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Abia North: Disqualify Orji Kalu for admitting fraud conviction – Nnamdi tells Court

NewsDeskNgOct 16, 2023October 16, 20230

By Mathew Dadiya The Labour Party Senatorial Candidate for Abia North in the 2023 election, Nnamdi Iro Orji has prayed the Appeal Court to disqualify Senator Orji Uzor Kalu having admitted before the Federal High Court that he was convicted of fraud. In the appeal lodged by his lead counsel,...

Family Of Late London-bound Nigerian Student Announces Burial Plans, Decries Egypt Air Nonchalance

NewsDeskNgOct 16, 2023October 16, 20230

The family of the late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, 41, a Nigerian citizen who died aboard Egypt Air on September 4, 2023, in Cairo on her way to London for studies, has announced her burial plans with the repatriation of the body back to Lagos on Wednesday. This was disclosed in...

Aisha Rimi Assumes Office As NIPC Boss

NewsDeskNgOct 16, 2023October 16, 20230

The new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Aisha Rimi, assumed office at the NIPC headquarters in Abuja on Monday. The Executive Secretary in her opening address pledged to advance Nigeria’s economic development through strategic investment promotion. She thanked President Bola Tinubu for the privilege to...

Appointment of Mayor: Don’t set Abia on fire, Ex-Commissioner warns Alex Otti

NewsDeskNgOct 16, 2023October 16, 20230

…Says ‘Aba na Ohazu’ indigenes are owners of Aba The immediate-past Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Abia state, Chief Eze Chikamnayo, Esq, has cautioned the incumbent state governor, Alex Otti, against acts and comments that could set the state on fire. Chief Chikamnayo was reacting to comment credited to...

Nigerians kick against alleged plan by Tinubu to appoint Al-Mustapha CG NSCDC

NewsDeskNgOct 16, 2023October 16, 20230

A pro democracy group STAND UP NIGERIA has condemned allege plans by the President Bola Tinubu administration to appoint Gen. Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd) as Controller General of the Nigeria NSCDC The group in a statement signed by its Coordinator Sunday Attah on Sunday said such plan if true, does not...

Atiku to Tinubu: The world knows you as a Forger-in-Chief

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2023October 15, 20230

…Says ‘my change of name well documented’ The Atiku Media Office has said that attempt by the presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to drag former Vice President Atiku Abubakar into forgery must be seen as effort to minimise allegation of forgeries against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. A...

Governor Alia is too economical with the truth

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2023October 15, 20230

By Aare Abiodun Oluwarotimi Christians are expected to speak the truth always even at the point of death but reverse is the case for the governor of Benue state, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia. A Catholic Priest for that matter. One cannot totally say that Governor Alia has not tried in...

Ganduje vows to protect APC’s mandate in Nasarawa

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2023October 15, 20230

…as Engineer Sule, Al-makura, Senator Wadada eulogize Aliyu Bello National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has vowed to protect the mandate of the party in Nasarawa, stressing that that the party won the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state. Ganduje made this know...

China releases white paper on Belt and Road cooperation

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2023October 15, 20230

The State Council Information Office of China released a white paper titled “The Belt and Road Initiative: A Key Pillar of the Global Community of Shared Future” on Tuesday. The white paper is expected to give the international community a better understanding of the value of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI),...

Prof. Abubakar wins the coveted 2023 Roux Prize

NewsDeskNgOct 15, 2023October 15, 20230

One of the world’s foremost public health professionals, Nigeria’s Prof. Ibrahim Abubakar, of the University College, London, has been awarded the coveted Roux Prize 2023. A beacon of excellence and transformational force, Abubakar, an indigene of Bauchi State, won the prize in recognition of his unwavering commitment to improving health...