Month: April 2021
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Rivers State Executive Council has directed that compensations to victims of police brutality, and other violation of fundamental rights committed by the Nigerian Police should be paid by the police authority or the officers who perpetrated the offense. The decision was taken after the five-man committee set up by governor, Nyesom Wike, to formulate a […]
House of Representatives has agreed with the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) on the need to guarantee the independence of the judiciary to enable the courts to function effectively without external interferences. The parliament spoke when its committee on Judiciary met with JUSUN officials in Abuja. It will be recalled that the union had […]
Ebonyi State Governor DAVID UMAHI says bandits are committing crimes in the South-East of the country under the guise of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). UMAHI who is also the chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, in an interview, insisted that governors of the region will not allow what he termed illegality to reign in […]
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully. The move is expected to delay the country’s vaccination programme by several weeks. Drug watchdog the European Medicines Agency last week announced a possible link with clots but said the risk […]
Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE says his administration has successfully completed the State cassava processing factory that will buy-off cassava tubers from 3000 Rivers farmers regularly. Governor WIKE who disclosed this when members of Management and Board of the Rivers State Cassava Processing company presented processed cassava flour to him said the facility will be […]
Russia says it would consider United States President JOE BIDEN’s proposed summit for President VLADIMIR PUTIN hours after the call. Kremlin spokesman DMITRY PESKOV said it is early to talk about the meeting in terms of specifics, but promised to study the idea. The White House said President BIDEN made the proposal on the phone […]
Calls for rescue of missing Chibok schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok have continued after seven years of their abduction. In a statement to mark the anniversary, Amnesty International blamed the Federal Government for failure to learn from the Chibok attack and protect school children from attacks. Director Amnesty International Nigeria, OSAI […]
Nigeria has been ranked first in Africa and the sixth globally among the 30-high tuberculosis, TB, burden countries of the world. According to estimates from WHO global report 2020, tuberculosis kills 18 Nigerians every hour, 47 Nigerians develop active TB every hour, while 7 of them are children. According to a global tuberculosis report, 2020 […]
The President of Omoku Youth Federation, Ambassador HOPESON MEZIEUZOR has alleged that one KEN EBIRI has declared himself leader of IPOB in Omoku as well as leader of youth body. Ambassador MEZIEUZOR claimed that the CDC’S, chiefs and youths chaised the sessationist group out of Omoku. He said he had alerted security agencies of the […]
