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Yuletide: Soludo Dismisses Security Threat, Says Anambra Safe

The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has insisted that the state was safe for those returning home for the Yuletide season. This was as the governor dismissed a viral message circulating in the state, which had warned Christmas returnees to avoid certain…

12/12/2022

Alleged Marriage Crash: Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s Wife, Helen Debunks Rumour

Helen, the wife of Popular Nigerian Pastor, Ayo Oritsejafor, has broken the silence over reports alleging that her marriage to the former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has crashed. According to the rumor making the rounds, the marriage of Oritsejafor…

12/12/2022

Reinstatement of Ofili-Ajumogobia, Agonising Stab on Judiciary – Access to Justice

Access to Justice (A2J) has described the reinstatement of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia as an agonising stab to the soul and body of the judiciary. In a statement by the convener of the civil society organisation, Joseph Otteh, it urged the National Judicial Commission…

12/12/2022

NUC Working With ICPC to Flush Out Illegal Varsities, Says Executive Secretary

The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, has said the commission is collaborating with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences (ICPC) to flush out illegal universities in the system. He said as a regulatory agency, the…

12/12/2022

NHIA Clarifies Stance on Removal of HIV Management from PHC Scheme

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) yesterday clarified the removal of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) management from primary healthcare (PHC) services obtainable for enrollees in its scheme. It explained that the decision was because another government agency…

12/12/2022

SERAP Gives Wike, Okowa, Others 7 Days to Reveal Spending of N625bn Refunds

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the nine oil-producing states in the country to “provide and widely publish details of spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625billion recently paid to them by the federal government of Nigeria, including…

12/12/2022

FG Bans Articulated Vehicles from Using Second Niger Bridge

THE Federal government has banned articulated vehicles from plying the second Niger Bridge when it is temporarily opened for use during the festive period. The Anambra State Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Adeoye Irelewuyi, made this known in a statement in Onitsha…

11/12/2022

Rights Activist Laments House Demolition by Anambra Govt

A human rights activist, Osita Obi, has lamented the demolition of his house by the officials of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, an Anambra State agency. Obi told journalists in Awka on Saturday that the structure, a newly-constructed duplex was located in the…

11/12/2022

Buhari Lacks Solution to Security Problems – Onaiyekan

The regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), seems to have no solution to the security challenges in Nigeria, the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, said on Saturday. Onaiyekan, a former President of the Christian Association…

11/12/2022

BREAKING: DSS Gives NNPCL 48 Hours to Resolve Fuel Scarcity

The Department of State Services has given Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other stakeholders in the downstream sector 48 hours to end the lingering fuel scarcity across the country. Addressing journalists at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, the spokesperson, Peter…

08/12/2022

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