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Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, says Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of the late popular gospel artiste, Osinachi Nwachukwu, is married to another woman. She spoke on Wednesday while she featured as a guest on NTA’s Good Morning Nigeria’s breakfast show monitored by The PUNCH. According to the minister, Peter, who is now in police custody, physically assaulted his late wife and her four children. Tallen noted that the children of the deceased opened up to her when she visited the Abuja residence of the late singer this week. She said the children told her that their late 42-year-old…

Chief Kalu Idika Okwara, a renowned Administrator and frontline gubernatorial aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Abia State has promised better days for Abians if elected governor of the state in the 2023 gubernatorial election. Idika Okwara made the promise on Wednesday while briefing journalists at the National Headquarters of the party in Abuja. He described his personality as his selling point, insisting that he is capable of winning the governorship election for the People's Democratic Party in 2023. He pledged that as an Administrator, he would position that state on the path of greatness. He said he…

Presidential hopeful, Tein Jack-Rich, has commiserated with ex-Zamfara Deputy Governor, Ibrahim Wakkala, who was a victim of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack. Jack-Rich who led a strong delegation to Wakkala's residence on Wednesday in Abuja, expressed joy and gratitude to God for preserving the life of the former deputy governor after the unfortunate incident. ''We are one united country. I am here as a corporate citizen, and also as a Nigerian. ''The key thing is the heart of love that is set to feel the pain of others by being our brothers keeper,''Jack-Rich said. The philanthropist, who pledged to reach out…

Frontline governorship aspirant, Etigwe Uwa SAN, has again met the Govenor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo. Details of the meeting remains sketchy as at time of this report. He was accompanied by a seasoned technocrat, Mr. Oracle Nwala mni. Also in the meeting was a billionaire businessman, Sir. Emeka Offor.   Details later.

The Social Welfare Service Bill, 2022, aimed at reducing extreme poverty in Nigeria has scaled first reading at the Senate. The bill entitled “Social Welfare Service Bill, 2022 was sponsored by Senate Chief Whip, Orji Kalu(APC- Abia) at Tuesday’s plenary. The bill sought to establish a department domiciled in the Ministry for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development towards reducing acute poverty in the country. It also sought to establish a welfare service department in all the offices of the Ministry, across the 36 states of the country as well as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.  

The senate has passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps. The bill passed third reading after Sadiq Umar, chairman of the senate committee on interior, presented a report. The bill is being sponsored by Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno north. While presenting the report on the floor of the senate on Tuesday, Umar said his committee received “hundreds of memoranda” from stakeholders who are supporting the passage of the legislation. The senator said the bill, if passed and assented to by the president, would help tackle rising unemployment in the country. After presenting his report, the senate…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of three new polytechnics in various parts of the country. A statement issued on Tuesday by, the director of Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Education, said the new institutions will be located in Kano, Abia and Delta states. “In line with his determination to make tertiary education more accessible, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) has approved the establishment of three New Federal Polytechnics in the country,” Goong said in the statement. “The polytechnics are to be sited in Umunnoechi in Abia State, Orogun in Delta State and Kabo in Kano State.” According…

Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has resigned from the senate. Adamu was elected as APC national chairman at the convention of the party that was held on March 26. Abubakar Kyari, the current APC deputy chairman (north), also resigned his membership of the upper legislative chamber. Until his resignation he represented Borno north. Their resignations were stated in letters read on the floor of the red chamber by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday. Details later.

The first son of the late gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, said their father taught them that it was good to beat and maltreat women. The deceased's friend, Ene Ogbe Nevic, during a visit to the children at their house, said the alleged killer of Osinachi who also doubled as her husband, Peter Nwachukwu, had badly polluted the minds of the children. She said while conversing with the children, they explained that their father always treated their mother badly and even took possession of the cars that people gave to her. The boys further said his father pushed his mother out…

The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), at the weekend met in Abuja to brainstorm on the country's worsening security situation. The National Executive Committee of the NYCN, in a communique issued on Monday, said the meeting was held in consultation with civil society organisations, to lend its voice to the security situation in Nigeria and proffer some solutions and advice. ''Particularly with respect to the recent bombing of the Abuja-Kaduna rail track. ''The meeting was to consider the dire implications of the March 28, train attack on the Abuja-Kaduna rail track by terrorists, and their wider implications to the…