Month: March 2021
Brazil’s President JAIR BOLSONARO is facing the biggest crisis after the heads of the army, navy and air force all quit and the country recorded its highest daily Covid-19 death toll. The unprecedented resignation of the defence chiefs is being seen as a protest at attempts by President BOLSONARO to apply undue control over the […]
Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE has explained why he sacked the Commissioner for Environment, Doctor IGBIKS TAMUNO. The governor speaking at the signing of the contracts for the Trans-Kalabari Road project phase one and the Saakpenwa-Bori-Kono Road project phase two said TAMUNO was sacked because he engaged in acts that amounted to sabotage. Governor WIKE […]
Ebonyi state Governor DAVID UMAHI has condemned the killing of about 15 people by Suspected Herdsmen in the state Governor UMAHI made the condemnation when he visited the affected communities. While expressing sadness over the incident, the Ebonyi governor assured the people that the government will do all within its powers to bring the perpetrators […]
Russia has supplied Venezuela with COVID-19 doses of EPI-VAC-CORONA to be used as part of trials of the Russian coronavirus vaccine candidate. Russia said that more than one hundred and fifteen thousand EpiVacCorona doses had been deployed in its national inoculation programme, calling it one hundred per cent effective in producing antibodies, after some trial […]
More youth leaders have condemned the killings that took place in Luebe community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday morning. In an interview with our correspondent, the President of the National Youth Council of Ogoni People, BARINUAZOR EMMANUEL said the killings in Khana was one too many. BARINUAZOR also called on […]
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has retracted a statement that he seeks a recruitment of some 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army. In a new statement, TINUBU said he meant that he wanted fifty thousand youths to be recruited into the Nigerian Army. The APC leader said his […]
The Presidency has defended PresidentMUHAMMADU BUHARI’S trip to the United Kingdom, stressing that it is not for medical tourism. Presidential spokesperson, GARBA SHEHU, who featured a nationaltelevision programme, said the trip was because the president had maintained a relationship with his doctors in the UK for over 30 years. Recall that the Special Adviser to […]
Lawyers for Google and the United States government have argued over the number of documents the search giant should handover to the U.S. Justice Department in an antitrust lawsuit. The U.S. government had filed the suit against the search and advertising giant before Judge AMIT MEHTA of the District Court for the District of Columbia. […]
Former Rivers South-East Senator, MAGNUS ABE, has insisted that the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State, has not been zoned to the riverine area. Senator ABE spoke on the backdrop of the reported declaration of Minister of Transportation, CHIBUIKE AMAECHI that the position will be zoned to the Riverine area […]
Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE has sacked Doctor IGBIKS TAMUNO from the position of State Commissioner for Environment. The Governor directed the sacked Commissioner to submit all Government Documents and Property in his possession to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment. The Special Assistant (Media) Rivers State Governor, KELVIN EBIRI, announced this in […]
