A group, Centre for Human Rights and Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (CHRPTP) has urged attorneys-general in states of the federation to facilitate the domestication of federal gender-based laws in their various states to eliminate the alarming prevalence of rape. Executive Director of the centre, John Tsok, in a statement issued to journalists […]
P eoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State chapter, yesterday said leadership failure was responsible for rising insecurity, corruption and dearth of Infrastructure in the country. The party said Nigeria was presently lacking right leadership in the country with insecurity as its major attendant effect. Chairman of the party, Onyekachi Nwebonyi who […]
C ommissioners and other top government officials in Ebonyi State have embarked on voluntary testing to ascertain their coronavirus pandemic status. Also, some media practitioners and men of the state police command as well as other security officials in the state have also done same. The voluntary testing was a result […]
C ommissioners and other top government officials in Ebonyi State have embarked on voluntary testing to ascertain their coronavirus pandemic status. Also, some media practitioners and men of the state police command as well as other security officials in the state have also done same. The voluntary testing was a […]
T he Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu, has declared that the restart report for airlines and aviation industry will be submitted to the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 by tomorrow. Nuhu appealed to stakeholders that the sector is pretty close to a restart with plans to announcing […]
F ormer Secretary to Edo State Government (SSG), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday, emerged governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after he was declared winner of the party’s primaries held across the 192 wards in the 18 local government areas of the state. Ize-Iyamu is the anointed candidate of the suspended national chairman […]
N umber of oil firms jostling for oil blocks hit 76 at the weekend as the race for 57 marginal oil fields put up for bid rounds by the Federal Government hots up. The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), an agency of Federal Government, had penultimate Monday broken an 18-year-old jinx as […]
M ega carrier, Virgin Atlantic, has concluded plans to resume flight operations to Lagos from August 24, 2020. This is coming as many countries across the globe are easing restrictions on air travel. The airline, which plans to resume flight services to Lagos in August, said it would deploy its newly acquired A350 […]
T he Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has endorsed Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This is contained in a statement signed by the President of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, on behalf of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance […]
Faction suspends state chairman Aguma: Action has no effect T he leadership crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has worsened in Rivers State as camps of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Magnus Abe, fight dirty for the control of the party’s structures. Yesterday, the State […]