The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia state, Prof. Eleazar Ikonne is dead. In a statement, son of the deceased, Uche Ikonne, said his father died on Wednesday at the National Hospital in Abuja, after a brief illness. He said his father died at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Wednesday morning after…
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, resolved to invite Deposit Money Banks, also known as commercial banks, on Wednesday over the scarcity of new naira notes. The Punch reports that the Managing Directors/Chief Executive Officers of the banks, under the auspices of the Bankers’ Committee, are to meet with an ad hoc committee of the…
A Kaduna State High Court on Monday ordered the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to “immediately” charge Tukur Mamu to Court for offences he is being alleged to have committed. Mamu, publisher of Kaduna based Desert Herald and media consultant to a controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, was arrested by the DSS in Cairo,…
The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, resolved to invite Deposit Money Banks, also known as commercial banks, on Wednesday over the scarcity of new naira notes. The Punch reports that the Managing Directors/Chief Executive Officers of the banks, under the auspices of the Bankers’ Committee, are to meet with an ad hoc committee of the…
The Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom on Monday, inaugurated the state secretariat of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Makurdi, the state capital. The governor also laid the foundation for the construction of a 30- room guests house for the association and announced a donation of N50 million by the state government as its…
The court of appeal sitting in Markurdi, Benue state, has ordered the All Progressives Congress (APC) to conduct fresh governorship primary in 11 LGAs. A three-member panel of the appellate court delivered the judgment on Monday, in an appeal filed by a governorship aspirant of the APC, Terhemba Shija, who lost at the primary election…
