Carnival Calabar Created Over 40,000 Direct Jobs Since Inception: Chairman
He said the commission inherited 5,000 direct employments within the creative industry but could now boast over 40,000 through the carnival. By News Agency of Nigeria Gabe Onah, the Carnival…
Agric Ministry Sets Aside N5bn To Rehabilitate Roads, Install Transformers In Akpabio’s District
However, the budget provisions to rehabilitate roads in only Akpabio’s senatorial district do not match the ministry’s mandate. By Daniel Ojukwu, FIJ The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is looking to spend…
FULL LIST: All Past Ondo Governors Dead Except Mimiko
Their passing on re-echoes the words of English poet and playwright, Williams Shakespeare, who described the world as a stage where each person plays his part and leaves. By Alao Abiodun,…
Surveillance Contract Workers Protest Alleged Manipulation In Delta
The protesters alleged a non-indigenous contractor from OFAGBE Community OML 26 hijacked the contract. By Akpokona Omafuaire, Vanguard Newspaper INFIELD surveillance workers from OML30 cluster 5,6,8 and 9 area B,…
Don Lauds Delta Community Group For Tackling Illiteracy, Unemployment
Speaking at the ceremony, Aghalino maintained that an association like the IPA deserves commendation because “it has been able to garner and personify its challenges and how it can solve…
Joseph Wayas: Customs Forbid Burial Outside Our Community – Monarch
Meanwhile, there has been a lingering family feud between Wayas’ children. By Richard Ndoma, Leadership Newspaper Amid the controversy over the burial of former Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas, the…
Contractor Abandons Building Of New Health Centre In Akure After Lawmaker’s Death
By Alaba Adeyemi, Development News Nigeria (DNN) In 2019, Adedayo Omolafe who was representing Akure South and North Federal constituency in the House of Representatives nominated a project for the…
JUST IN: Gov Otu Signs N296bn Budget Into Law
The new budget bucket has a capital expenditure of N180 billion and a recurrent expenditure of N116 billion. By The Converseer Governor Bassey Otu has signed the ‘Peoples First’ Budget…
Quinquagenarian Marries Four-Year-Old Girl, Rights Group Kicks
“The little ‘bride’ said if she were not allowed to marry her husband, she would have no other business in the Akeddei community,” said a source. By News Agency of…
JUST IN: Calas Vegas Beat 6 Other Bands To Emerge Winner Of 2023 Carnival Calabar
Calas Vegas band managed by former Minister of Culture and Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke is one of the bands created last year alongside Diamond Band. By Sylvia Akpan And…
How AI Shaped Misinformation Landscape In 2023 – Report
The report also highlighted a growing phenomenon of bad actors creating entire websites generated by AI and operating with little to no human oversight. By Nurudeen Akewushola, FactCheck Hub The…
Girlfriend Shoots Policeman To Death In Imo
Ugwu was shot dead on Tuesday by his 23-year-old lover, who was identified as Amanda Uchechi Ugo, a native of Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. By Dare…
NICRAT Partners NPHCDA On Integration Of Cancer In Primary Healthcare
By Ojoma Akor, Daily Trust The National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT) has called on the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to partner with it towards…
BREAKING: Ondo Governor Akeredolu Dies At 67
The former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) died at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday at a German hospital where he was receiving treatment. By FIJ Rotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State…
Police Arrest Kidnappers Of Car Dealer’s Wife In Calabar
Locally made pistols, ammunition, phones and other valuable items were recovered from them. By Frank Ulom, The Converseer Two persons have been arrested by the police in Cross River over…
Gunmen Kill Youth Leader, Abduct 4 Others In Cross River Speaker’s Village
Nde Three Corners has become notorious for kidnappings and other violent crimes in recent months. By Richard Ndoma, Leadership Newspaper Tragedy struck the Nde Three Corners Community in Ikom, Cross…
Tragic Fire Claims Lives Of Late PDP Chairman’s Wife, Sister In Akwa Ibom
The cause of the fire was not specified in the statement. By Ima Elijah, Pulse A devastating fire engulfed the residence of the late Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party…
NDLEA Seizes 2.05 Tons Of Hard Drugs, Arrests 223 Suspects In Cross River
The State Commander, Rachel Umebuali, disclosed this in an interview in Calabar on Monday. By News Agency of Nigeria National Drug Law Enforcement Agency command in Cross River, says a…
UNICAL Promotes 18 Academic Staff To Professional Cadre
Prof. Florence Banku Obi disclosed this at the 238th Senate of the institution. By George Odok The Senate of the University of Calabar has announced the promotion of 18 staff…
Ondo Agency And FG At Loggerhead While Miner Operating With Child Labour Goes Unchecked
This report by Development News Nigeria, Alaba Adeyemi of DNN looks into the activities of an illegal Quarry at Ijigba, Ondo state operating in contravention of the 2007 Nigerian Mineral…
Investigation: Uncertainties Over Execution Of IFAD Projects In Jigawa, Yobe Despite Release Of Funds
By Elijah Akoji, SolaceBase Lack of access roads and warehouses for storage of grains for rural farmers were the key reasons for the multi-billion naira Climate Change Adaptation and Agribusiness…
Dust And Blood: How The Abandoned Yala-Ogoja-Bekwarra-Obudu Road Is Destroying Lives Despite Over N20 Billion Releases
By Ogar Monday, CrossRiverWatch When Beatrice Ochuole kissed her husband goodbye on the morning of the 12th of June, 2018, she didn’t expect that she would return to his lifeless…
Ondo Acting Governor, Aiyedatiwa Suspends Akeredolu’s Chief Protocol Officer, Announces Replacement
By SaharaReporters Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Ondo State acting Governor, has suspended the Chief of Protocol to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, Bola Alabi, and replaced him with the Deputy Chief of Staff,…
27 Rivers Lawmakers Can Meet Anywhere Outside Assembly Complex – APC
By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis, Punch Newspaper The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress said the embattled 27 members of the House of Assembly do not need the demolished House of…
With Four Soldiers Killed, Two Koreans Kidnapped, Security Concerns Mount in Rivers
•Oil production may be impacted if the crisis persists •Ann-Kio Briggs warns situation may engulf Nigeria, President •PDP: Why we’ve not taken action on Wike By Emmanuel Addeh and Alex…
Senate President Akpabio Confirms SaharaReporters’ Report, Admits To Slumping After His Birthday Colloquium In Abuja
By SaharaReporters Senate President Godswill Akpabio has admitted that he slumped after his birthday colloquium in Abuja, as reported by SaharaReporters. Sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday that the Senate President…
Rivers Crisis: Seven Commissioners Resign From Fubara’s Cabinet
By Emmanuel Egobiambu, Channels TV The Rivers State Commissioner of Transportation, Dr. Jacobson B. Nbina, State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Prince Chinedu, as well as the State Commissioner for Housing, Gift…
Enugu: Diversion Of Water Channels For Road Construction Endangers Community
By Ben Aro, The Whistler Every community prays for access roads to attract development and ease livelihood. In 2016, the Enugu State government constructed a nine-kilometre road network from Obechara,…
BREAKING: Naval Officers Rescue Paramount Ruler Of Akpabuyo, Kill 10 Kidnappers
By TheInvestigator The Paramount Ruler of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, HRH Etinyin Lawrence Edet Nya who was kidnapped on Monday, December 11, 2023, has been rescued.…
Why We Demolished Assembly Complex – Rivers Gov’t
By Davies Iheamnachor, Vanguard Newspaper The Rivers State Government has explained that its decision to demolish and rebuild the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex was based on advice from…