Abia State News

The indigenes of Okpokoroala in Uratta Autonomous Community,  Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area in Abia State, on Monday brought operations at the Aba depot of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to a standstill during a protest over an alleged neglect of the community by the organisat…

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday came under attack over their separate remarks on the growing calls for the restructuring of the country. Groups that faulted latest comments credited to Buhari and Osinbajo on the calls include the opposition Peoples Democra…

We would not have given him the document if he didn’t apply. It is only Buhari or a court that can ask for the results. There is no other person. So he asked for it  –WAEC No, the President did not apply for the documents. I made this clear in an opinion I wrote on Friday. The presentation of t…

The Senator representing Bayelsa East at the National Assembly, Ben Murray Bruce, has attacked the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo reportedly opting to learn the trending “shaku shaku” dance steps for electioneering. The lawmaker berated the Vice President for not rather doing more to restor…

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has appeared in a video clip allegedly receiving bribe amounting to about $5million from contractors in the state. Contractors told DAILY NIGERIAN that the governor personally receives between 15 to 25 per cent kickbacks for every project executed in the s…

Nigerians Twitter family has finally dredged up a video where the Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said that his former Vice President has always been working to remove him from office. His testimonies on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar is trending online and …

Over seven months after the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram insurgents, Mrs Rebecca Sharibu, mother of the kidnapped schoolgirl, has filed an action at the Federal High Court in Lagos, claiming N500m damages. Leah Sharibu was one of the 110 female students of Government Girls’ Scienc…

L-R: National Organizing Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party , Col Austin Akobundu (rtd), Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; and Senator Ben Bruce, during the submission of the Former Vice President’s presidential form at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja ... on Thursday. Photo: Olatu…

Loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari have begun moves to take control of the Department of State Services ahead of the 2019 general elections,  It was gathered that the loyalists, who were working in tandem with a cabal in the Presidency, had already given the acting DG of the Service, Mr Mat…

Governors of the South-East states rose from a meeting in Enugu on Sunday evening with a decision that no land would be made available for the establishment of cattle ranches in the zone. The meeting, which held at the Enugu State Government House, had the governors of Enugu (Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi), E…

The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum has expressed fear that the Independent National Electoral Commission may not deliver free and fair elections in 2019. It noted that “the bug of nepotism and sectionalism that this administration is renowned for has also eaten up the leadership of the …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday directed that the nation’s Democracy Day will, henceforth, hold on June 12 of every year as against the current arrangement where the ceremony holds on May 29. Buhari also resolved to honour the winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, …

There was a mild drama on the Banana Island Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos State, on Saturday after residents waylaid the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, who had allegedly visited the estate to inaugurate a project. Buratai, our correspondent learnt, had been invited by the Nigerian Army Pro…

The police have given President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, till Wednesday to present his written defence on his alleged link  with suspected robbers, who invaded banks  in Offa on April 4. Saraki, who disclosed this on Monday  in his facebook and tweeter handle, had earlier said that he was …

The Department of State Services (DSS) on Sunday recalled half of its operatives officially allocated to Senate President Bukola Saraki and the speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. This is coming ahead of Monday’s talks between Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the nPDP team to be led…

GOVERNOR IKPEAZU VISITS OVIM GIRLS, APPROVE ELECTRICITY TRANSFORMER, PROMISE MORE SECURITY   Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, in company of his wife, Deaconess Nkechi Ikpeazu, paid a surprise visit to Methodist Girls Model Secondary School (Formerly known as Ovim Girls Secondary school I…

The Chairman, PUNCH Nigeria Limited, Mr. Gbadebowale Wayne  Aboderin, is dead. He died on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 6.05am after a heart surgery at the First Cardiology Consultants, Ikoyi, Lagos, at the age of 60. Aboderin took over as the Chairman of the company’s Board on May 1, 2011, follo…

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has taken a swipe at those he said were working against him in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Okorocha spoke in Owerri on Tuesday while briefing journalists as part of this year’s Democracy Day celebrations. Reacting to the recent happenings in the pa…