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The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to reserve special seats for Women at the National and State Houses of Assembly. This followed the rejection of the bill at the electronic voting on the amendment of 1999 Constitution on Tuesday in Abuja. The bill entitled,” A Bill for an Act to Alter the […]
This is because there is a provision in 0ne of the sections of the constitution amendment bill passed by the Senate which empowers the National Assembly and State Assemblies to summon the president and state governors to answer questions bordering on security or other issues on which the national and state houses of assembly have […]
The Anambra State Police Commissioner, CP EchengEcheng, has announced the arrests of some suspects in connection with the Ebenebe funeral killing. CP Echeng disclosed this during a visit to the Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese, Most Reverend Valerian Okeke. Correspondent Kenechukwu Chukwudi reports that CP Echeng said that the visit was aimed as seeking the collaboration of the […]
An apprentice, Sunday Ndenta, has expressed dissatisfaction with the settlement he got from his master after serving him for over 14 years. Ndenta spoke to journalists on the sideline of a youth forum, tagged, ‘Igba Boi Apprenticeship Scheme,’ in Awka, Anambra State. The scheme is seeking the revival of the apprenticeship system in the South-East. […]
French President Emmanuel Macron held separate phone calls with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts on Monday in a bid to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine. Macron spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “several” times and also had an hour-and-a-half-long phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he urged to “end the Russian offensive against […]
The Supreme Court, on Monday, slated May 27 to deliver judgement on the leadership crisis rocking the Imo state chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC. A five-man panel of justices of the apex court led by Justice Kayode Ariwola, adjourned to determine the merit of a suit that is seeking to set aside the […]
A High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, yesterday, ruled that Governor David Umahi did not violate any provision of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) or the Electoral Act by defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Dismissing a suit challenging his defection to APC, Presiding Judge, Justice Henry Njoku, stated that the plaintiff came […]
An 18-year-old woman in Adamawa State has been allegedly caught trying to sell a boy she abducted. Blessing John reportedly confessed to abducting nine-year-old Elkanah Samuel in Michika intending to sell him in Mubi to a prearranged buyer. It was said that she wanted to buy a car and a house from the proceeds. Elkanah […]
A research group at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), High Performance and Intelligence Computing (HiPIC) has secured a $110,000 grant for the development of smart agriculture in Nigeria. The grant was awarded by the Lacuna Fund which is made of funders like the Rockefeller Foundation, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (CIDRC), Google, among others […]
There is anxiety, almost disarray, in the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the release of the timeline for the 2023 elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the weekend. Unlike the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has all its organs in place, the APC is being run by a caretaker committee at the […]
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