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The ongoing 6-lane Port Harcourt Road project embarked upon by the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led Abia State government will be completed before May 2023 with at least one lane asphalted for use before the end of this year. The State's Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu who made this known while chatting with newsmen in Aba, the State's commercial nerve centre, recalled that work stopped temporarily on the road due to the Ndiegoro flood mediation project which intersected Porr Harcourt Road from the Uratta axis which is being handled NEWMAP. Chief Okiyi stated that the state government is devising an…

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has signed into Law the Anti-Grazing Bill passed by the State House of Assembly. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo said the Governor Akeredolu signed the bill into Law in his office on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. "The move is in line with the resolution of the Southern Governors' Forum at its last meeting in Lagos where September 1st was set as the deadline for Governors in Southern Nigeria to sign the Anti-Open Grazing Bill into law. "This is worthwhile and a very laudable development aimed at stemming needless…

Global President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has lambasted Governor Godwin Obaseki over the sorry state of major streets in Benin City. Eholor stated this in an interview with journalists while reacting to photographs and video of residents either swimming or stuck in water or struggling to wade through water as the rains turns Benin City into a lagoon. According to him, the sorry state of Benin City is largely due to the leadership failure of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He said; "Benin City under Obaseki is submerged with flood anytime it rains and becomes submerged with filth…

The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Department has again been ordered to oney court order and free Miss Glory Okolie. The IGP IRT unit, Head of Legal Departmenton had on 31st August 2021, allegedly approached the FCT High Court sitting at Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice C Origi to upturn all interim orders made on Glory Okolie on the 27th August 2021. Our correspondent reports that the above information was made available by an individual who would not want his name mentioned in public. According to the information, the court presided over by Justice Origi once again implored…

Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), says the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) shows that Nigeria is sinking. Mbaka said this while delivering his sermon on Sunday. The cleric warned that the attack is “just the beginning of the trouble”, adding that “the main trouble is coming”. He also called for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), saying his detention is not the solution to the country’s problems. “Did you not hear that yesterday (Saturday), bandits entered into our most secured place in this country, Nigerian Defence…

Elder Statesman and former Minister of Steel in the Second Republic, Wantaregh Paul Unongo has cautioned those castigating Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state for speaking out against the herdsmen attacks in his state and worsening insecurity in the country to refrain from their actions. The former Chairman of Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, said the Benue Governor has not done anything outside his constitutional duties and has not descended to inciting crisis in the country as being alleged by the presidency. Unongo who spoke, Monday, at the Benue stakeholders meeting held in Makurdi put together by the State Government in…

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the killing of Captain Abdulkareem Na’Allah, the son of the Senator representing Kebbi South, Bala Na’Allah. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement today said Buhari, however, reassured Nigerians of his commitment to protect lives and property. “The death of Abdulkareem is another tragic chapter in our current security challenges, but I reassure Nigerians that my commitment to protect the lives and property of all Nigerians remains unwavering,” the President stated. “I’m saddened by the tragic loss of Abdulkareem and other victims of violence…

The home where Abdulkarim Bala Na’Allah was found dead on Sunday had been burgled two months before his murder, a friend and classmate of the deceased told Daily Trust on Monday. Na’Allah, the son of Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, who represents Kebbi south, was found tied and strangled on Sunday in his Malali home in Kaduna. Kaduna State Police command said the assailants had escaped with the deceased’s Lexus SUV. The deceased former classmate at Police Secondary School Minna, told Daily Trust that they had chatted briefly on video call on Friday evening before the civilian pilot told her he…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council, (NJC), Justice Tanko Muhammad has summoned the Chief Judges of Rivers, Kebbi, Cross River, Anambra, Jigawa and Imo State to an emergency meeting. This is part of efforts to stem the recent wave of embarrassing and conflicting exparte orders emanating from judges in their jurisdictions. In a letter of invitation dated 30th of August, 2021 and sighted by our judiciary correspondent, the CJN summoned the head of the concerned courts to the emergency meeting to brief him on the incessant granting of the conflicting orders on suits…