Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has resigned his membership of All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he will soon announce his next line of action. Obaseki, who made his position known to State House correspondents after visiting the Presidential Villa, on Tuesday said his resignation from the ruling party followed his disqualification from the June 22 APC primaries. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Obaseki was disqualified by the APC’s screening committee over alleged...
Resident Doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), on Monday, pulled out from the strike embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NARD announced its strike on Sunday citing shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and poor remuneration for members as reasons for the strike. Dr Samuel Ameh, the chairman of ARD in UPTH, told newsmen that the branch would not join...
U.S.-based Congolese fashion designer Anifa Mvuemba was excited about debuting her fashion line, Hanifa, at this year’s New York Fashion Week. But when her show was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mvuemba got creative. The 29-year-old designer held a virtual show on May 22 for her latest collection called ‘Pink Label Congo’. The 3D animated event was watched by tens of thousands of people who streamed it on her Hanifa Instagram Live page. “We...
The 2021 Oscars ceremony was moved to April from February on Monday due to the havoc caused in the movie industry by the coronavirus pandemic. The ceremony for film’s highest honours will take place on April 25, 2021, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a statement. It had originally been scheduled for Feb. 28. The coronavirus epidemic shut down movie theatres worldwide in mid-March and brought production of films to a...
The murder of George Floyd by a policeman and the ensuing protests against racism and police brutality in the United States have ignited similar protests in Europe. Large crowds, especially in the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, are demanding public acknowledgment of the links among slavery, European colonialism, and contemporary racism. European protesters, perhaps in solidarity with Americans, have borrowed anti-police rhetoric. But, with the exception of the French, by and large, European protestors tie racial...
Gun-wielding gunmen suspected to be Kidnappers were reported to have whisked away the Vice Chairman of Shelleng Local Government Area of Adamawa state Mr. Kama Lazarus Bakta. An official of the local council said that the Vice Chairman was kidnapped in the early hours of this Tuesday in his hometown, Bakta. ” So sad , the vice has been kidnaped by the kidnapers today about 1:20am of 16th June 2020 a black day. Hon.Kama Lazarus...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has on Monday said that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum is a toothless bulldog. He said that the Nigerian governors had turned beggars since 2015 that the All Progressives Congress took over the leadership of the forum. According to him, “Before 2015, the Governors’ Forum used to be very powerful but the APC killed it because they were protecting the interest of the ruling party. “During one of the rerun...
The All Progressives Congress’ National Working Committee led by its Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Monday met with the Presidency to counter the moves of some governors, who have begun to change the decision of the party on their Edo State counterpart, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. The committee arrives at the Aso Rock at about 4:30pm for a meeting with the President’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari. Oshiomhole in an interview with the State House...
“A kingdom can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice” ──Usman bn fodio In 2015 general elections one of the major promises the APC used during its campaign was the restoration of security in the northeast which at the time was the worry of every single individual in the country. Five years later, the situation has not improved, it has in fact escalated and extends to many other regions like northwest and...
You may call him a Prophet of doom, but this pastor, Prophet Paul Abam of Itigidi, Abi LGA in Cross River may have been duping his people with fraudulent revelations until his antics were miraculously exposed. WAP’s I-Witness-Reporter had initially informed our newsroom that Prophet Abam had been setting his victims up by burying charms or other scary collage of figurines in their premises, then turn around and uproot them as prophetic-powered miracles for money. ...
