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Nguru Uboma Ahia-Ise Mbaise has condemned the brutal assassination of HRH, Eze James Ndubuisi Nnamdi, (Mmirioma) Durujiaku Uboma II, the traditional ruler of Nguru-Nweke Autonomous Community. The position of the community was made known through a communique signed by Uboma-in-Council, Eze D. O. Njoku Ekwueme II of Nguru Nwe Nkwo Autonomous Community, Uboma Nguru 2022/2024, Nze Ano Anyanwu Onaka Nguru, Dr A. C. Odunze National President, Nguru Development Union. (NDU) on 5th August 2023, at Nguru, Aboh Mbaise, Imo State. According to the communique, Uboma-in- Council, invoking its traditional spiritual authority places a curse on the assasins, their sponsors and…

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has unveiled names of chairmen and vice-chairmen of the standing committees.   The announcement was made soon after the Senate resumed from its break at 9.59pm and ended 10.47pm. In the list, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, APC, Edo North is chairing the Committee on Interior, Senator Sani Musa, APC, Niger East is Chairman on Finance; Orji Uzor Kalu, APC, Abia State is Chairman Committee on  Privatisation; Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, APC, Oyo North chairs Committee on Aviation, Osita Izunaso, Committee on Capital Market, Seriake Dickson, Ecology; Neda Imasuen, LP, Edo South, Ethics, Privileges and…

For Nigeria to attain optimum tax revenue collection capacity across the Federal, States and Local Government tax authorities, the country must make hard but necessary reforms that would yield long term benefits. This was the position stated by the Chairman of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), Mr. Muhammad Nami, who is also the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) at the 153rd Meeting of the Board which held today in Abuja with the theme: “Harmonization and codification of taxes at the National and Sub-national levels: Key to achieving a tax friendly environment in Nigeria.” Mr. Nami, while…

The Director (South East) Parliamentarian APC Presidential Campaign Council and Abia State Coordinator for Women Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Women Campaign Council, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu has congratulated Rt. Hon. Nkiruka Onyejiocha, Hon. Dr. Betta Edu, Hannatu Musawa, , Doris Uzoka, Stella Okotette, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, Lola Adejo, Mrs Iman Suleiman Ibrahim and Rt. Hon. Samuel Onuigbo on their appointments as Minister Designates and Board Member, North East Development Commission respectively. Senator Nwaogu expressed her profound gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR on his entrenchment of the 35% women affirmative and his unwaivering determination in making sure that the Principle of Federal Character…

The Abia State government has embarked on sensitization of communities and property owners to prepare them to make the necessary sacrifices for the development of Umuahia, the capital city. As part of his development agenda, Governor Alex Otti had announced the expansion of the main entry road leading into Umuahia from the Enugu- Port Harcourt expressway. He said that the Ossah road, which is presently a dualised entry from Abia Tower junction off the expressway into Umuahia, would be expanded to six lanes. To make this possible, over 160 properties have been pencilled down for demolition, while some ancestral lands…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a fake couple: Mr. Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Mrs. Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum purportedly going for medical treatment in India for ingesting 184 wraps of cocaine weighing 3.322 kilograms with 100grams of the drug also concealed in the woman’s private part. The two suspects were intercepted at the Screening Point 1, Terminal 1 of the international wing of the Lagos airport on Tuesday 1st August 2023 while attempting to board an Ethiopian airline flight to India. Though their travel documents show consistency in their names and depict them as a…

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has regretted the impending exit of British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from Nigeria after 51 years. This follows the company’s announcement of plans to end its prescription medicines and vaccine production in the country. In a statement sent to the Nigerian Exchange Limited, the multinational pharmaceutical company said it would transition to a third-party direct distribution model for its pharmaceutical products. Reacting to the development in a tweet on Friday night, Obi said that the company’s reason for leaving Nigeria is even more disheartening as they no…

The Northern Senators Forum has urged Nigerian government to exercise caution and avoid use of military force against the Niger military junta. THE WHISPERER reports that on July 26, a coup d’état led by the commander of the presidential guard, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, occurred in Niger Republic. The Nigerian government had called on the military junta to reinstate President Bazoum Mohamed and threatened military action against the junta. But the Northern Senators Forum, in a statement by its spokesman, Senator Kawu Sumaila, urged President Bola Tinubu to tread with caution and explore dialogue rather than military action. “We, the Northern…

More facts have emerged on the replacement of a ministerial nominee from Kano State, Dr. Maryam Shettima, popularly known as Maryam Shetty with another female candidate from the state, and the fresh nomination of a former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, on Friday morning. Maryam Shetty was replaced with Dr. Mairiya Mahmoud Bunkure, a former Commissioner for Higher Education in Kano State; while Keyamo was solely named the 48th ministerial nominee in a third communication to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu on ministerial appointments. Inside sources told our correspondent on Friday that the…