Alphonsus Nweze The leadership and members of Anambra State Keke/Motorcycle Drivers’ Stakeholders in the 21 Local Government Areas of the state have vowed to massively cast their votes for all the candidates of All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) in the February 18, State House of Assembly election in the state. They said their decision was sequel to an existing cordial relationship between the Keke/Motorcycle Drivers’ Stakeholders and Governor Chukwuma Soludo of the State. The group arrived at the resolution after their Stakeholders’ meeting Monday held at Holiday Resort, Onitsha. The…
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Rights Group want Stoppage of Gratuities, Severance Allowances to Ex-Presidents, Governors
Alphonsus Nweze A Human right and pro- democracy group, the Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) , has called for immediate stoppage of all payment of pensions, gratuities and severance allowances to all the former Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and their Vices, ex-Governors and their Deputies. Delta and Edo State branches of HURIDE made this call in a press conference they held in Asaba, the state capital recently.Addressing newsmen, the South South Zone head of HURIDE, Comrade Anthony Asakitikpi, called on the Federal Government,…
Read MoreCourt cautions Zamfara House of Assembly against impeachment of deputy governor
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, warned the Zamfara House of Assembly against plan to impeach the state’s Deputy Governor, Mahdi Gusau,Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the warning after counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Gusau, Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, prayed the court to make an ordering restraining the lawmakers from carrying out their plan.Although Justice Ekwo did not specifically made the order, he held that since parties in the suit had subjected themselves to the court jurisdiction, no party should take any action until the pendency of the…
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