By Sahara Reporters The former Daily Sun correspondent in Abia State, Mr. Chucks Onuoha, who was kidnapped on Tuesday has reportedly been released. However, it is not clear whether a ransom was paid for his release as his abductors had demanded a ransom of N10 million. His wife, Mrs. Onuoha, who confirmed the release of
By Jonathan Ugbal Listen To The Report The Niger Delta States in Nigeria have failed to attract any Foreign Direct Investment, FDI in the first quarter of 2022, says the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS. The States are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers. Also, 23 other States failed
By Great Ozozoyin, DailyPost Listen To The Report The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has lamented the alleged refusal of Taraba, Zamfara, Cross River, and Abia states to implement the approved national minimum wage of N30,000. This was lucidly demonstrated today at the ongoing 110 Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, when the
By Angela Nkwo-Akpolu, Leadership Listen To The Report Fifteen young males were last weekend, arrested by the Ebubeagu Security Outfit in Ekwe community in Isu Local Government Area of Imo State. Reports suggest they were excavating sand at the Njaba River while the Palace of the Traditional Ruler, Eze Nicholas Ibekwe was also invaded and
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report The African Center for Leadership, Strategy, and Development, Center LSD, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately institutionalize the Open Government Partnership, OGP to increase transparency and trust in governance. The Executive Director of the Center LSD, Mr. Monday Osasah, made the call in a
By Idowu Bankole, Vanguard Newspaper Listen To The Report Following the seasonal, unabated crisis peculiar to some Urhobo communities in Ughelli North and South Local Government Areas of Delta State, a philanthropist, Chief Lawrence Emareyo has kick-started the process of ensuring lasting peace amongst Urhobo communities through the ‘Chief Lawrence Emareyo Community Peace Cup.’ The
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Listen To The Report Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State is currently in Abuja for a meeting with President Mohammadu Buhari and other APC Governors. The meeting was called for at the instance of the President. The meeting which is held a few days before the party’s presidential primaries scheduled for
By The ICIR The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has imported 15 power transformers to sustain its transmission expansion plan (TEP). As the TEP seeks to increase the current bulk power transmission capacity of over 7,000 megawatts, the procured transformers are expected to raise the national transmission wheeling capacity by 1,487mw. According to the TCN,