TUC to IGP: Provide security cover for protesters

TUC President, Festus Osifo, briefs journalists in Abuja on July 25, 2024 | Image: Channelstv ‘Prices of food and basic commodities have gone through the roof in the last months as Nigerians battle one of the country’s worst inflation and economic crises’ By Valentine Amanze All appears set for the 10-day nationwide protest against hunger […]

Photo: Onyewuchi dumps LP, joins APC

APC Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Enukwu (left); Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State; Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, and others after Onyewuchi’s defection to the APC from the Labour Party at the floor of the Senate… Tuesday. Also read: Photo: Uzodimma, other APC governors visit Ganduje

Tinubu’s aide urges Nigerian youths to shun protest

Chioma Nweze | File Image By Nweze Anaga, Abakaliki The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement South East, Mrs. Chioma Nweze, has urged Nigerian youths to shun the planned nationwide hunger protest and embrace peace. She said that the president was doing everything possible to alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians. She stated […]

Are the Igbo not Nigerians?

Aunty Bolanle Why do you hate them? Aunty Bolanle, a Yoruba lady, expresses disdain over insult of Ndigbo on her X Dear fellow Nigerians,  a yoruba adage says, “Ti a ba nsun ekun a ma nri ran.”  Crying shouldn’t get in the way of clear vision. Enough of this scapegoating of the Igbo. They wanted […]

How boat mishap claimed 20 lives in Ebonyi

Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State | File Image  Lawmaker commiserates with victims’ families By Nweze Anaga, Abakaliki Tregedy struck in Ebonyi State on Tuesday 23, 2024, as no fewer than 20 women drowned after their boat capsized. The Ozizza women from Afikpo North Local Government Area were returning from a business trip when the […]