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Youth Group Urges Financial Institution To Monitor LGA Allocation A group, Northern Christian Youth Professionals (NCYP), has commended the landmark move to ensure the direct transfer of Local Government revenues from the Revenue Allocation Account Committee into the bank accounts of Local Government Councils, noting that this development aligns with the Supreme Court’s historic judgment…
Solar Distribution, 40 Owukpa Community Benefits. Tracy Ohovwore – Benin In a bid to support a post-extractive future for Owukpa women, whose peaceful efforts led to the halting of environmentally destructive coalmining activities in their community in 2021, Yes to Life, No to Mining (YLNM)—a global solidarity network for Indigenous Peoples impacted communities and local…
Fire Outbreak Kills 8-Month-old In Rivers …Council chair gives #7m to victims of gas explosion Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt An eight-month-old baby is feared to have died following a fire at a self-contained apartment on Rumuworlu Street in the Eneka area of Obio Akpor local government area of Rivers State. Although the actual cause of…
Court Sacks PDP Executives in Rivers Barikui Felix- Port Harcourt A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt on Monday nullified the 2024 ward, local government, and state congresses of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, conducted in the state. The court also restrained the executives who emerged from Congress from acting as executive members of…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Group Threatens Protest, Give Mbata 7-Day Ultimatum To Resign Barikui Felix – Port Harcourt. Reactions are now trailing Senator Sam Mbata’s emergence as the president-general of Ohanaeze—Ndigbo. A political pressure group, the Rivers Restoration Movement (RRM), has given him seven days to resign. The group said that Ikwerres are not part of the…
A/Ibom Government Urged to Intervene on Rising Mental Health Cases Uko Etim, Uyo A concerned group in Akwa Ibom State, the Ononokpono Olu Family, has called on the government at all levels to address the rising cases of mental health disorders in the state, In a communiqué issued after their biennial homecoming and family reunion…
Sudanese Government War Against Rebels Sudanese government has said the war against the rebel group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is at its end as major factors are now against the militias. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Monday, the Charge d’ Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Nigeria, Mr Ahmed…
Zulum Orders Free 10,000 Eye Surgery Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has announced the setting up of an eye camp, a programme that will provide free eye surgeries for 10,000 residents of the state suffering from various visual impairments, including cataracts. Zulum made the announcement on Monday when he flagged off a free eye…
Armed Force Remembrance Day; Celebrate Soldiers Alive Than in Death -Fubara Felix Barikui – Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has said that it is more rewarding to celebrate the gallantry of the military and members of other security agencies while they are alive than when they are dead. Governor Fubara stated…
Nigeria’s Border Facility Attacked by Terrorists Suspected terrorists have attacked the nation’s border facilities at the Kangiwa Border in Kangiwa Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The terrorists were said to have killed four persons, a local watchman and three contractors. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kenneth…