By Amos Aar THE Deputy Governor of Benue State, and consensus candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Benue Zone C, Engr Benson Abounu, has cried out over alleged Marginalisation and cheating against his candidature by the Tiv-speaking zones A and B who constitute the highest population of the state. The frontline guber gontender expressed this concern on Monday at Government House, Makurdi in an interview with newsmen when he was reacting to PDP’s zoning of 2023 governorship position which according to him was done on the basis of ethnicity. Reacting to the presentation of the Speaker, Hon. Titus…
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By Amos Aar SOME Primary School teachers in Benue State who were on a peaceful protest on Tuesday visited the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) headquarters in Makurdi to register their grievances. Mr Elijah Kpenwuan who led the protest informed the Special Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr Kenneth Achabo, that the move was to complain about the omission of their names when February and March salaries were paid. Responding, the Special Adviser, Barr Kenneth Achabo, who attributed the situation to the shortfall from the federation account said, his office was…
By Amos Aar DISAPPROVING reactions have greeted the emergence of the Speaker, Benue State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Titus Uba, as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) consensus candidate for the Tiv-speaking area of the state in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Findings by National Record indicate that some prominent personalities in the state, including members of the PDP and even those from Vandeikya Local Government where the Speaker hails from, are unhappy over the party stakeholders’ decision which they described as an imposition on the masses against their various choices and sensibilities. Many people who expressed grievances in interviews…
THE 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour will be taking place in Durban, South Africa, from 15-20 May, 2022 where over 4,000 delegates are to discuss good practices, identify gaps and the urgent measures needed to help children forced by their circumstances of birth and poverty to work in precarious conditions. The event will be hosted at the Durban International Convention Centre It is estimated that more than 160 million children are still in child labour around the world, a situation compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which is threatening to reverse years of progress. The over 4,000…
SOMETIMES the difference between a coup and a democratic process can be so narrow as to be interchangeable. The move to oust Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, had been in the offing for some time, but there were questions of methodology, and how the populace may react. One of Khan’s capital sins was to try to run a foreign policy independent of the US. He also had the guts not just to criticise the American occupation of Afghanistan but also to call for international support and funding for the new Taliban government that had forced America and Western powers to…
By Sesugh Solomon A native association of the Igbo extraction of the North-East in Nigeria, “Izu Umunna Cultural Association” a pan Igbo think tank and an affiliate of Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo, has urged the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for fairness and justice to zone its presidential slot to the South-East geopolitical zone. A press statement issued by the group in Jos, Plateau State on Wednesday, 13th April, 2022, jointly signed by its President, Dr Ugo Pat Ihekuna and Dr Elvis Chukwu, Secretary, insisted that an Igbo extraction must be made to contest 2023 presidency on the…
The “Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights” for 2022 has been awarded to the Liberian trade union, National Health Workers Union of Liberia, (NAHWUL) and its leader, George Poe Williams. They receive the award for their fight for basic trade union rights for a group of workers who have been particularly vulnerable during the severe pandemics that have hit Liberia in recent years. During the Ebola pandemic in Liberia, health workers had very poor working conditions. Ten per cent of health workers lost their lives. At the same time as the world has applauded the health workers’ fight…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Dr Monday Onyekachi Ubani, over the death of his father, Pa Egbedubi Nwokocha, at the age of 101 years. Dr Ubani, who was recently appointed by the President of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) as Public Trustee to administer Nigeria’s oldest trade union, the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU), has a timeline within which to conduct the union’s delegates’ conference, is the Chairperson of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL). Pa Nwokocha, who passed on January 3, 2022 in Lagos, will be buried at his hometown…
THE Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) may any moment from now go after Comrade Lawrence Amaechi by reporting him to the relevant security agencies for absconding with an official car attached to him when he served as President of the union, a position which two courts of record, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria and the Court of Appeal, have declared that he illegally occupied. National Record gathered from a reliable principal staff of the union that though NCSU’s General Secretary, Comrade Bomoi Mohammed Ibraheem, had in March rewritten a polite letter requesting Comrade Amaechi to ‘release’ the union’s Toyota…
THE International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has revealed that it will open a book of infamy to document every individual whose action or inaction encourages or allows the harassment of journalists and the media in Nigeria, IPI Nigeria, Musikilu Mojeed, stated this on Tuesday during a courtesy visit by the body to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja. According to a press statement issued yesterday by the IPI Nigeria’s Secretary, Ahmed I. Shekarau, Mr Mojeed said the move became necessary in view of the country’s worsening press freedom record under the current administration. “I [would]…