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A five-man panel of the Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by former Minister of Finance Etubom Anthony Ani against Etubom Ekpo Okon over the traditional stool of the Obong of Calabar and the traditional ruler of the Efik kingdom. Channels Television news reports that the judgement delivered by Justice Amina Augie was dismissed on the grounds that the appeal lacked merit. Ani had approached a lower court challenging Etubom Okon Abasi and others in their capacity as members of Etubom’s Traditional council for allegedly distorting the screening process of the western Calabar when Abasi Otu was the chairman…

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has expressed disappointment and frustration over the negligence and attitude of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) management, and has called for quick investigation into the incident that occurred last Saturday at the Igueben Train Station. Obaseki also visited the 12 rescued kidnapped victims, who were abducted from the Igueben Train Station and assured the public that the state government would leave no stone unturned in securing the release of the two remaining hostages. The governor visited the rescued victims at the Police Cottage Hospital at GRA, Benin City, where they had been taken for tests…

It was tears and lamentations as task force set up by the Nigerian RailWays Corporations, NRC, began total demolition of Mile one second hand cloths market otherwise known as ” Okirika”, and other categories of make shifts put up by sellers. National Point learnt that as early as 6:30am, Tuesday, 10th January, 2023, bulldozers owned by the Nigerian RailWays Corporations, NRC, accompanied by some staff, task force and the police stormed the area and began massive demolition of stalls and other structures erected by the traders. Traders who left their homes with the high hope of displaying their wears for…

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi took his national campaign tour to Bayelsa State on Friday December 23 where he declared to Niger Delta people that Nigeria has been unfair to them. He then made a concrete promise that if elected president on February 25, 2023, he will use oil money to rebuild the neglected region. “Going round the entire Niger Delta and Bayelsa State in particular, I stand here to say that Nigeria has not been fair to the Niger Delta region” Obi’s made the declaration when he addressed Niger Delta critical stakeholders that comprised traditional…

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has inaugurated its Eleme Chapter, the 82nd chapter of the society nationwide, with the emergence of Mr Michael Osaro as its pioneer chairman. At the inauguration, which took place at the secretariat of the society at Ogale, Eleme, the president of the NSE, Tasiu Gidari-Wudil, said Eleme chapter is one of the four branches of the society that were given birth to by the Port Harcourt branch. He urged the leadership of the new branch to carry along all members of the branch and continue to promote the affairs of the engineering profession. In…

Rivers State Government has formally inaugurated the Family Court, 13 years after the Child Rights Act was domesticated in the state. Wife of the governor, Hon. Justice Suzette Wike, has been appointed the presiding judge of the Family Court in the state. Speaking at the inauguration, the governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, called on the judiciary to find a way of promptly disposing of cases in the court, even when prosecutors become stumbling blocks to accelerated hearings. Wike noted that quite often, prosecutors inexcusably withdrew from the prosecution of child rights abuse cases, thus denying justice to the children. He therefore…

Women from Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State under the umbrella of Mba Okase Eleme Initiative trooped out Saturday December 18, to mark the 2022 Niger Delta Women’s Day as they lamented the damage that climate change has done to their livelihood and environment. Convener of the group, Dr. Patience Osaroejiji, who addressed the women at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Alode, said climate change has distorted the traditional rainy and dry climate seasons in the area. “We no longer know when it is rainy season or dry season,” she said, adding that a lot of traditional food and cash…

Qatar University has announced they will convert the hotel room where Argentina captain Lionel Messi lodged in during the 2022 World Cup into a mini museum. The room, which was reportedly shared with Messi’s lifelong friend and former colleague Sergio Aguero towards the end of Argentina’s triumphant World Cup campaign, will no longer receive guests, according to Qatari news agency QNA. “The room of Argentina national team player Lionel Messi will remain unchanged and will remain available only for visitors and not for residence,” Hitmi al Hitmi, director of communications and public relations at Qatar University, has told Qatari newspaper…

The 2022 version of World Cup in footballing held in Qatar has ended, but surges and eddies in fields of play have left some debris like a flood after receding. Many football lovers made forecasts; some consulted their crystal balls, others depended on Ouija board, for direction to the winner of the coveted trophy. At the end of the day, Europe locked horns with Latin America in a two-hour pulsating and excruciating artistry of soccer. Thirty-two countries started the journey. Gradually, the number started to whittle down as the battle got hotter. There were flashes of upsets, thereby invalidating permutations…

The Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises-Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project, has so far trained 1,033 incubatees out of the 4,250 targeted in Edo State, in various agribusinesses since the initiative came on board in 2020. Jude Ekpu, Edo State coordinator of the project, disclosed this on Thursday at an engagement session with media stakeholders in Benin City. Ekpu stated that the project was conceived to address poverty, boost food security, and create jobs for youths and women in rural communities through agribusiness development on a sustainable basis. Ekpu who, was represented by Benedict Akhamie, communication…