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,...

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...

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...

The Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria is known for their entrepreneurial spirit which has been wrongly interpreted as the ‘love of money’ by other ethnic groups. The enterprising skills of the Igbos make them migrate in droves away from their cultural enclave in southeastern Nigeria to other parts of Nigeria and beyond where they establish different lines of business ventures, which turn out to be successful in a few years. In recent times, the entrepreneurial...

President-elect Bola Tinubu and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, washed their dirty linens in public over the repayment of the cost of some federal road projects undertaken by the Rivers State government. The Governor hosted the President-elect in his state on Wednesday for the commissioning of the Rumuokwuta–Rumuola flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. In his speech during the event, Wike reeled off some projects embarked upon by his administration which ought to...

The Governor of Anambra State Professor Chukwuma Soludo has sworn in Christian Udechukwu as the new Commissioner for Industry. Mr. Evarist Ubah was also sworn-in as Special Adviser to the Governor on Trade and Markets. The swearing-in ceremony which took place at the Executive Chambers, Government House, Awka was witnessed by members of Anambra State Executive Council. By the ceremony, the duo were officially inducted as members of the Council. Reeling out his charge to...

The senator representing Anambra South senatorial district Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has made a good case to the senate at plenary today, for further consideration of his bill; “A Bill for the Establishment of the National Institute for Security Studies Orumba South Anambra State”, by the senate. The Bill which was introduced to the 9th senate by Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, is one of more than a dozen bills that has been introduced to the senate by...