Mr Martins Amaewhule, Speaker of the suspended Rivers House of Assembly has commended President Bola Tinubu on his decision to activate a state of emergency in Rivers. The Speaker also said that the move was in the best interest of the state and urged residents to cooperate with the newly deployed Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral…
President Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, citing a prolonged political crisis that has crippled governance and threatened security in the oil-rich region. In a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday, Tinubu said his administration had exhausted all avenues for peaceful resolution but was left with no choice as democratic institutions in…
Ijaw Youths under the umbrella of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), blocked the Mbiama Axis of the East-West road on Tuesday to protest over the statements by the Minster of the FCT. Barr. Nyesom Wike. It would be recalled that Wike allegedly described the Ijaws as minority in the Niger Delta region. The peaceful protest…
Gov Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has reiterated his administration’s determination to transform neglected areas of the state through urban regeneration initiatives. Soludo gave the assurance on Tuesday, when he inaugurated projects at Okpoko community in Ogbaru Local government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor inaugurated the newly…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has sought partnership with the Chinese government on agriculture and vocational training with focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Wike appealed for the support when the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Yu Dunhai, visited him in Abuja on Tuesday. He explained that the…
The stock market on Tuesday continued on a negative note as performance indices declined by 0.40 per cent. Specifically, the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) market capitalisation fell by N265 billion or 0.40 per cent to N66.078 trillion from N66.343 trillion recorded on Monday. Also, the All-Share Index dropped by 0.40 per cent or 423.48 points…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into mammals. FAO’s Deputy Director-General Godfrey Magwenzi said this while briefing Member States in Rome on Tuesday. The…
Nigeria is facing a critical funding shortfall in its efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB), with an estimated 80,000 expected TB patients in 2024 still unidentifiable or untreated. Stakeholders raised this concern on Tuesday at a pre-World TB Day press briefing in Abuja. Mr Tajudeen Ibrahim, Country Coordinating Mechanism, Global Fund, Executive Secretary, disclosed that Nigeria…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the revocation of the Right of Occupancy (RofO) to its national secretariat property by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) as an “attempt to stifle opposition parties in the country”. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, reacting to the development in a telephone interview with newsmen on…
Renowned Nigerian physician, Dr Tochi Okwor, said that the 2018 Lassa fever outbreak exposed critical gaps in the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) system. Okwor is the Head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). She made the assertion while sharing her firsthand experience of the…
