Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

CHIEF (MRS) NKECHI MBA, PRESIDENT, NCWS NIGERIAN women have condemned assassination attempt on the embattled Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah, describing the act as ‘callous and a total violation of her right to live’. The National President, National Council of Women Societies, NCWS, Mrs. Nkechi Mba, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen in Abuja, adding that the threat on the minister’s life shows that some desperate persons want to tarnish her image for giving the aviation sector a facelift. Mba restated women’s plea to the federal government to consider the good works she has done in the sector by tampering justice with mercy, stating however that women will not take it likely if anything happens to the minister. “Women are not happy with all that is happening and we will not take it likely if anything happens to the minister. We have been pleading that justice be tampered with mercy yet they are threatening and attempting to kill her. “She has done well in the avi...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the restriction on human and vehicular movements in two local government areas in Anambra during Saturday’s supplementary governorship election. A statement from the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, in Awka on Friday named the local governments as Idemili North and Onitsha South. It also said the restriction would begin at midnight on Friday and end at 6 p.m. on Saturday. According to the statement, the restriction was to ensure a successful and peaceful conduct of the supplementary election. It warned travellers passing through the state to find alternative routes during the period. The statement also warned politicians and other individuals not to move about with security officials and appealed for total compliance with the directive. It warned that “anybody who flouts this order will be arrested and prosecuted. “These measures are geared toward a hitch-free conduct of elec...

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih, has described the defection of five governors of the party to the opposition All Progressives Congress as a sad development. He, however, urged party loyalists across the nation not to panic over the  governors’ decision. Anenih said this while responding to questions from journalists in Abuja, on Thursday. The BoT chairman said he took solace in the fact that the party leadership including President Goodluck Jonathan, former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, former National Chairmen, Senators Barnabas Gemade and Ahmadu Ali and himself “invested enough energy, commitment, maturity and sincerity in the collective effort at reconciliation.” He said, “Indeed, I had expected the governors to stay on in the party which  offered them a unique opportunity to serve their people. “Surprisingly, they decided to abandon their home and platform to take up tenancy in an oppositio...

ASUU president, Fagge A Lecturer at the University of Calabar, Dr Edidiong Ebitu, has described the new demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities as an act of sabotage of the education sector. Ebitu made the declaration on Friday in Uyo in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. The teacher, who is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing in the university, said he was in support of the Federal Government’s directive that lecturers should resume classes. “The various branches of ASUU had already voted to resume classes. The over four-months strike has done enough damage to the system. “The president had made reasonable concessions, so ASUU should resume for other things to fall in place,” he said. However, reacting to Ebitu’s views, the Secretary of the University of Uyo Branch of ASUU, Dr Aniekan Brown, debunked the claim that ASUU was making fresh demands. “ASUU is not making fresh demands, ASUU ...