Author: The Eagle Online

Felix Mgbada, Member, Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees in Ebonyi State, says there are no arrangements or written documents made to authenticate any zoning arrangement for governorship position in the state. He disclosed this in a press conference held on Friday in Umuoghara, Ezza North Local Government Area of the state. Mgbada said power can come from any zone. He said: “Ebonyi has never had any arrangement for zoning since the inception. “All we have been witnessing are political and everyone that has ruled Ebonyi as governor is by ‘luck’. “I am a PDP BOT member and no shifting…

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Nigerians have been urged to consider voting for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, in the forthcoming elections based on his personal capability to salvage the country. The Chairman, South-East Council of Traditional fulers, Igwe Lawrence Agubuzu, made the plea on Friday in Enugu. He spoke when Obi paid a consultative visit to the Traditional Rulers in Enugu State in the Eastern Nigeria House of Chiefs. Agubuzu said: “Obi is not an Igbo candidate, but has the preponderant home base support of people of the South East geopolitical zone to vie for the exalted office of the…

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The Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps has immortalised late Chief of Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Abdulrahman Kuliya, by naming a 350-seater capacity Training Shed at the corps Headquarters in Abuja after him. The project was inaugurated on Friday by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, on Friday. Yahaya was represented by the Chief of Special Service and Programmes, Major General Emeka Onumajuru. The late CMI died alongside former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, in the ill-fated military plane that crashed in Kaduna on May 21, 2021. The COAS said late Kuliya deserved the honour because…

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Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has approved the addition of eight days to the 2022/2023 schools academic calendar in the state. The Commissioner for Education, Lawan Wakilbe, confirmed this development on Friday in Maiduguri, the state capital. Wakilbe said the approval was to enable staff and eligible students exercise their civic rights. He said that government declared eight days holidays for the upcoming general elections in February to also enable the usage of schools as Collation Centres. NAN reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission had fixed the presidential and National Assembly elections for February 25, while governorship and…

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Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has described the appointment of Dr. Ijeoma Akunyili, daughter of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, as the Chief Medical Officer of the Jersey City Medical Center, an RWJ Barnabas Health facility, in the United States of America, as well-deserved and not surprising. Dabiri-Erewa spoke in a congratulatory statement issued by the spokesman of NiDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Friday. She said the appointment of Akunyile did not come to her as a surprise knowing the kind of training she received from her late mother, whom she described as a disciplinarian to the core.…

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