Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, Thursday, wept profusely at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 election. TAN was the major group that spearheaded the re-election campaign of the President even before he formally announced his […]
The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Felix Obuah says public servants in the State need special commendation for their courage and perseverance. Prince Obuah made the observation in a message signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Jerry Needam to the Workers to mark this year’s Workers […]
NEDU MARK, Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor, Governor Seriake Dickson, has ordered the immediate cut of 20 percent from workers’ salaries starting from June, this year, on the state government’s Personal Income Tax Act, PITA scheme. The governor who was in the spirit of May Day Celebration for civil servants in the state also showered […]
It was near mayhem at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, today, as Nigerian workers aligned to the Joe Ajaero faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) were prevented from staging their traditional May Day rally planned for the venue, by the police. Following the split of the NLC into two factions, last month, observers had […]
Barely four days after he vowed to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, over the missing $20bn, the president-elect, Mohammadu Buhari has said that his government would not spare any security personnel found guilty of electoral offences in the last general elections. He said that the crimes of ballot snatching and the prevention of […]
Come this Saturday, Nigerian popular artistes will be converging in large number at the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria for the zonal rally at the church zonal Headquarters. The rally with the Theme ”A Heart of Gratitude” promises to be an unforgettable experience and would be loaded with programs including a vigil on Friday, May […]
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) holds the May edition of the Holy Ghost Service on Friday, May 1, 2015. The theme is “Fulfilling Destiny” and the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye will minister with other Anointed Ministers of God. There will also be a meeting between the General Overseer and the workers […]
Oil prices edged lower, Friday, easing off 2015 highs after Iraq said its crude oil exports hit a record in April, keeping Middle East production well above demand. The two crude global benchmarks rose between 20 and 25 percent in April, helped by a weaker dollar and bets that a supply glut would ease, […]
MOBOfree.com, the leading African social marketplace, has announced that it had experienced an increase of more than 44 per cent in the number of registered users of MOBOfree.com in Nigeria over the past 12 months, resulting in a 1042 per cent increase in the number of classifieds published on MOBOfree.com in Nigeria which makes more […]
The 2015 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA), “Industrialising through Trade”, has been launched during the Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Economic Development in Addis Ababa. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah, Minister of Trade and Industry, Ghana and Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, Minister and Advisor to the Prime Minister […]
International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises (INSME) Annual Meeting and Forum, which is taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 26 – 28 May, is set to advance local enterprise development. This is the first time that this event will be held on the African continent. Local Small and Medium Enterprises […]
It is certainly strange how the top football clubs can be so careful with their money in some ways, yet so extravagant in others. United, for example, might have been tempted, one assumed, to bring down their ticket prices for the FA Cup replay against Cambridge on Tuesday, in the same way that City routinely […]
Less than a week after Global Patriot Newspapers broke the news that former National Chairman of the now defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Dr. Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu, would succeed Senator Anyim Pius Anyim as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the South-East caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Thursday, formally met […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, Thursday said all members of the Peoples Democratic Party who defected to the All Progressives Congress because he lost the March 28 presidential election would return ‘with empty stomachs,’ saying the leaders of the APC ‘would first settle their existing members before thinking of settling defectors.’ He added that “food” may have […]
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the sacrifices of the Nigerian working class in the face of economic tough times in their everyday struggle to survive. In his May Day message to Nigerian workers, General Buhari said he was fully aware of the hardships of the Nigerian working class, which he said, was compounded by […]
With barely 24 hours to the globally –acclaimed May Day or Workers’ Day rallies, there may be an unpleasant showdown in Nigeria as the two major factions of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, appear poised to clash at the rally grounds. Last month, the national congress of the NLC which held in Abuja produced Ayuba […]
Tension is reportedly brewing in Kogi State following threat by the state’s chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to shut down the state if the government fails to rescind its decision to cut salaries of workers on Grade Level 7 and above. The state’s Vice-Chairman of NLC, Alhaji Suleiman Abdullahi who made the threat […]
NEDU MARK, Yenagoa Bayelsa State government, has said that the political tension in the country accompanying the 2015 general elections compelled many contractors handling various projects in the state to abandon construction sites. Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, disclosed this, Thursday at Igbogene, in Yenagoa, while fielding questions from newsmen during an inspection […]
The anti-climactic denouement to a trial that was marked by a series of drama and unconscionable adjournments became ominous, Wednesday April 29, 2015 when the trial judge failed to sentence the accused persons having found them guilty on some of the charges in the 81-count information preferred against them by the EFCC. Instead, he fixed […]
The in-coming government of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari cannot deliver on its promises to Nigerians unless it restructures the country. This is the position of Mr. Yinka Odumakin, spokesman for Afenifere, the apex pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, who also told Global Patriot Newspapers that Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC), are beginning to come to terms […]
All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Jonathan administration of plotting to hinder a smooth handover of power on May 29, following what it termed ‘Jonathan administration’s failure to cooperate with the incoming government, despite its public posturing in that regard.’ In a statement issued in Abuja, Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, […]
NEDU MARK, Yenagoa In line with its social responsibility approach to rural communities in the Niger Delta, the Commander, Joint Military Task Force (JTF), Code named; Operation PULO SHIELD, in Niger Delta, Major General Emmanuel Atewe has sunk and donated a bore hole amenity to President Goodluck Jonathan’s maternal home at Akipelai Community in Ogbia, […]
Chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bro Felix Obuah has described the allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC), that the state’s Governor-elect, Chief Nyesom Wike plans to defect to the APC as malicious, ‘baseless and a mere wishful thinking of the propagators of such falsehood.’ It would […]
Nearly two days after Indonesia’s execution by firing squad of 8 convicted drug traffickers, including four Nigerians, the Federal Government yesterday condemned the decision of the country to carry out the death sentences despite worldwide appeals. Indonesian authorities had, Tuesday executed eight people, including four Nigerians, convicted for drug offences. The execution of a […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it plans to immunize 240,000 children with the Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) in three local government areas of Sokoto State. Supplemental Immunization Activities Officer, WHO Nigeria Office, Dr Ana Chevez, who disclosed this in Abuja, Wednesday, said that the children would be immunised in Sokoto North, Sokoto South […]
