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Touched by a perceived plan to gag the press and stop the free flow of information in Enugu state, the Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police to rise to the occasion and stop the anomaly. The rights group while writing on the lingering crisis at the Federal Neoropsychiatric Hospital (FNH) Enugu that has culminated in the closure of the school’s Mental Health Nursing at the instance of the Medical Director, Dr. Monday Nwite Igwe, called on the IGP not to allow the police to be used to harass and bully journalists from…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio are scheduled to attend the commemoration of 2023 International Youth Day on August 14 at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja. The occasion is designed to feature the Public Presentation of a Book titled, "YOUTH RISING": Harnessing the Potentials and Aspirations of Nigerian Youth Towards a Greater Nation. The book which is written by Ben Duntoye, Former President Pan African Youth Youth and Executive Director, African Youth Resource Centre is dedicated to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Duntoye, also a former President of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN)…

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…