The student’s loan bill, which provides for interest-free loans to indigent Nigerian students has passed third reading at the House of Representatives. Another critical bill, which seeks to reserve 10 per cent of available jobs in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government for Persons Living With Disabilities (PLWD) also passed third reading. The two bills, which were sponsored by the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, passed third reading at the House on Wednesday in Abuja along with 10 other bills. The long titles of the speaker’s bills read, “A Bill for an Act to Repeal the Nigerian Education…
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By Seun Opejobi Three governors have backed up Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s plan to honour the invitation to attend the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. In a statement issued on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, by the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Secretary General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the apex Igbo socio-cultural body stated that governors Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State have “seconded their decision and are actively working with them to actualize it. The statement by Isiguzoro said: “Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide is mobilizing massively to attend the inauguration of President-Elect, Senator Bola…
By Adekunle Sulaimon The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri, has expressed her displeasure with the broadcasters and presenters of Arise Television over the comment made on Nigerian YouTuber Emdee Tiamiyu’s interview with British Broadcasting Corporation that assumingly corroborated the ban of Nigerian students from bringing their dependants to the United Kingdom. In a recorded video posted by a Tweep, Arewa Daddy, an Arise TV anchor, Ayo Mairo-Ese, had berated the President, Major General Muhammad Buhari (retd.), on a Morning show, for telling the UK government that Nigerian youths are lazy and criminally minded adding that Dabiri also called…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Tuesday declared his total support for the ambition of Senator Godswill Akpabio for the office of the Senate President of the 10th Senate, saying, “this is the time for me to support him because he supported me when I wanted to be the governor of River State.” Receiving members of the Stability Group, a group of Senators-elect, rooting for the emergence of Akpabio, led by its Director General, Senator Ali Ndume, Wike said, “if truly we want this country to move forward from where we are today, I see nothing wrong in the…
By Fred Edoreh This Wednesday, May 24, the 7th Session of the Delta State House of Assembly would wind up with a valedictory sitting. The Speaker, Rt Hon Elder Sheriff Oborevwori, would preside over the House for the last time in his two terms as he prepares to step up as Governor. “Seeth thou a man diligent in his duties”, it is Sheriff. Resourceful, calm and calculated, he not only set a record as the longest-serving and only two-term Speaker the Assembly has produced, but with his deep understanding that governance is a team work and his insistence on the…
By Charles Nwabardi The President Elect of the National Association Of Delta State Students Union (NADESSTU), Comrade Monday Wiska has congratulated the incoming Governor Of Delta State, Rt. Honourable Oborevwori Sheriff, as he urged him to reconsider the downward review of the high school fees in the Delta State Higher Institutions of learning pointing out that it would reduce the sufferings of Parents and increase students’ enrollment in all the State Academic Institutions. Wiska made this known on Tuesday at NUJ Press Centre, Asaba, Delta State while briefing Journalists. He also urged the incoming Governor to jettison multiple appointments incharge…
Former British Prime Minister, Sir Tony Blair, has expressed his readiness to support the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to succeed in office. Blair gave the commitment on Tuesday when he visited the president-elect at the Defence House, Abuja. He said the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which he founded, would be a willing partner of the Tinubu administration especially in prioritising its goals and delivery. He said since leaving office as the UK prime minister, he had been working with governments around the world to help them deliver on their mandates. He said Blair Institute have…
By Augustine Akanigha The Delta State House of Assembly has thoroughly screened and confirmed the newly constituted Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Board , during the Tuesday 23rd May, 2023 plenary, in the hollow chamber of the state house of assembly, at Asaba, the state capital. The plenary which was presided over by the Speaker and Delta State Governor elect, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Francis Orohwedor Oborevwori red the names on the floor of the house through a letter from the Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa conveying the names that to be screened and confirmed which includes; Olorogun…
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, has called on journalists to carve a niche for themselves by giving attention to issues in the grassroots in their reportage. He particularly challenged members of Indigenous Correspondents’ Chapel (ICC) of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ) in the state to, as local reporters, mirror the rural communities to the government and public and vice versa. Ifeajika made the call when he received the new Executive Committee members of ICC who visited him at his office at Government House, Asaba. He urged them to redirect their reportorial…
By BRIDGET AGETU President Muhammadu Buhari today commissioned the second Niger bridge linking the South East with other parts of the country. The 336 billion naira bridge regarded as a legacy project was commissioned alongside six other road project by the president via an online platform, Zoom. President Buhari explained that his administration’s commitment to upgrade infrastructure in the project was a deliberate choice to fight poverty and provide development for Nigerians. He disclosed that some of the borrowed funds by his administration were used for the execution of major projects across the country. The President said the bridge and…