The Nigerian Senate in a fresh bid to ensure Local Government Council Financial Autonomy will this week deliberate on a bill that will give full legal backing to the financial autonomy for Local Government Areas in Nigeria. The bill was sponsored by Senator Rose Oko, A PDP senator from Cross River State will abrogates the…
NCDC also submitted that since the outbreak of Lassa fever in 2019,160 deaths have been recorded so far and the predominant age group affected is people with the age bracket of 21 to 40 years. However,the World Health Organization (WHO) have advised people to prevent the disease by promoting hygienic conditions which will help in…
By J M Agu, Esq., (CIArb) Since the news of the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar filtered our political space, ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to His Excellency, Senator Chris Ekpenyong of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and conduct a rerun…
Renamo,the main opposition party in the on-going presidential election in Mozambique has called for cancellation of the presidential polls because the electoral process was characterized by violence and fraud. Renamo’s general Secretary ,Mr Andres Magibiri had on Saturday described the presidential election as being married by irregularities and that it failed to correspond to the…
The president of Turkey,Recep Tayyip Erdogan had promised to crush the heads of Kurdish fighters if they fail to withdraw from a planned safe zone area in the northern Syria. Mr Erdogan made this assertion when he was speaking in a televised event in the central Turkish province of Kayseri on Saturday. From the available…
Donald Trump,the President of United States has abandoned plans to host next year’s G7 Summit ,a meeting between Canada,France ,Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and the US after bipartisan criticisms. The US president had planned to host the Summit at his Miami golf course but has to change his mind owing to criticisms. Mr Trump confirms…
The Barcelona and Argentina Superstar and current men’s player of the year,Lionel Messi said it will be difficult to bring back the Brazilian and Paris St Germain forward,Neymar Junior back to camp Nou. Messi said this while intereacting with newsmen at Metro 95.1in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to him,the circumstances surrounding the acrimonious departure of…
Atiku questioned the rationale behind such gestures considering the fact that the governor has been owing civil servants in the state for some months now. He made this known on his Twitter handle,saying that such act could best be described as missed priorities. ‘Someone who refused to pay workers salary is one buying expensive cars…
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development ,Hadija Sadiya Umar-Farouq has assured the victims of fire incident at Ochanja market, Onitsha,Anambra State that the Federal Government through her ministry will work assiduously with the state to forestall future occurrence of fire outbreaks. Umar-Farouq made this known when she visited the scene of…
As residents of Onitsha,Anambra State were still recollectiing themselves from the loss of lives and properties occasioned by an inferno barely 48 hours at Ochanja market,another fuel tanker has exploded along Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in the wee hours of Friday. The incident was reported to have occured at about 4:00am on Friday when a fuel laden…