1. Local government is an equal sub- national federating unit in Nigeria. 2. Nigeria now has three tiers of government namely Federal, states and local government. 3. The local governments will start controlling their finances instead of the state. 4. ...

CIVIL WAR Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged the Church in Nigeria to be vigilant and not allow itself to be used by desperate politicians who desire power at all costs in the 2023 general elections. The governor stated this ...

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to skip the backlog of academic sessions halted by their seven months strike if the federal government persists on the no work no pay rule. ASUU members, mainly of the University of ...

By Dapo Akinrefon, Steve Oko & Umar Yusuf Amid confusion over the identity of the person who took the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to court, a former presidential aspirant on the ...

The Zone 6 Police Headquarters in Calabar, Cross River State, has berated the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, and its Zonal Manager, Collins Igwe, for slamming a N31m bill on it and disconnecting its power supply. A statement titled ‘RE: ...

Nsikan Abasi Utuk In recent times, there has been concern over reports of a lady who was said to have died from a snake bite when she was using the toilet in her apartment leading to many asking how that ...

Founder and Senior Pastor of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt, David Ibiyeomie, has said anyone who allows his phone to ring in a church is a poor man. The clergyman, who said this while delivering a sermon to his congregation on ...

From Tony John, Port Harcourt Six state governors in the South South region have demanded the upward review of oil derivation formula from the present 13 per cent to 50 per cent.They have also demanded that Cross River State should ...

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says Nigeria should be competing with developed countries considering its years as an independent entity.Nigeria will mark its 61st Independence Day anniversary on October 1.Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers capital, on Sunday, Wike expressed ...