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Enugu State residents Thursday partially observed the sit at home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to protest and mark its “holy day” in deference to those that have lost their lives to the struggle. IPOB is pushing for an independent state for the Igbo-dominated southeastern Nigeria. The …

Former Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo denied reports he was on board an Ethiopian plane that escaped a crash in Lagos. It was reported on Wednesday afternoon that Obasanjo was on board the Boeing 777-300 aircraft Ethiopian flight that encountered bad weather during landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport. However, …

Few hours after his inauguration as Oyo State governor Seyi Makinde sacked chairmen of all the Local Government and Local Council Development in the state. Chief of staff to the governor, Bisi Ilaka, made this known in a statement in Ibadan. The governor directed all Local Government Chairmen to hand …

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, signed the 2019 Appropriation Bill. Present at the State House during the ceremony where, Buhari signed the budget, were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Danjuma …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the new minimum wage will take effect from April 18, 2019, when it was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Federal Government on May 14, 2019 inaugurated a committee to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries arising …

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, particularly …

The Indigenous People of Biafra said on Sunday former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment on “Fulanisation” and “Islamisation” of the country had come too late. Obasanjo had in a recent comment decried the high level of insecurity in the country, regretting that both Boko Haram and herdsmen acts of violence were …

The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has urged the National Judicial Council to dismiss a petition written by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court. The judge had ruled in Okorocha’s favour in a fundamental rights enforcement suit he filed against …

Anti-corruption advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has sued Delta State governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged poor funding of primary education in his state. In the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos, the group urged the court to compel Okowa “to explain the disparity between budgetary …

Some elders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State have opposed purported subtle moves to consider Godswill Akpabio for a ministerial appointment. Their protestation is coming barely 48 hours to the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office on May 29, 2019. Speaking …