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With 10 days to go, Big Brother Naija has evicted another housemate from the ongoing reality TV show. Ebuka Obi-Uchendu announced the eviction of Cindy on Friday in the House. Cindy who was the Head of House on September 9, 2019 spent 89 days and nine weeks in the house. The evicted housemate joined the show four weeks after it kicked off alongside Joe, Enkay, Elozonam and Venita. This is the 10th eviction and 11th live eviction show on the Big Brother Naija Pepper Dem edition which kicked off on June 30, 2019. The reality show continues with the remaining…

By Akanimo Sampson Apparently worried by the fact that one billion people could be driven away from their homes due to the worsening impacts of climate change, a citizen journalist has called on citizens of the world to change their mindsets and hold their governments to account. Shobha Shukla who is of the Citizen News Service says political decisions are overriding the interests and safety of the majority of the people for the benefit of a select few. “We need to have well-informed and knowledgeable citizens who can unite and #RiseUp to change mindsets and hold governments to account.’’ According…

By Akanimo Sampson Coordinator of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS), Santiago Fernández-de-Córdoba, has said that sustainability standards can support trade and spur economic growth, while promoting environmental protection and inclusive social development. While Fernández-de-Córdoba is however of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), UNFSS is an inter-agency platform that provides information and analysis on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) and facilitates discussions about them at the intergovernmental level. It co-hosted the convention from September 16-18 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with the Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology and the Federation…

A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Thursday, summoned Prof Charles Dokubo, Head of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to personally appear before it over allegations of diversion of amnesty slots. Trial judge, Justice Awogboro Abimbola, also ordered that Dokubo appears before her on October 4, with Mr Isaac Ityohuma, Director of Finance and Accounts in the PAP Office. Also subpoenaed is Mr Aroloye Brown, Head of Re-integatration in the Presidential Amnesty Office. Some 75 ex-militants who accepted the Presidential Amnesty in 2010 had dragged the Coordinator of the scheme, Dokubo to court over alleged diverting their slots and accruable…

By Akanimo Sampson This is certainly not the best season for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a supposed interventionist agency that is currently immersed in some unwholesome contract deals. The commission is on the spot in the Green Chamber of Nigeria’s bicameral Legislature, the House of Representatives. Following the inability of its top officials to answer several questions posed to them by a probe panel of the House, the federal legislators have invited all the former managing directors of the troubled commission, some of whom are the money bags of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic…

Akwa Ibom State has outlawed the operation of commercial motorcyclists within Eket metropolis following reports of rape cases and other heinous crimes being perpetrated by hoodlums disguised as commercial motorcyclists. The state governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel who announced the ban in his remarks at the 4th anniversary celebration of his wife’s Pet project “Family Empowerment and Youth Reorientation Programme, FEYReP, held Thursday in Uyo, decried the alarming rate of rape in the state and country at large in recent times. Emmanuel who condemned a situation where hoodlums now disguise as commercial motorcyclists to rob, murder unsuspecting members of the public,…

The Federal Government has reiterated the need to sustain peace and ensure peaceful co-existence in the Niger Delta region through dialogue and engagements of critical stakeholders, stressing that only dialogue and not arms will sustain the region and the country beyond oil. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang, stated this at the 14th Niger Delta Dialogue facilitated by AA Peace Works and the European Union with the theme, “Niger Delta’s Security Pathway: Where to? Where From?” held in Yenagoa, yesterday. Speaking on “Dialogue and not Arms Will Sustain Nigeria and Niger Delta Beyond…

Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade has assured that the ongoing construction of a spaghetti flyover and other flyover bridges at Odukpani Junction in the state capital, Calabar, will soon be completed. Ayade gave the assurance when he visited the construction site where major civil, mechanical and structural works are moving in rapid pace. Speaking to newsmen, the governor reinstated his commitment to ensure the spaghetti flyover, the first of its kind in this part of the world, is delivered soon. According to him, “The Spaghetti Flyover looks like something impossible because of the three floors of bridges crossing…

Nigeria lost 22 million barrels of crude oil worth N1.3 trillion to thieves in the Niger Delta Region in 2019, House of Representatives stated. The House also noted that the country losses about N5 trillion yearly from oil theft, saying it was an amount the Federal Government needed to finance the budget. Moving the motion entitled “Oil Theft in Nigeria,” Chukwuma Umeoji, the sponsor said, “The House notes that Nigeria losses about N5 trillion yearly from oil theft, an amount which the government desperately needs to finance the budget. “The oil theft is not only an economic loss but also…

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris, Thursday, appealed to organised Labour to consider the poor economic situation while negotiating for consequential adjustment. Ngige also said the Federal Government was determined to conclude negotiations on Consequential Adjustment to avoid having the problem of backlogs. Senator Ngige, who stated this when he received in audience the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, that paid him a congratulatory visit, noted that a worker deserved payment commensurate to his labour. The Minister, flanked by the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Williams Alor, and departmental heads,…