Coups: International IDEA, regional envoys lead the way for inclusive governance, constitutional transition in Africa

Coups: International IDEA, regional envoys lead the way for inclusive governance, constitutional transition in Africa

•Jonathan, Chambas, ECOWAS, AU, IGAD harps on strengthening democracy The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), special envoys, and other key stakeholders are leading the way for inclusive governance and constitutional transition in Africa.This was the…

Hong Kong, France, Oman-bound traffickers arrested at Abuja, Lagos airports with illicit drugs

Hong Kong, France, Oman-bound traffickers arrested at Abuja, Lagos airports with illicit drugs

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two businessmen at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with consignments of cocaine and heroin going to Hong Kong and France concealed in their bellies. A statement on Sunday by spokesman…

Ex-Militant Group Calls All Presidential Candidates to Cooperate with Tinubu to Move Nigeria Ahead

Ex-Militant Group Calls All Presidential Candidates to Cooperate with Tinubu to Move Nigeria Ahead

Ilaje ex – militant group, the Niger Delta Coastline Vanguard (NDCV) has made an appeal to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)‘s presidential candidate at the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi and the presidential…

Ebonyi State Govt has political will, commitment to make Spotlight Initiative 2.0 successful 

Ebonyi State Govt has political will, commitment to make Spotlight Initiative 2.0 successful 

As the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to End Violence Against Women and Girls closed out and was handed over to Ebonyi State Government, the State Governor, H.E. Francis Nwifuru, has reassured partners and other stakeholders, of his government’s political will and commitment to…

NHRC Commends FG on Rights of Older Persons

NHRC Commends FG on Rights of Older Persons

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has commended the Federal Government for ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights of Older Persons. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Tony Ojukwu handed down this commendation in Abuja,…

N78BN JBN CONTRACT: Oborevwori’s giant step in Delta

N78BN JBN CONTRACT: Oborevwori’s giant step in Delta

–By Festus Ahon: Since his emergence as Governor of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has never hidden his intention to develop the twin cities of Warri and Effurun alongside other parts of the state. During the maiden State Executive Council (EXCO)…

OMATENE URGES CHRISTIANS TO EMBRACE GOD WITH SINCERITY OF PURPOSE

OMATENE URGES CHRISTIANS TO EMBRACE GOD WITH SINCERITY OF PURPOSE

-:By Chukwudi Asoya/ Magnus Emuji Christians and other well meaning individuals in the society have been called upon to embrace God with sincerity of purpose and identity with churches that could impact positivity on their lives. The resident Pastor of Winners ‘…

FG Seeks Private Sector Support On Poverty Alleviation, Economic Devt

FG Seeks Private Sector Support On Poverty Alleviation, Economic Devt

The Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) has reiterated the position of the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Economic Planning that the private sector is critical to driving the economic growth and overall development of Nigeria. The organization declared that the Minister…

Oborevwori, Okowa not in ‘cold war’

Oborevwori, Okowa not in ‘cold war’

Delta State Government, Friday, said there were no disagreements between the incumbent Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, and his predecessor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sir Festus Ahon, in a statement in Asaba, said the purported disagreement as…

30th Annual LAPO Development Forum: Communiqué

30th Annual LAPO Development Forum: Communiqué

A communiqué issued at the end of the 30th Annual LAPO Development Forum held on Thursday, October 19th, 2023 at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua International Conference Centre, Abuja. Theme: “The Role Of Non-State Actors In National Development: A Case Study Of Lift…

Warri: A New Beginning with Julius Berger’s Contract Signing

Warri: A New Beginning with Julius Berger’s Contract Signing

-By Dennis Otu: Warri, the once thriving oil-rich city in Delta State, has been plagued by neglect and disorganization in recent years. The departure of multinational companies left the city in a state of decay, with its young population struggling with homelessness…

BAYELSA GUBER POLL: GROUP ALLEGES PLOT TO RIG ELECTION THROUGH VIOLENCE IN OPU NEMBE

BAYELSA GUBER POLL: GROUP ALLEGES PLOT TO RIG ELECTION THROUGH VIOLENCE IN OPU NEMBE

•••SAYS VOTERS SHOULD NOT BE DISENFRANCHISED The Bayelsa Political Watch has alerted the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies of a plot to rig the next gubernatorial election in the state. The group called on the security agencies and the Independent…

Hospital Bombardment: Envoy Calls for Inquiry into Israeli’s Attacks on Palestine… Claims Over 3,000 Persons, Mostly Children, Women Killed Since Retaliatory Attacks

Hospital Bombardment: Envoy Calls for Inquiry into Israeli’s Attacks on Palestine… Claims Over 3,000 Persons, Mostly Children, Women Killed Since Retaliatory Attacks

The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullah Shawesh has called for the setting up of an inquiry into ongoing attack by Israel on Palestine on the claim of searching for members of Hamas group. Israel while claiming that she is not in war…

See How Hamas Terrorists Pluck Out Eyes Of Israeli Children, Parents Before Killing Them – Witness Reveals in Video

See How Hamas Terrorists Pluck Out Eyes Of Israeli Children, Parents Before Killing Them – Witness Reveals in Video

Read this prophecy of old in Amos 1: 6 and imagine what is currently playing out with the Hamas terrorists in Gaza. A video describing how Hamas terrorists kill families in Israel after breaking into their homes has triggered series of mixed…

CSJ Describes Purchase of SUV to Lawmakers in this Time as Insensitive

CSJ Describes Purchase of SUV to Lawmakers in this Time as Insensitive

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has described as insensitive the purchase of Toyota SUVs worth about N130 million each as official vehicles to members of House of Representatives against the background of Nigeria’s perilous fiscal position, insisting that from all indications money…

Drop Inordinate Ambition, Support Tantita to Secure Pipeline in Niger Delta- IYN

Drop Inordinate Ambition, Support Tantita to Secure Pipeline in Niger Delta- IYN

The Ijaw Youths Network has called on stakeholders in the Niger Delta to support Tantita Security Services in the crucial task of reducing the harrowing theft of the nation’s crude oil resources, instead of promoting individual inordinate ambitious to upstage the company…

Exporters seek reinstatement of sacked NEPC Executive Director

Exporters seek reinstatement of sacked NEPC Executive Director

Exporters have called on the Federal Government to reinstate the Executive Director Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Dr. Ezra Yakusak as a reward for his tireless work towards putting Nigerian exporters on world map. Some exporters while speaking to journalists in Abuja…

Nigeria to Benefit from US$500 million Development Plan

Nigeria to Benefit from US$500 million Development Plan

Nigeria is one of the country to benefit from a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed for the co-financing of up to US$500 million of debt transactions to facilitate long-term sustainable development across developing economies and low-income countries in Africa, Asia, and the…

INTERVIEW WITH DR. CLIFFORD IMADE OMOZEGHIAN ESQ, WORLDWIDE PRESIDENT AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

INTERVIEW WITH DR. CLIFFORD IMADE OMOZEGHIAN ESQ, WORLDWIDE PRESIDENT AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

-By Pastor Joseph Obaro Ikupa: Q: Can I meet you? A: My name is Dr. Clifford Imade Omozeghian Esq. I am a legal practitioner and by the grace of God, the current Worldwide President of Ambrose Alli University Alumni Association. Q: How…

NHRC Seeks AGF’s Support to Booster Human Rights Work

NHRC Seeks AGF’s Support to Booster Human Rights Work

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr. Tony Ojukwu has sought the support of the federal government to strengthen the Commission’s efforts in the promotion, protection and enforcement of human rights in the country. He made this request when he…

IJAW ETHNIC NATIONALITY FLAYS NON-INCLUSION IN TINUBU-LED GOVT *** We Demand Equity, Justice In Federal Appointments – INC

IJAW ETHNIC NATIONALITY FLAYS NON-INCLUSION IN TINUBU-LED GOVT *** We Demand Equity, Justice In Federal Appointments – INC

-From the Editor’s Desk: The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has expressed disappointment over the continued neglect of indigenes of the IJAW ethnic nationality in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration.  The INC decried the supposedly appointment of a non- Ijaw as the…

FG Laments Disinterest in Hand Washing After COVID-19 Epidemic

FG Laments Disinterest in Hand Washing After COVID-19 Epidemic

The federal government has lamented that many structures put in place, especially the culture of hand washing during the COVID-19 epidemic has not be sustained. Speaking at the celebration of the Global Hand Washing Day in Abuja, the Deputy Director, Sport and…

DELTA GOVT TO SUSTAIN EFFORTS IN IMPROVING TEACHING, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, SAYS OGHORO

DELTA GOVT TO SUSTAIN EFFORTS IN IMPROVING TEACHING, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, SAYS OGHORO

-From MAGNUS EMUJI: Delta State Government (DTSG) has reiterated its resolve to sustain efforts in the area of projects and activities towards improving the teaching and learning environment in the state. The Permanent Secretary in the State Ministry of Basic and Secondary…

OLEH COMMUNITY COMMENDS OBOREVWORI, APPEAL WHITE PAPER ERRORS, DELINEATION MARK BETWEEN OLEH, OZORO LAND DISPUTE

OLEH COMMUNITY COMMENDS OBOREVWORI, APPEAL WHITE PAPER ERRORS, DELINEATION MARK BETWEEN OLEH, OZORO LAND DISPUTE

The people of Oleh community in Isoko South local government area of Delta State, have commended the Delta State government on the steps taken so far in promoting peace between land owners families from Ozoro and Oleh communities. They appealed to Governor…

PRESIDENT TINUBU APPOINTS NEW EFCC CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION

PRESIDENT TINUBU APPOINTS NEW EFCC CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION

By the powers vested in President Bola Tinubu as established in section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, that “the Chairman and members of the Commission, other than ex-officio members, shall be appointed by the President,”…

Malicious reports: Press statement by Pastor Emmanuel AZUBUIKE on behalf of family of prophetess LILIAN CHIBUZOR ABUA

Malicious reports: Press statement by Pastor Emmanuel AZUBUIKE on behalf of family of prophetess LILIAN CHIBUZOR ABUA

I am constrained to react to some newspaper publication today, especially that of Tribune, Vanguard and the Nation over the judgment delivered by an Ondo Customary Court on the 10th of October by Magistrate Stephen Rotiba, on the case between my daughter and sister Mrs. Lilian…

Oborevwori consolidating infrastructure renewal in Delta – Izeze

Oborevwori consolidating infrastructure renewal in Delta – Izeze

Delta State Commissioner for Works (Highways and Urban Roads) Comrade Reuben Izeze says the state government was consolidating infrastructural renewal in Asaba, other urban and rural centres across the state. Speaking during inspection of reconstruction and expansion of road and drainage at…

To Counter Boko Haram Ideology, Zulum converts Arabic school to institute

To Counter Boko Haram Ideology, Zulum converts Arabic school to institute

… To partner Al-Azhar University Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has announced the conversion of Mustapha Umar Elkanemi Arabic (Teachers) College in Maiduguri to a specialised institute for teaching of Arabic and Islamic education that will counter the ideology of Boko…

AGALA RESTATES COMMITMENT TO ADVANCE DEVELOPMENT IN AMACHAI, OKPANAM

AGALA RESTATES COMMITMENT TO ADVANCE DEVELOPMENT IN AMACHAI, OKPANAM

From Magnus Emuji: The chairman of Amachai youths, Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, Comrade Emmanuel Onwudinjo Agala has reassured the people of Amachai and Okpanam community in general of his avowed commitment to advance the course of…

67-year-old in NDLEA Custody for Ingesting 100 Wraps of Cocaine at Abuja Airport

67-year-old in NDLEA Custody for Ingesting 100 Wraps of Cocaine at Abuja Airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 67-year-old alleged trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine. Chukwuemeka who was arrested last on Tuesday during the inward clearance of…

Delta alerts residents on recurring scam acts 

Delta alerts residents on recurring scam acts 

Delta State Government, Monday, alerted Deltans and the general public against falling prey to the activities of scammers whose specialty was fooling the unsuspecting public in order to obtain unjust financial favours under the guise of giving them appointments.  Chief Press Secretary…

Gov Oborevwori abolishes promotion arrears in Delta

Gov Oborevwori abolishes promotion arrears in Delta

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori on Monday directed that workers be promoted as and when due, with payment of necessary financial obligations, to avoid piling up promotion arrears. Governor Oborevwori gave the directive when he received on courtesy call, Judges…

Death On The East-West Road: If only we had been fair to ourselves…

Death On The East-West Road: If only we had been fair to ourselves…

-By Fred Edoreh: Somehow, death chose our 63rd Independence Day anniversary to remind us of the bad state of federal roads in the Niger Delta, perhaps across the nation. As President Bola Tinubu was performing the anniversary ritual in Abuja, a petrol…

Saudi Fund for Development Signs New $20 Million Development Loan Agreement to Construct, Equip Schools in Tajikistan

Saudi Fund for Development Signs New $20 Million Development Loan Agreement to Construct, Equip Schools in Tajikistan

The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has signed a deal to contribute $20 million USD towards the “Constructing and Equipping of Secondary Schools” project in Tajikistan. SFD Chief Executive Officer, H.E. Sultan Al-Marshad, signed today a new development loan agreement with the…

OGWUDA TASKS INDIVIDUALS ON IMPACTFUL LIFE

OGWUDA TASKS INDIVIDUALS ON IMPACTFUL LIFE

The need to live impactful life on earth for the overall benefits of humanity has been stressed. A veteran journalist , Mr. Austin Ogwuda stated this in Okpanam while speaking with newsmen shortly after receiving posthumous award for his late father, Diokpa…

Abia Governor, Otti lauds Oborevwori’s impactful leadership in Delta 

Abia Governor, Otti lauds Oborevwori’s impactful leadership in Delta 

Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti has commended his Delta State counterpart, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori for his people-oriented and impactful governance.  Governor Otti stated this yesterday when he received Governor Oborevwori and his entourage at his Umuru, Umuehim country home in…

Gov. Soludo Hosts Archbishop Okolo, Calls For Unity, Understanding Among Various Denominations

Gov. Soludo Hosts Archbishop Okolo, Calls For Unity, Understanding Among Various Denominations

–From SUNNY A. DAVID: The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has advocated for unity and understanding among Christians of different denominations, with the aim of achieving a shared vision and mission. Prof Soludo made the call when he received…

Youth Leadership Nurturing, Activism Receive Boost

Youth Leadership Nurturing, Activism Receive Boost

Youth leadership nurturing and activism in Nigeria have received a massive boost with Luminate contributing to Nigeria Youth Futures Fund (NYFF) The NYFF Project, initiated in 2021, is a five-year initiative funded by the MacArthur Foundation and Ford Foundation and implemented by…