By Alex Nwahiri The Ukrainian forces holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks, today surrendered to the Russian authorities to allow the wounded soldiers and civilians, receive urgent medical attention. A statement from the garrison commander of the troops in the Azovstal steelworks explained, that the garrison was obeying orders to save the lives of troops and get the wounded to the hospital. Journalists who covered the evacuation, reported seeing dozens of buses carrying both the fighters and the wounded, to a medical facility in the Russian controlled town of Novoazovsk…
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ASUU Shuns Appeal To End Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other industry based unions, have turned down the appeal by the federal government to resume duties while negotiations are ongoing to meet up with their demands. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Thursday, pleaded with the unions to go back to work when he spoke at the National Productivity Day Celebration, held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. But, at the President’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari-led meeting between the federal government team, ASUU and other registered Trade Unions in Nigerian universities, as…
Read MoreKaduna Lawmaker Caught On His Way To Supply Bandits With AK-47
The Mobile Policemen of 47 MPF Squad have caught a Councilor elected for Kinkiba Ward of Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Abdul Adamu Kinkiba on his way to supply Bandits with AK-47. It was learnt that Mr Kinkiba was arrested with an AK-47 rifle on his way to deliver the same to Bandits in one of the deadly forests in the State. Kinkiba was arrested by the Mobile Policemen of 47 MPF Squad operating along Galadimawa axis of Giwa local government area of the State when he was…
Read MoreCourt Awards N200m Judgment Against Nigerian Army For Killing Imo Businessman
Justice Maureen Onyetenu of the Federal High Court in Owerri, Imo state, on Thursday awarded a N200m court judgment against the Nigerian army for killing a businessman, Noel Chigbu. Delivering the judgment, the jurist agreed with the applicant’s request that the Nigerian soldiers were liable for the killing of the businessman at Amakaohia flyover in Owerri on April 30, 2021. Though counsel to the application, Brigadier Gen. G. O Anyalebechi(Rtd) demanded N1bn in compensation for the killing of the businessman, the court settled for N200m. Briefing our correspondent after the…
Read MorePDP NEC Throws 2023 Presidential Contest Open
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 96th National Executive Committee (NEC) has finally thrown open the contest for the party’s 2023 presidential ticket. PDP’s position was made known during the party’s NEC meeting, Wednesday, in Abuja. Also, ahead of the party’s National Convention to elect the party’s presidential candidate, the NEC appointed former President of the Senate, David Mark to Chair the Convention Committee.
Read MorePetrol marketers warns of looming fuel scarcity
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has asked Nigerians to prepare for the worst fuel crisis. To avoid this, the petrol marketers association asked the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority to pay its members their outstanding bridging claims amounting to over N500 billion. The IPMAN chairman in Kano State, Bashir Danmalam, made the remarks while addressing a news conference in Kano State on Monday. He said the failure of the NMDPRA to pay the the bridging claims, otherwise known as transportation…
Read MoreN1.79bn fraud: Court arraigns Stella Oduah
A former Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Adaeze Oduah has arrived the Federal High Court in Abuja to take her plea in the alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges brought against her by the Federal Government. She is to be arraigned before Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo, alongside two other women and four companies. Among the companies is the construction giant, China Civil Engineering Corporation CCECC. Already, the Federal Government’s lawyer, Dr Hassan Liman, SAN, has also arrived in court. About five Senior Advocates of Nigeria are also in court to defend…
Read MoreTown Union vows to fight drug sale and abuse
Newly elected President-General of Ndiokwu Federated Union, Elder Chidi Uneze, has vowed to rid the community of all points of sale of illicit drugs just as he stated that dealers in banned drugs and substances in the community would be reported to law enforcement agencies for prosecution. Elder Chidi Uneze, who made the vow shortly after his election as President-General Ndiokwu Federated Union, Ndiokwu Lorji, Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, said the leadership of the union would work with relevant government agencies to make Ndiokwu Lorji drug-free, and warned…
Read MoreNkwerre: Satellite Communities Meet Reiterate Support For Uzodinma
…Set up 10 Man committee By Williams Odunze The Satellite Communities Leadership Forum,a Political group for Services and development of Nkwerre LGA has brainstormed on the way forward For Socio-Economic and Political development of the Area as they reiterate their support for the present administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. At the end of the meeting which was well attended by Presidents General of the Communities, Traditional Prime Ministers, Selected Youths and Women Leaders, Former and present Government appointees and other Communities Leaders resolved as follows- That the Communities will continue…
Read MoreEuropean Union To Embargo Russian Oil By End Of The Year
By Alex Nwahiri More than two months into Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine, the European Union today announced an embargo on Russian fossil fuels , its biggest economic sacrifice yet to inflict pain on the Russian economy and Vladimir V Putin. The measure unveiled by the President of the European Union, Ursula Von Der Leyen, would ban Russian crude oil imports to nearly all of European Union in the next six months, and refined oil products by the end of the year. The embargo contained in the sixth round of…
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