Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has, again, approved payment of 13th month salary to Imo civil servants as they prepare for this year’s Christmas and New Year celebrations. The governor gave the approval at the state Executive Council meeting, yesterday. According to a statement signed by the Uzodimma’s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku, the…
In the light of the continued rise in the prices of goods, transport fares and skyrocketing inflation, federal university lecturers have lamented that the refusal of the Federal Government to pay their seven and a half months outstanding salaries and the delay in paying their December salary have foisted on them a bleak Christmas. Similarly,…
Bianca Ojukwu former Nigeria Ambassador to Spain and Permanent Representative to the UNWTO was the special guest as the spectacular annual CKP Christmas Festival at the coal city of Enugu. The show stopping beauty queen and wife of late Igbo leader Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who was the special guest at the event created a…
An Israeli startup company, called AIR ONE has successfully completed the first unmanned cruise flight of its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL). The company is now targeting the end of 2024 when it would begin to sell the first batch of flying aircraft to the general public The country’s Civil Aviation Authority witnessed the…
Anap Foundation, a non-profit organisation, says the recently released NOI polls on the 2023 presidential election followed the same methodology as its previous polls. On Wednesday, the organisation released the December edition of the 2023 presidential pre-election opinion poll. The results projected that Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) is ahead among the four…
As testimonies continue in the ongoing Osun Tribunal sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, a forensic expert, Mr Samuel Oduntan, yesterday told the Tribunal that Senator Ademola Adeleke duly won the July 16 election with 402,349 votes to beat Mr Gboyega Oyetola who polled 374,256. The report which the Tribunal accepted as a key document…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested an ex-convict who specializes in using a telephone number to send threatening messages to different people in the state, IGBERETV reports. Speaking during a press briefing held on December 21, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, said investigations by the police led to the arrest of…
The Cameroon and Internazionale Goalkeeper Andre Onana has announced his retirement from international football. He was left out of the Cameroon squad for his country’s second game of the World Cup after having a disagreement with manager Rigobert Song over tactics. Cameroon Goalkeeper, Onana Quits International Football At 26 – Sports – Nigeria (nairaland.com)
A non-governmental organisation dedicated to feeding and clothing kids, “Mission Feed Foundation” owned by Amb. Ademayowa Mabel Odukoya organised a beautiful Christmas fiesta for children and their families in Badore axis of Lagos on Saturday the 17th of December, to wind down the year 2022 on a very high note. At the event, the children…
2 people were killed and 4 injured in a shooting in central Paris on Friday, police and prosecutors said & the shooter, 69, had been arrested. The gunman’s motives remain unclear, with 2/4 of the injured left in a serious condition, the French officials said. UPDATE: Three people have been killed and four others injured after…