The Enugu State Government in line with her zero tolerance for dormant assets in the state has signed a hundred billion naira deal with Pragmatic Palms Limited to resuscitate the moribund Enugu State United Palm Products Limited, UPPL. United Palm Products Limited is one of the agricultural and agro-industrialization initiatives of the late Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara. The company and its assets have lain fallow for many years hence...

As of Friday, May 10, 2024, the enrollment for the National Identity Number (NIN) has so far reached 107,338,044. The Director General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Abisoye Coker-Odusote, who disclosed this during a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, said the figure reflected 13.2 million increase from 104 million recorded in December 2023. The NIMC boss stressed that the commission will expedite action to ensure that all Nigerians were enrolled within record-time,...

…Says Rivers Belongs To PDP Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George has sought the intervention of elders and stakeholders of the party in the political crisis rocking Rivers State. Speaking in Lagos on Friday, George also warned President Bola Tinubu not to treat with levity the threat by some lawmakers in the state House of Assembly to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. While insisting that the oil-bearing state belongs...

…Says Gov’s Declaration That Rivers Assembly Doesn’t Exist Is Affront To Constitution The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told Governor Simi Fubara of Rivers State not to abrogate the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, pointing out that it’s an affront of the constitution for the Governor to declare that Rivers State House of Assembly doesn’t exist. The APC in a press conference on Friday addressed by Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary of...

In compliance with President Bola Tinubu’s order to decongest custodial centers in the country, the Chief Judge of Nasarawa State, Justice Aisha Bashir-Aliyu, has freed 167 inmates across the five custodial centers in the state. The Chief Judge pardoned the inmates during an official visit to the custodial centres in Lafia, Wamba, Nasarawa and Keffi local government areas of the state. Justice Bashir-Aliyu rounding off a tour of Correctional facilities in Lafia on Thursday said...