Month: July 2025

Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, has ordered the immediate redeployment of security personnel, including the camp commandant at the Government House, Osadebey Avenue, Benin. The order followed the humiliation of hundreds of party supporters, journalists and others on Friday when they were locked out of the victory party at the Government House. The party supporters […]

Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, has launched a comprehensive overhaul of the state’s urban water infrastructure, beginning with the revitalisation of the long-abandoned Ugboha Water Supply Scheme in Edo Central Senatorial District to address the challenge of water scarcity in the state. The managing director and chief executive officer of the Edo State Urban Water […]

Minister of Finance and the coordinating minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has said that Abia State governor, Alex Otti, has shown capacity with the state’s funds. Edun made the claim on Friday at the launch of the State Integrated Infrastructure Development (ABSIID) project funds in Umuahia, the state capital. Represented by Oyadele Akande, he […]

Ebonyi State governor, Francis Nwifuru, has described the banishment of the former chairman of Edda local government area, Dr Eni Uduma Chima and his younger brother, Uduma Chima by the town union of the community as null and void. The governor said the action of the town union against the two brothers, negates the principles […]

The Imo State government, in a renewed move to address growing concerns over uncontrolled cattle grazing in Owerri, has set July 24, 2025, as the deadline to end open grazing in the state capital. This was made known by the commissioner for Livestock Development, Dr Anthony Mgbeahurike, during a meeting with cattle breeders and herders […]

It is not a trade policy. It is not infrastructure. It is not security. If West Africa is to escape the fate of being a continent of perpetual potential, the real battleground, its most powerful lever is identity. Not in the sociocultural sense, but in the verifiable, cross-border, digital sense. That was the radical argument […]

The special assistant (SA) to the Akwa Ibom State governor on Grassroots Mobilisation, Dr Ephraim Okon, has noted that the defection of his boss to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has triggered a significant shift in the South-South political equation, with only Bayelsa allegedly warming up to join the fray. Speaking with journalists at the […]

Nigeria and France have mapped out strategies on how to strengthen  cooperation in the critical areas of trade and investment security, education, culture and others. This was contained in a statement issued  by Magnus Eze, special assistant on Communication and New Media, office of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, stressing that both countries intend […]

African exporters and entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a new package of UK trade reforms known as the Trade for Development,which was unveiled on July 10, 2025. According to a statement issued by Onyinye Madu, Press Officer at the British High Commission in Abuja the scheme is designed to simplify access to the UK […]

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC),/Transparency International have urged  Nigeria’s defence institutions  to prioritise transparency and access to information . Executive Director of CISLAC/Transparency International T-Nigeria, Mr. Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani, disclosed this  in Enugu, during a media briefing to disseminate its South East Regional Policy Brief, titled, ‘Nigeria’s Defence Sector persistent Corruption Risk […]