lawmakers were gleaned from “an independent, thorough and unprecedented data-driven annual performance appraisals of the 469-member ninth National Assembly since its first anniversary in 2020,” are said to have made the semi-finalists based on their contributions to legislative strengthening and promotion...

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CAN President Urges Nigerians Not To Despair

NewsNigeriaPoliticsCAN President Urges Nigerians Not To Despair

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)April 11, 2023

The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Daniel Okoh, has urged Nigerians not to despair but to unite and keep hopes alive for a new beginning for Nigeria. In his Easter message, Okoh noted that Nigeria had faced many challenges ranging from insecurity and economic instability to social and political unrest in recent years, and urged Nigerians to extend a hand of love and kindness to the less privileged in the society.  “However,...

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Easter: Buhari, Tinubu, Obi, Atiku preach love, hope and unity

NewsNigeriaPoliticsEaster: Buhari, Tinubu, Obi, Atiku preach love, hope and unity

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)April 10, 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari and the President-elect, Bola Tinubu have felicitated with Christians on the occasion of Easter which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, urging them to imbibe the messages of love and hope that Christ’s death reflected. President Buhari’s and Tinubu’s messages were also reiterated by Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar who contested the last presidential election under the platform of the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party, respectively. In his Easter message,...

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‘Query your children’s wealth’ – Nonye Soludo

NewsNigeriaPolitics‘Query your children’s wealth’ – Nonye Soludo

PilotnewsApril 9, 2023

Mrs. Nonye Soludo, wife of Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo, has identified failure by most parents to question the ‘sudden’ source of wealth of their children, as one of the problems threatening today’s society. The governor’s wife, who spoke yesterday in Awka, expressed worry about parents’ abandonment of primary ethos of truth, honesty and principle in child raising, including moral inculcation and valued traditional etiquettes. “Such costly parental neglect has resulted in negativities bedevilling today’s...

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