Why Things Are Not Working In Nigeria-Bode George Former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has warned the judiciary not to truncate the electoral process as it delivers judgment on the Presidential Election Petition. Naija News reports that the elder statesman, while speaking during a state-of-the-nation press conference in Lagos on Monday, said the judiciary should never go through the route of announcing any of the 2023 presidential candidates as the winner. Bode George said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) procedure was faulty; therefore, the judiciary should order a rerun. He noted that pronouncing…
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Godwin-Maria Utuedoye is a trained professional journalist. A graduate of Mass Communication from Delta State University, Abraka. He is a registered practising Journalist with the Nigeria Union of Journalists with over 20 years experience of reporting. He is interested in Investigative and development Journalism. He lives in Nigeria and focuses more in the Niger-Delta region where oil and gas exploration by government and multinational iol companies has plunged into poverty and environmental degradation for years. He is also a PR Consultant, content creator, broadcast, print Journalist and Publisher. His vast experience in journalism span over decades of reporting the activities of the untouched areas. He is married with children.
Immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum and All Progressives Congress APC, candidate governorship candidate in the November 11 gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa State. Chief Timipre Silver has implored electorate in the state to use his achievements as a former governor and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources to vote massively for him at the forthcoming gubernatorial election. According to him a support from the electorates would enable him to dislodged the incumbent PDP Governor of the state, Senator Douye Diri. Cheif Timipre Sylva and Udengs Eradiri are perceived to be strong contenders in the race. Both the APC and…
…Visits 12 Year Old Boy With Missing Intestine Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has assured the parents and concerned citizens over the case of a 12-year-old boy, Adebola Akin-Bright’s missing intestines at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Ikeja that the boy will survive by God grace. Sanwo-Olu, gave the assurance on Sunday, when he visited the victim with the parents in attendance at LASUTH, Ikeja. The governor announced that the state government would take over all the expenses for the operation to ensure the boy’s life was saved. Earlier, the management of LASUTH had absolved itself of the allegation…
Torrents of tears flows as Mr. Chima Anolue, a staff of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who was brutally murdered by his house help on July 15, 2023, was buried in his home town, Ukwu Community in Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State. The deceased, who lectured at Psychology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences of the institution, had reportedly scolded his killer for not cooking the rice he asked him to cook and for failing to wash dishes, unknown to him that the incident would lead to his untimely end. Mr. Chima Anolue, a technologist, a vocalist and choir master at the…
Two kidnapped victims in Oghara, Delta State, have been rescued by operatives of the Delta State Police Command, and also apprehends a cable vandals who specialize in steal. In a release by the Commands PPRO, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed that the DPO Oghara Division received a distress call that two persons were suspected to have been kidnapped at Oghara-Ugbenu link road and their whereabouts not known. In an ingenious display of crime fighting craft, the Divisional Police Officer of Oghara CSP Olasunkanmi Musiliu, while working on credible and technically generated information, led a combined team of police operatives of the…
The Nigeria Police Academy (POLAC), Wudil, Kano State Nigeria has announced the unfortunate demised of one its students, Mr. Sulaiman Jika of the Department of Computer Science after a brief illness. According to a release by ASP Hussain Suleman, Police Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Police Academy, the late Sulaiman was one of its cherished cadets, but succumbed to death after a brief and unexpected illness. Jika was a native of Adamawa state, on August 29, 2023, sought medical attention at the Academy Clinic due to an ailment. Following a diligent course of treatment and his gradual recovery, he was certified…
Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of Ekiti State, has warned leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, against suspending the minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike. Recall that in an interview with Channels TV on Thursday, Daniel Bwala, an aide to the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, stated that the party would expel Wike at the ‘appropriate time’ after the latter ‘dared’ the party to suspend him. Fayose, while speaking on Channels TV Hard Copy, said the PDP should rethink suspending Wike. His words, “Some people say fight Wike, expel Wike, sack Wike. I think they do…
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The Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State has commenced the process of admitting students into its newly approved courses in the College of Maritime and Offshore Studies, starting from the 2023/2024 Academic Session, having secured approval from the National Universities Commission (NUC) after a resource verification exercise carried out by its panel of experts. This information conveyed via a news release from the university also disclosed that the two (2) new full-time undergraduate programmes are B. Sc. Maritime Economics and Finance and B.Sc. Maritime Transport and Logistics, adding that “as the University continues to expand its academic…
Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, a company owned by a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, (aka Tompolo) fighting crude oil thieves in the oil rich Niger-Delta Region on Friday, September 1, 2023, hit the Nigerian Navy very hard for abandoning their statutory duties and urged the Navy to stop the blackmail, harassment of Tantita security men and the misinformation of the general public. Tantita Security Service Nigeria Limited made it clear in a statement on Friday that its men were never involved in crude oil theft as alleged…