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10th National Assembly: Akwa Ibom lawmaker sponsors highest number of bills in one year
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares…Gets speaker’s commendation Hon. Patrick Umoh PhD, member representing Ikot Ekpene/Essien Udim/Obot Akara federal constituency has sponsored the highest quality of bills on constitutional amendment in the first legislative year of the 10th assembly of the House of Representatives. Hon. Umoh sponsored 14 quality Bills which are currently at various legislative stages, 12 motions…
COTR holds presentation for Ahta Oro VIII
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Council of Oro Traditional Rulers (COTR) on Saturday, carried out the presentation ceremony for the newly selected Ahta Oro VIII, His Eminence Ita Edet Okokon, Isonsi 1 and Paramount Ruler of Okobo Local Government Area. The event by the highest traditional institution in Oro Nation, conducted at Obio Ufre, Enweme in Okobo LGA…
Court clears way for Ahta Oro presentation ceremony
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Akwa Ibom State High Court has declined granting an injunction against the recently selected Ahta Oro, His Eminence Edidem Ita Edet Okokon, paving the way for his presentation ceremony to hold as scheduled. The ceremony, organized by the Council of Oro Traditional Rulers (COTR), will take place on Saturday, August 17, 2024, at…
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares#Endbadgovernance peters out on Day 6 The nationwide protests launched by more than two dozen groups in the country may have run out of steam as they entered their sixth day today, 6th August. The Punch cites Channels TV as reporting that there were no protests anywhere in Lagos and Abuja, which became…
Breaking – Tinubu addresses nation tomorrow
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Hunger protests: Protesters defy plea, continue demonstrations in Lagos, Port Harcourt
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares Hunger protests: Protesters defy pleas, continue demonstrations in Lagos, Port Harcourt After two days of demonstrations across the country, protesters have again gathered in Lagos and Port Harcourt in Nigeria’s coastal state of Rivers as they continue to push for their demands. The demonstrations which began on August 1 in several cities are…
EndbadgovernanceinNigeria
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares #EndbadgovernanceinNigeria protests turn violent Concerns, genuine or not, expressed by those opposed to the EndbadgovernanceinNigeria protests that they could become violent, came true by the close of the first day of the scheduled 10-day event yesterday. The protests, carried out in most parts of the country reportedly witnessed a huge turnout in Abuja,…
Hunger protests kick off in Nigeria
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares • Deaths reported in Kaduna, Niger States •Lagos, Ibadan, Jos peaceful • Uyo, Lokoja missing from action •Abuja, Kaduna, Kano violent The #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria nationwide protests scheduled to begin today and to last through 10 August, in spite of official warnings started off in different states of the country, including Abuja, the Federal Capital…
#EndBadGovernance protests Nigeria on edge
ShareShareTweetPin0 Shares• Security agents warn against violence •Planners rebuff appeals to stay action •Govt Security agents on high alert, take over Eagles Square Abuja 46 months after the bloody #EndSARS protests of October 2020, Nigeria, baring any unexpected change, seems set to witness another round of nationwide protests, starting from today. With the hashtag, #EndBadGovernance,…
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu dead
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe president general of the pan-Igbo social cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, is dead. The Frontier online newspaper quotes his son, Jude, as making this information known in a statement. Publisher of Champion, the late business mogul was a chieftain of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and a popular face within…