Rivers State Sole Administrator Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) has appointed administrators to temporarily take charge of the state’s 23 local government areas.Ibas also approved the constitution of some boards of agencies, commissions, and parastatals, which he earlier suspended.According to the TheNiche, the approval was contained in a Special Government
Senator Sunday Karimi, Chairman, Senate Services Committee, has urged his counterpart from Borno South, Senator Ali Ndume, to focus more on pressing issues such as insecurity rather than “play to the gallery”.Ndume had accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of making lopsided political appointments favouring his Yoruba ethnic group, when he
The suspended Senator for Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has instituted a N5billion defamation case against her colleague, Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, for alleging that she had six children for different men.In the process, she filed through her team of lawyers led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr. M. J. Numa.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended his heartfelt condolences to the Dozie family, the business community, and all Nigerians on the passing of Chief (Dr.) Pascal Gabriel Dozie, an elder statesman, entrepreneur, and banker. He was 85.Chief Pascal Dozie, OON, was a visionary whose contributions to Nigeria’s economic architecture left
Founder of the defunct Diamond Bank Plc and a former chairman of MTN Nigeria, Pascal Dozie, is dead, Punch reports.According to a statement issued by the family on Tuesday, the business tycoon died, on Monday, at the age of 85.Born on 9 April 1939, Dozie was raised in a Catholic
Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo has approved the payment of gratuities owed to pensioners since 2012, a move many say will address the long-standing plight of retired civil servants in the State. The State Government has, therefore, commenced the disbursement of N1 billion as the first batch of payments,
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to strengthen operational partnership and tighten the noose on drug trafficking networks operating between both countries.Highlights of the MoU include: exchange of
The Edo State House of Assembly on Monday named Jonathan Aigbokhan (APC–Esan West) as the new Majority Leader, following the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the majority party in the House.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in March, the APC had notified the Assembly of
Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum and Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has described the death of Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, former governor of Oyo State, mathematician and engineer, and renowned technocrat, a few days before his 90th birthday, as a great loss to Nigeria and intellectuals around the
Operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two brothers: John Abugu, 43, and Kenneth Abugu, 31, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos with 5kilograms cocaine concealed in walls of their suitcases while attempting to board a flight to