Speaking at a roundtable with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) in Victoria Island on Monday, Hamzat said efforts to use a prepaid meter were frustrated by the electricity distribution company.
The suspended Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has formally requested a total of 228 days of leave, citing the need for a medical checkup and pending research engagements abroad.
A coalition of women took to the streets of Port Harcourt on Monday, declaring support for President Bola Tinubu’s emergency rule in Rivers State and opposing suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
“It is annoying that I toiled so much and these people at the NFA [Nigeria Football Association, which was NFF’s former name] cannot figure out ways of sorting out the money they owe me,” Chukwu said.
“You cannot even move between one local government and another after 5 o’clock until 8 in the morning—and that is only after the Nigerian Army has scanned the roads manually.”
Experts say Ekweremadu’s failure to follow legal protocols on consent and medical clearance led to his UK jail sentence.
A U.S. court says the CIA holds no records on Tinubu, with the FBI and DEA having released relevant documents.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria’s poverty crisis stems from poor leadership, not a lack of resources.
Some of the inscriptions on the placards read, ‘Omu-Aran Says No to Band A’, ‘Bring Us Back to Band C’, ‘Revert Omu-Aran to Band C ’, and ‘Omu-Aran Youths Have Spoken Loudly’.
The World Bank has committed $16 billion in support of Nigeria’s development across health, education, and infrastructure sectors.
