Friday Bako

Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has rejected plans by the federal government to establish “cattle colonies” for Fulani Herdsmen and their cows in Abia State. In a release signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Enyinnaya Appolos, the Governor stated that Abia state will not cede any part of her territory to Fulani herdsman […]

Today, the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria to suspend the excessive ATM card maintenance charges being deducted from customers. This resolution came as part of a motion on the illicit and excessive bank charges on customers accounts, sponsored by Senator Olugbenga Ashafa . The Senate […]

The IMF has granted debt service relief to 25 countries, most of them in Africa, to cushion the effects of COVID-19. But Nigeria has been conspicuously denied this ‘paliative’. Why? IMF, other Bretton Woods financial institutions and the West know that Nigeria is a very rich country which resources have been stolen by very few […]

Chairman House Committee on Human Right and member representing Jos South/Jos East Federal constituency of Plateau State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Edward Pwajok , has explained that the immunity bill pass for legislature during the constitutional amendment does not protect legislators of criminal offences. He said any legislator who commits criminal offences or […]

The publicised 2018 budget presentation by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was unceremoniously called off yesterday following an apparent misunderstanding between the executive and the state House of Assembly.The action of the lawmakers is the first since Okorocha became governor in 2011. A statement issued on Sunday, November 26, by Okorocha’s Chief Press Secretary, […]