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The Abia Central PDP Zonal Chairman, Chief Chukwudi Ezebuiro has frowned at the recent clandestine meetings and attendant communiqués flying around on the issue of the successor of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. In a Press Statement signed by Chief Ezebuiro and sighted by ABIAPULSENEWS, the party chieftain stated that the focus of every genuine PDP member should be to “encourage our...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay $951 million to the Bayelsa Government. The amount is the 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue and payable to the Bayelsa government. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the judgment, held that the Attorney- General of the Federation (AGF), the sole defendant in the case, failed...

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and its joint venture partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay N81.9 billion to Ibeno villages in Akwa Ibom State for oil pollution in the communities. The judge ordered the oil companies to pay the money within 14 days, after which...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday approved the appointment of Mr. George Ekpungu as the new Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Dr. Umar Gwandu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Ekpungu served as the Commissioner for New Cities Development in Cross River State from...

The hearing of the suit filed by Slok, a firm owned by the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), would continue on July 13. The firm is seeking for the court to restrain EFCC from a retrial in the alleged N7.1 billion fraud case against it and its chairman Kalu. Justice Inyang...

Senate Minority leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, on Sunday, decried the marginalization of Ndigbo in Nigeria, saying no amount of threat would stop the people of the South-East from demanding equity and fair treatment in the country. Abaribe, who stated this at the inauguration of the Igbonine socio-cultural organization in Enugu, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been exhibiting sectional leadership and...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi on his victory at the just concluded election. President Buhari, in a statement issued Monday by his media aide, Garba Shehu, said the election of Raisi again reinforced the centrality of the will of the people to the success of democracy anywhere in the world. He advised the President-elect “to unite...

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) may face challenges after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Lawan gave the warning on Monday night in a speech delivered to close the First Progressives Youth Conference 2021 which held at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. He said the party must begin to plan ahead to sustain...

The Senate says it is has no plan to stiffen the media freedom in Nigeria. Senate spokesman, Senator Ajibola Basiru, stated this on Monday on the sideline of a two-day capacity building training for media aides to Principal Officers of the National Assembly, organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Abuja. The House of Representatives is currently amending...

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State on Monday, claimed that most of the bandits terrorising the country are not Nigerians. The governor said this while charging Nigerians to try their best not to “make them succeed in forcing us to change our normal lives. “Most of these bandits are from outside the country. They are hired to cause problems for...