A business woman, Mrs Ojoma Nuel, yesterday dragged her husband, Thomas, before a Customary Court in Nyanya, Abuja, for allegedly denying her of “conjugal rights”. Ojoma, who resides in Jikwoyi area of Abuja, also accused her husband of domestic violence. The woman, who is seeking for divorce, said her husband no longer cared about her and their only child. “My husband has practically denied me of my conjugal rights; he doesn’t care to know how I feel, or what my needs are in that aspect. “I have suffered repeated physical abuse and violence from Thomas, including blows, slaps, locked out of…
Author: Spade Nigeria
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of fighting for the retention of old naira notes for the purpose of using it to buy votes in the forthcoming general elections. Spokesman of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Charles Aniagwu who stated this at a news conference in Asaba, said that the ruling party was hiding under the guise of fighting for the suffering masses to perfect its illicit plans of spending its stashed old notes on vote buying. He said that the PDP having engaged Nigerians on how it intends to recover…
The Federal Government has said it would obey the ruling of the Supreme Court suspending the February 10 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on the exchange of naira notes. Recall that the apex court in its ruling on Wednesday, suspended the February 10 deadline on the old naira notes which expires today. The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, who confirmed this in an in terview on Arise TV yesterday, said the government was hopeful that the ex parte ruling which expires on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, would be upturned. He said the CBN, which…
By Fred ODU A support group working for the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February and March elections in Delta state, the Midwesterners, has taken a strong exception to the derogatory comments against the State Governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the party, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, by foremost Ijaw leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. The former Minister of Information had, in an open letter, which he also presented to the press, berated Okowa over a phantom N250bn loan and demanded for his resignation as Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
The Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Ika Federal Constituency, Hon. Doris Uboh, MNSE, has continued to rally and mobilize support for the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima as President and Vice-President of Nigeria, in her wards visitation series which has since started in earnest. Doris Uboh, an indigene of Ekuku-Agbor Community and immediate past Member Representing Ika Federal Constituency, is on her final sensitization and “pull out the votes campaign” and has called on Ika voters to stay on the winning side of the APC by voting her and the Presidential Candidate…
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike approved the Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Elekahia, Port Harcourt, for the campaign of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, on February 15, 2023. Tony Okocha, Rivers State Coordinator of the Bola Tinubu Campaign Organization, said this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Okocha stated that all preparations had been made to guarantee that the APC presidential standard bearer’s rally went off without a hitch. Okocha said that Wike permitted the stadium’s usage out of kindness, without collecting the N5m money mandated by Executive Order 21 from the campaign council. He…
The apex organisation of all civil society groups in Nigeria, Civil Society Central Coordinating Council (CSCCC), on Wednesday, February 8, stormed the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Abuja, to protest against the ruling of the supreme court on the deadline for use of old naira notes. The national coordinator of CSCCC, Obed Okwukwe, while speaking on Wednesday, urged Buhari to issue an executive order maintaining February 10 as the deadline for use of old naira notes. Okwukwe added that the apex court order did not restrain the exercise of the constitutional powers of the president. He also…
By Dr Festus G Okubor. Human beings are nurtured and sustained by what they eat and this is the reason why they take care of and give a lot of premium to cuisines and the attendant benefits. Food is inevitable for life, growth, well-being, and evolution. Human beings eat every day. Among the Urhobo people of Delta State and by extension the whole State and even the South-South zone, one very significant food is the Ukodo which has for ages taken the lead in terms of the people’s culinary pleasure. The cuisine Ukodo is symbolic and holds a great attraction…
By Friday Ewiwilem, writing from Asaba. More than ten years ago when he proclaimed to the world that he had turned eighty years of age, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, said that he was already in the departure lounge with his boarding pass to exit the world. He said that at eighty he had done everything there was to be done and that he was ready to bid farewell to the world. As Africans who cherish long life, many people prayed for Clark to live longer in good health, but that he should reduce his propensity to causing trouble. Those who…
From a mile away, Deltans can smell the scam in this correspondence transmitted to the Delta State House of Assembly by Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa. A man who hides behind a finger probably thinks no one is seeing him. Everyone can see Okowa clearly, though he thinks otherwise. The Ukraine and Russia war started over a year ago. Two weeks to elections Okowa wants the government he has led for 8 years, to invest in the production of gas in the twilight of his departure. What has he being doing all this while, that he now suddenly realised there is money…