Author: straightnewsng.com

Indigenes of Otomo community in Ika local government area of Akwa Ibom state were in the early hours of Monday thrown into mourning and confusion as a 46-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in his uncompleted building. Nobody could say why the deceased, Aniekan Peter Sunday, took his own life as at the time of filing this report. However, sources in the community revealed that the deceased being the only surviving son of the family was supposed to bury his father next Friday. The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ika local government, Musa Rilwanu had visited the scene of the suicide after the…

The Senate has summoned four leading Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM operators: MTN, Airtel, Globacom, and 9Mobile to appear before its Committee on Communications to explain, among others,  reasons for frequent unsolicited calls, product and programme promos to their customers. These, companies, according to Senate, also trick Nigerians to subscribe to riddles, bad jokes, indiscriminate religious contents and caller tunes, adding that the summon was part of moves to check intrusive and unsolicited adverts from them to their numerous customers. Those to also appear before the Senator Gilbert Nnaji, PDP, Enugu East led Senate Committee on Communications are the…

Margaret Oputa, mother of Charles Oputa popularly called Charley Boy, has turned 100 years old on Tuesday. The centenarian is the wife of the late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa who served in the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 1984 to 1989. In celebrating her, the activist took to his Facebook page to pour encomiums on his mother, who is already a great grandmother. He wrote: “Abegi Help Us Thank God. Many cheers to our rugged, peaceful and serene great grandmother. “In fact, you deserve to live in paradise and shown the finer things, but you rather be with us in this…

The Saturday’s All Progressives Congress, APC Ward Congress marred by violence and disruptions nationwide has given party men and indeed political watchers growing concern on how sanity and decorum are becoming deficits in the country’s troubling political climate. From one state to another, pockets of violence and bravado marked by fisticuffs, ballot boxes snatching, grand manipulation of results and change of venue subterfuge greeted the concluded congress hitherto organised as a prelude to other congresses. Yet, the outcome portended grave dangers to the nation’s crawling democracy in a desperate attempt by the party to hold onto power at all cost.…

A one-time Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has advocated the adoption of Chinese model of electing their leaders, based on their past performances at lower levels of government, for Nigeria. Obi opined this at the weekend during an international conference on the theme of Philosophy, Law and Politics, at the Claretian Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Maryland, Nekede, saying that “since leadership was the fundamental problem of Nigeria, all hands must be on deck in the efforts to devise better ways of electing the leaders of the country.” Speaking on Human Development Index, he argued that Nigeria and the World said that its improvement was directly proportional to the…

Tuesday, May 22, this year will feature march past by members of New Biafra on major roads in the country as part of the organsation’s 18-year re-declaration which took place in Aba, Abia state on May 22, 2000. The march past will take place in Abuja; Benin, Edo state; Port-Harcourt, Rivers state; Asaba, Delta state; Calabar, Cross River state; Yenagoa, Bayelsa state; Onitsha, Anambra state; Enugu, Enugu state; Aba, Abia state; Owerri, Imo state;Uyo, Akwa Ibom state and Abakaliki, Ebonyi state. In a press statement issued Monday and signed by Mazi Chris Mocha, the Biafra Director of Information for Chief…

The former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has identified cumulative leadership failures over the years as a factor responsible for the country’s near-collapse, harping on the urgent need and patriotic efforts by Nigerians to save the union. Though Obi said it was wrong to blame those in leadership now, because they inherited dysfunctional states from past leadership of the country, he failed to link inertia and meddlesomeness by the past and present leaders to take tough decisions when necessary in the national interest. For instance, the reluctance of All Progressives Party to implement restructuring, a swan song which…

Despite it being an activity that we all do, often times every day, pooping is not a subject that comes up often in polite conversations. More often than not, it is tucked away, or a source of embarrassment, the butt of a joke, and so on. However, pooping is no laughing matter. Serious difficulty pooping can point to serious medical issues that need to be addressed as quickly as possible. Of course, it could also be that a lack of fiber is causing your toilet trouble. Filling out your fiber will beef up your stool, which will help with bowel…

Nigeria recovered not less than N7.8 billion through the whistle-blowing policy introduced 17 months ago by President Muhammadu Buhari administration. President Buhari stated this Monday in Abuja while declaring open a week-long event organised by the Federal Government to celebrate the successes it has achieved through the Open Government Partnership, OGP, initiative. Buhari, who said that graft in previous administrations was responsible for Nigeria’s unimpressive security situation and state of economy, explained that his administration had put in place a two-pronged approach to deal with the issue of grand corruption by arresting the negative trend and creating a self-sustaining system…

The National Assembly has assured to pass the 2018 budget proposal next week after presenting its report for consideration in the two chambers this week. This was part of the fall-outs of the meeting Bukola Saraki, Senate President and Yakubu Dogara, House of Representatives Speaker had with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock on Monday. Speaking to State House correspondents after the closed-door meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Senate President said that the meeting was at the instance of Buhari to brief them on the outcome of his bilateral meeting with the American President, Donald Trump.…