By Patrick Obia United Kingdom-based Cross Riverian, Iso Bassey has expressed optimism about the 2023 Nigeria general elections. In an interview with journalists in Calabar Municipal LGA, his hometown while exercising his franchise during the Presidential and National Assembly elections, he said as a Nigerian, it is important for him to fly down wherever he
By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole and Esther Blankson, The Punch Newspaper The National Industrial Court on Tuesday adjourned the Federal government suit against the Academic Staff Union of Universities until March 28 for ruling. The claimants, the Federal Government and the Minister of Education, had dragged ASUU before the court in August 2022 over the then strike,
On November 20, 2022, Equatorial Guineans reportedly re-elected 80-year-old Teodoro Obiang Mbassogo Nguema, for a sixth tenure of seven years as President of their country. By this, Nguema’s 43-year rule has been further elongated till when he, God willing, shall clock 87 on this planet. Nguema does not play alone in this league of septuagenarian
By Ben Aroh, The Whistler Simon Ekpa, self-styled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in a viral video, imposed a sit-at-home and curfew on the South East and some parts of the old Eastern Region during the 2023 general elections. His orders span from February 23rd to 28th 2023. Nigeria’s presidential and National
By Patrick Obia Thousands of Nigerians will not cast their ballots during the 2023 general elections due to the devastating flood across the country last year. The flood which affected nearly all the states of the federation swept away homes and farmlands, killing several people. The flood did not only bring hardship and anguish but
By Theophilus Adedokun, The ICIR Thirteen of the 18 registered political parties in Nigeria have threatened to withdraw from the 2023 general elections over the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The political parties said they will withdraw from the election if the CBN extends the February 10 deadline for use
How a violent conflict in the resource-rich Niger Delta has wrought ecological and economic devastation for a generation. Listen to this story Play 00:00:0001:12:34 As the three women from Otuabagi tell it, the Niger Delta’s woes began with a simple yet consequential misunderstanding. The European engineers came to the village in 1956, four years before
By QueenEsther Iroanusi, Premium Times The Senate has transmitted 35 of the 44 Constitution amendment bills to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. The lawmakers, on Tuesday, directed the Clerk to the National Assembly to transmit the 35 bills – that have so far met the requirement of the provision of Section 9(2) of the Constitution –