Day: June 6, 2023

By NewsBits The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said that his support for the removal of subsidy paid on petroleum products is true but with a condition that should be empirical to the people. Obi who was cornered by judicial correspondents as he attended his ongoing election petition case at the Court of Appeal headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday said that his support for subsidy removal dates back to the Goodluck Jonathan era when he was a member of the Presidential economic management team. He…

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By NewsBits The National Industrial Court (NIC) on Monday granted an order restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) from embarking on their planned Wednesday industrial action. Justice Olufunke Anuwe also ordered that there should not be strike of any nature, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice dated June 5, 2023. The court in addition ordered that the defendants be served immediately with the processes in the suit, the Motion on Notice, and the order of the court. The court further fixed…

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By NewsBits A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a pastor, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for murder. Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State was tried for killing his choir mistress, Orlunma Nwagba, who he allegedly impregnated. He also faced murder charges for the killing of Nwagba’s friend, Chigozie Ezenwa, and her 11-month-old daughter, Cresabel, on December 11, 2017, in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state. The trial judge, S.O. Benson, said…

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President Bola Tinubu has pleaded with striking health workers to return to work, while promising that his administration would revive and restore public confidence in the health sector in Nigeria. A statement issued on Monday and signed by Director, Information, in the State House, Mr. Abiodun Oladunjoye, said the president made the commitment on Monday in his office during an audience with leaders of Joint Health Sector Union, an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress. Tinubu harped on the importance of the health sector and professionals in the sector as…

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Kwara State Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq Due to the recent fuel price hike caused by the removal of subsidies by the Federal Government, the Kwara State government has announced a three-day workweek for government employees. The decision is targeted to curtail the financial stress on the state’s residents because of the sudden increase in fuel prices. The African Examiner writes that after President Bola Tinubua announced that fuel “subsidy is gone forever” in his inauguration on May 29, petrol stations immediately increased the price of petrol from N197/litre to N540.…

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By NewsBits As the removal of oil subsidy by Nigeria’s Federal government continues to generate mixed reactions across the nation, the Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has threw it’s weight behind the decision, saying though, should be handled with Caution. The Organization, also called on the president Ahmed Bola Tinubu led Administration to take steps towards probing the spendings on the national refineries in the last eight years. Speaking with Newsmen during a media briefing on Monday in Enugu, National president of the Organization, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said there was…

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By NewsBits The Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has appealed to Nigerians to give President Bola Tinubu administration the benefit of doubt to reshape socio-economic status of the country. “President Tinubu may turn out to be the nullifier of our economic stagnation and the resorgimento of our Giant of Africa status, given his early signposts.” Okechukwu, foundation member of All Progressives Congress (APC), said while interacting with Journalists in Enugu on Sunday. The D-G VON’s appeal followed the underrated views held by journalists and many Nigerians…

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…Asks People To Ignore Further Sit-At-Home Order The factional separatist leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa has called for the cancellation of the sit-at-home order his group had been enforcing since August 2021. This was even as he told people to ignore further notices and directives of sit-at-home orders, saying he was under the influence of spell and pressure to continue the enforcement of the heinous order. Ekpa, born in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, in 1985, blamed “agents of darkness and anti-Igbo forces” for sponsoring continuous sit-at-home…

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The general public is hereby notified that one Mr. Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who has been parading himself as the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, is not and has never been the Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He is both a usurper and an impostor; an interloper who has no authority or mandate to act or speak on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. It will be recalled that on January 10th 2021, the General Assembly of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide convened at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, overwhelmingly elected Ambassador Okey Emuchay, MFR as the…

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