A Professor of International Environmental and Public International Law, Cyprian Edward-Ekpo, has advised President Bola Tinubu to reverse the state of emergency imposed in Rivers State. The professor of international environmental law warned that the emergency rule in the south-south state is a threat to Nigeria’s democracy and international reputation. It would be recalled that on March 18, President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers, citing the protracted political crisis and the vandalisation of oil facilities. The President suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, his deputy, and all House of Assembly members for six months.…
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The Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has said it is better to have an impactful one-year service where corps members are properly equipped with the capacity to create jobs and impact their lives rather than extend the service to two years. He stated this while speaking with journalists on Monday in Abuja after the 2025 Annual Management Conference of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa, had on Friday called for the extension of the mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme from one to two years when the Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Olakunle…
Eighteen years after it failed to win the hosting right for the 2014 Commonwealth Games at a bid process held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Nigeria has once again expressed interest in hosting the competition. Yesterday, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) revealed that the country has met the deadline to express interest in hosting the 2030 edition of the competition in Abuja. Nigeria’s bid in 2007, tagged African bid, was led by former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, supported by then Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan, former Sports Minister, Abdulrahman Gimba, Dr Amos Adamu and the late Nobel Peace Prize Winner,…
The leadership of a foremost governance and accountability group, Association of Ebonyi Indigenes, Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora (AEISCID) has sent strong cautions to the Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial district, Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi over his vituperative utterances and attacks on eminent personalities in the sex scandal allegations involving the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In a statement released Tuesday in Abuja, the group’s President, (Worldwide), Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu described the Senator’S utterances, conducts and actions as “totally un-parliamentary, unwholesome and unbecoming of a legislator by every known standard.” Oluchukwu who warned…
-reiterates zero tolerance on excuses Governor Umo Eno says the Akwa Ibom State Executive Council retreat currently taking place in Lagos, is meant to further distill the culture of deliverables and deepen respect for boundaries as his administration works to relentlessly drive its vision of economic growth and wellbeing, peace and prosperity for the people of the State. Declaring open the retreat at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, Governor Eno said the retreat is expected to have participants, fully reinvigorated, equipped, refreshed and challenged for the tasks ahead. “We have assembled a great team of speakers drawn from diverse…
The Presidency has debunked widespread reports claiming that President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu. The reports, which went viral early Monday, alleged that Yakubu had been removed from office and replaced with a certain Professor Bashiru Olamilekan in what was described as a “sweeping change” in the electoral body’s leadership. Reacting to the claims, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Digital and New Media, O’tega Ogra, described the news as false and urged the public to disregard it. “Disregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement…
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has revealed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State governor Peter Obi are in talks to join the SDP ahead of the 2027 elections, with the aim of retiring President Bola Tinubu. Adebayo made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, where he disclosed that key allies of both men are already negotiating with the party. According to him, their potential defection would strengthen the SDP and help unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). “People are joining my party (SDP) and…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu “To reject the recently approved $1.08bn World Bank loan and instead direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to promptly investigate the allegations that over N233bn of public funds are missing, diverted or unaccounted for by the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc., Abuja and other ministries, departments and agencies [MDAs]. SERAP said, “Anyone suspected to be responsible should face prosecution as appropriate, if there is sufficient admissible evidence and any missing public funds should be fully…
Port Harcourt, April 6, 2025 (NAN) Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 6 Division have apprehended 43 suspected oil thieves during a coordinated raid on illegal artisanal refineries across Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states. Spokesman for the division, Lt.-Col. Danjuma Danjuma, disclosed this to journalists in Port Harcourt on Sunday, noting that 14 artisanal refineries were also dismantled during the operations. Danjuma also revealed that troops seized 14 boats and confiscated about 254,000 litres of various stolen petroleum products between March 31 and April 6. Providing details of the operations, he explained that soldiers in Delta raided the Old Ogorode community…
The Federal Government is set to flag off construction of the Cross River Section of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway on April 14. The section is known as Section B3 of the coastal highway project. The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, made the disclosure at a stakeholders engagement on Section Two of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project in Lagos on Sunday. “We are going there, to Cross River, on 14, to flag off the construction. By 15, we also go to Akwa Ibom to flag off. “That 65km is the worst terrain. It is 65km times two, which is 130km,”…