Ikpeazu Signs Bill Allowing Women to Inherit Properties into Law

NewsNigeriaPoliticsRegionsIkpeazu Signs Bill Allowing Women to Inherit Properties into Law

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 3, 2022

Women can now inherit properties in Abia State as the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Thursday signed the ‘female person inheritance of property’ bill into law. While assenting to the bill at the government house in Umuahia, the governor commended the House of Assembly for facilitating the passage of the bill, describing it as the most important legislation passed by the seventh assembly. Stressing that it had become unacceptable to continue “to treat women as...

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2023: UN Expresses Dissatisfaction Over Poor Participation of Women in Politics

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023: UN Expresses Dissatisfaction Over Poor Participation of Women in Politics

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)December 1, 2022

The United Nations (UN) has decried the low number of female candidates contesting in the 2023 general elections, describing the development as unacceptable. Speaking at a workshop on the promotion of women in politics organised by the Centre for Democracy Development (CDD) on Tuesday, the UN Women Programme Specialist, Generation Equality, Desmond Osemehenjie, said Nigeria scored low in the area of women’s participation in politics compared to other African countries. He said: “The women’s participation...

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Enugu State Govt. Allocates 36 plots of Land to 2015/2016 NPFL Winners

NewsNigeriaRegionsEnugu State Govt. Allocates 36 plots of Land to 2015/2016 NPFL Winners

Ije Ulasi (Regional Correspondent)November 30, 2022

Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi also approved a waiver of all land charges and immediate issuance of certificate of occupancy of the allocated plots of land to the players. The Ministry of Lands and Urban Development, Enugu calls on all the year 2015/2016 winners of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to collect their respective allocation letters to a plot of land each as approved by the State Government. The 36 Enugu Rangers International Football Club players...

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Ibadan Poly Bans Pregnant Students, Nursing Mothers from Staying in Hostels, Bringing Babies to Classroom

NewsNigeriaRegionsIbadan Poly Bans Pregnant Students, Nursing Mothers from Staying in Hostels, Bringing Babies to Classroom

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 30, 2022

The Polytechnic, Ibadan, also known as Poly Ibadan, has banned pregnant female students and nursing mothers from residing in the school hostel and nursing mothers from bringing babies to the classrooms. According to a notice signed by the institution’s governing council on behalf of the management on Tuesday, defaulters would be suspended for one semester. The school management also banned students from hugging publicly, sitting on the opposite sex’s laps in public and driving tinted...

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Fire Razes 14 Classes, 12 Offices In Tsangaya Boarding Pry Sch In Kano

NewsNigeriaRegionsFire Razes 14 Classes, 12 Offices In Tsangaya Boarding Pry Sch In Kano

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 30, 2022

Fire has razed a Tsangaya model boarding primary school, in Kiyawa village, of Bagwai local government area of Kano state, razing 14 classes, 12 offices from the administrative block, and 21 toilets by the inferno. Saminu Abdullahi, Public Relations Officer Kano State Fire Service explained that following a distress call received by the Bichi fire station from one Ghaddafi Sani, on arrival, the rescue team discovered that a building was engulfed by an inferno. ”We received...

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How to Evaluate a Lawmaker’s Performance

ColumnsOpinionPoliticsHow to Evaluate a Lawmaker’s Performance

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2022

Apparently, evaluating a lawmaker’s performance is one of the most difficult things for Nigerians to do. It appears most Nigerians do not know just how to say if a lawmaker has done well or has failed. The reason is that the expectations from an average lawmaker, state or National Assembly, are so high and often outside the scope of duty of lawmakers. Why the expectations are high is directly connected to the many needs of...

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“Don’t Travel to US, UK to Avoid Being Robbed”, FG Advises Nigerians

NewsNigeriaPoliticsUnited Kingdom“Don’t Travel to US, UK to Avoid Being Robbed”, FG Advises Nigerians

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 29, 2022

The federal government has raised alarm over the high rate of theft of valuables, including passports of Nigerians in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. “It has come to the attention of the government that Nigerian travellers to the US and some countries in Europe are having their belongings, especially money and international passports, stolen at an increasingly high rate,” the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, said at the fifth edition of...

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2023 election: Shun violence, thuggery, CAN tells Anambra youths

NewsNigeriaPolitics2023 election: Shun violence, thuggery, CAN tells Anambra youths

PilotnewsNovember 29, 2022

President of the Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWICAN), Amb. Belusochukwu Enwere, has warned youths to desist from violence and electoral violence in the forthcoming election. Enwere made the appeal during YOWICAN leadership Retreat at Christ Holy Church, Awka, saying the era of politicians using youths as thugs to snatch ballot boxes and cause violence was over. He clarified that CAN had not endorsed any presidential candidate and therefore warned against campaigning...

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Why Anambra Incumbent Senators Might Still Return in 2023

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsWhy Anambra Incumbent Senators Might Still Return in 2023

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)November 29, 2022

This might be the first time the three Anambra State senators are strong, firm and formidable, two months to the General Election. So far, not much effort is being put into unseating the three incumbent senators by the opposition and the three remains likely to be returned in February, 2023. Senator Uche Ekwunife of Anambra Central is poised to be returned in 2023. This also applies to Senator Stella Oduah of Anambra North and Senator...

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Adeleke suspends Osun SEIC chair, dethrones three monarchs

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAdeleke suspends Osun SEIC chair, dethrones three monarchs

Beloved John (Staff Writer)November 29, 2022

Ademola Adeleke, the Osun governor, has ordered the suspension of Segun Oladitan, the chairperson of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). Tesleem Igbalaye, secretary to the state government disclosed the development in a statement. According to him, the suspension of the OSIEC chairperson and members of the commission is hinged on alleged financial impropriety and abuse of office. “Gov. Adeleke has directed the immediate suspension of the Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral...

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