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The South East Zonal Working committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have affirmed the Ndubuisi Nwobu led Exco in Anambra State as the only one known and recognized by the party both at the zonal and National level. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting held at the Zonal secretariat of the party at 16 Iyienu Street, Independence Layout, Enugu. Addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting, the National Vice chairman (SouthEast), Deacon Austin Umahi said the PDP remains one united family in Anambra despite attempts by people he described as fifth columnists to commercialize and polarize the party. According to him: "The PDP in Anambra remains one united family under the Leadership of Hon. Sir Ndubuisi Nwobu and the secretariat at No.1 Dr. Ezidiegwu Road, Udoka Housing Estate is the only Secretariat known to the party as well as the Zonal Working Committee. We call on one Mr. Chukwudi Umeaba and all his co travellers...

Rep. Adedeji Stanley Olajide representing Ibadan Southwest and Northwest Constituency of Oyo State, on Friday, pounced on and chased out journalists from a public hearing on COVID-19, held at the National Assembly. The Oyo lawmaker went berserk at the public hearing, organised by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on COVID-19 on the need to investigate medical research in the fight against COVID-19 and other diseases in Nigeria. The event was attended by the minister of health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, minister of state for health, Senator Olorunimbe Mamora, the director-general of NCDC, Dr. Chike Ihekweazu and other heads of agencies in the ministry of health. The fracas began when the event was ongoing. A member of the ad hoc committee had observed that the meeting room was crowded and sought the permission of the Chairman of the committee, Rep. Haruna Mshelia (APC-Borno) to cut the number of attendants. Consequently, Rep. Mshelia said that no more persons should be ...

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide had supported the idea of Using Jungle Justice to discipline Some Erring Igbo Elders, whose Adult delinquencies had instituted Untold hardship and insecurity Challenges against Igbo Nation. OYC wishes to State Categorically, that Nnia Nwodo as Former Minister of Information during the Military regime of Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998, Presented and Marketed the 1999 Constitution to Nigerians without proper protection of igbos interests and without Apologies to Nigerians, in 2019, He called the 1999 Constitution he helped the Military Junta to imposed on Nigerians as a trained lawyer, a Fraudulent Document that should be discarded and Usher in restructuring. Igbos had been victimised by Actions and decisions, erroneously took in the past on behalf of Igbo Nation,by few circle of Igbo Elders who placed their Pecuniary Interests above the Collective interests of igbos and never weighed the future consequences and negative ...

Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Kalu; President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Friday met privately in Abuja. 24/7 news gathered that Senator Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia, also met separately behind closed doors with Mr. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to Government of the Federation. Although the reasons for their meeting could not be immediately ascertained, Igbere TV however learned both meetings lasted a couple of hours from 1pm Friday.

The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) has presented items to 20 states in its ongoing distribution of palliatives since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic says Ms Gloria Dede, Head of the Bayelsa Office of the foundation. According to her efforts are on the way to ensure that items get to other states of the country in the bid to ameliorate the hardship Nigerians are facing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. States listed to have benefitted include Anambra, Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta States. Others are Edo, Ekiti, Kebbi, Taraba, Zamfara, Sokoto, Oyo, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Rivers and Akwa Ibom. Dede who stated this on Friday while presenting some items to the Bayelsa State Government disclosed that the recent exercise is the second phase of distribution, as the organisation had earlier made an outreach to some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the Federal Capital Terretory (FCT) in April this year. She explained that the ges...

Wife of the Benue State Governor, Mrs Eunice Ortom, her son and some of her staff have tested positive for COVID-19. Mrs Ortom who made this known in a statement she personally signed and issued late Friday night in Makurdi said she had gone on self-isolation with her son and all her affected staff. She encouraged people of the state to take preventive measures to be protected and be safe by observing all the primary protocols including wearing of face masks, constant washing of hands, maintaining of social distancing and staying indoors when not necessary to go out. Part of the statement read, “a few moments ago this (Friday) evening, I received my result from the tests earlier carried out on me and others by NCDC personnel on routine screening at House, Makurdi which returned that I and my son, and some staff are COVID-19 positive. “We have from this moment, gone into total isolation as required by the protocols and would immediately begin the management treatment as advis...

The apex bank, which has refused to disclose the exact foreign remittances it has received from 2016 to 2018, deliberately stocks the US dollars it receives on behalf of Nigerians to trade them off through crooked means. One of the major reasons why the Central Bank of Nigeria has prevented financial institutions in the country from paying United States dollars to persons receiving money from friends and family members based overseas has been uncovered. According to documents seen, the apex bank, which has refused to disclose the exact foreign remittances it has received from 2016 to 2018, deliberately stocks the US dollars it receives on behalf of Nigerians to trade them off through crooked means. The CBN, it was gathered, was warehousing the dollar component of remittances in foreign banks, thereby making it impossible for the naira to appreciate against the dollar in the foreign exchange market. Blowing the lid off this seeming goldmine for the CBN leadership, the Femi Fa...