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Ebonyi State Commissionerdies In Auto-crash, As Ebonyi Holds Pray

His Excellency Engr. David Umahi, the Executive Governor of Ebonyi StateThe Commissioner for Infrastructure Concession and Development, Engr Fidelis Nweze, is dead. A two-time Commissioner in the state, Engr Nweze, was traveling to Enugu on Saturday, in the company of his driver, when their vehicle rammed into a stationary articulated vehicle at the busy Eke Obinagu axis of Enugu North …

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Court Sentences Farouk Lawan to 7 Years Imprisonment

A federal capital territory (FCT) high court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced Farouk Lawan, former chairman of the federal house of representatives ad-hoc committee on fuel subsidy, to seven years imprisonment over the $3 million bribery charges preferred against him by the federal government. Lawan was the chairman of the house of representatives ad hoc committee probing the multi-billion …

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Twitter Ban: President Buhari Loses Round One, Gets ECOWAS Court Knocks

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other Nigerians who are Twitter users, …

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Buhari approves FG’s team to engage with Twitter over suspension

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking site in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who will chair the team. The Federal Government’s …

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3 Bodies Recovered So Far From LPG Tanker Explosion In Ikeja Lagos…NEMA

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday explained that a Liquefied Petroleum Gas ( LPG) tanker had exploded while …

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Buhari’s Words Against Ndigbo, Not Presidential Enough … Archbishop Opoko Rejects ” Dot-In-A-Circle Statement”

Most Rev. Dr. Chibuzo Raphael Opoko, the Methodist Archbishop of Umuahia and Bishop of Umuahia has, amidst indignation, debunkedPresident Mohammed Buhari’s derogatory statement which likened the Igbo nation to as “a dot-in-a-circle”, saying it is unpresidential to say the least. Rev. Dr. Opoko, described bluntly Buhari’s pejorative choice of simile as inappropriate of him as a President, being a father …

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WUHAN: THOUSANDS OF MOSQUITOES INOCULATED WITH VIAGRA ESCAPE FROM LABORATORY

Thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes inoculated with Viagra have potentially escaped from a high-security laboratory in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan Institute of Virology announced the security breach yesterday claiming that the genetically modified mosquitoes were harmless to the population. Dr. Wenzi Ying Yin Jing, head researcher at the institute, warned that the most disturbing side effects of a bite from …

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