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UMUAHIA—ABIA State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu said that he will not reduce the N18,000 minimum wage for civil servants in the state. Governor Ikpeazu also denied rumour of plans to reduce the state’s workforce, saying that despite the adverse economic situation, Abia has not entered the “relegation zone.” Ikpeazu According to the governor, though the federal allocation to the state in the last six months has been between N2.2 and N2.4 billion, which he said was “hardly sufficient for the overhead,” he has no intention to slash salary or sack workers. Ikpeazu tasked the state’s workforce to work hard and join hands with the government in the effort to raise the internally generated revenue [IGR], which he has set a target of N1.5 billion monthly. The governor who spoke with journalists in Umuahia, explained that it was only an improved IGR that will keep the state afloat and urged the civil servants to work hard to achieve the target. “For now, we are not cont...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State suffered a set back Tuesday with the defection of more than 5000 of it’s members in Obot Akara Local Government Area to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The event also witnessed the official commissioning of the Obot Akara APC chapter Secretariat office as well a reception in honour of Barr Austin Mbeh, who recently won his case at the Court of Appeal. The court nullified the April 11,2015 Ikot Ekpene / Obot Akara State Constituency election and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Return earlier issued Idongesit Ntepere of the PDP and conduct fresh polls within 90 days. Addressing the mammoth crowd at the event, Barr. Mbeh thanked his people for the show of love and support during the campaign,  through the election and litigation process.  He assured his constituents that not only will the APC win the rerun as ordered by the court but that ...

Stakeholders from Eket Senatorial district in Akwa Ibom State have urged Governor Udom Emmanuel to remain focused on his well-thought out plans of infrastructural development and industrialisation of the state. The forum who stated this   during a media parley at Eket decried the annulment of the state’s governorship election by the Court of Appeal, describing the development as a desperate move by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to conquer the state. They urged the Supreme Court not to succumb to the perceived pressure by the APC to conquer the oil-rich Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers states, in the cases pending before it. According to the forum “We are gathered here to express the position of this federal constituency on the vexed issue of the annulment of the Akwa Ibom State governorship election wherein our son, Governor Udom Emmanuel won. “It was a mandate that was freely given by the majority of Akwa Ibom people but for untenable reasons, have...

The Lagos State House of Assembly is set to pass the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law tomorrow. Committing the budget to the House Committee on Budget and Economic Planning during the presentation of the budget proposal to the House by Governor Akinwumi Ambode penultimate Thursday, speaker of the House, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, promised that the Budget would be passed into law on Thursday, 31st December, 2015. He said the budget, estimated at N662.588 billion, was the best so far in the state, adding that it would meet the expectations of the people.

Controversy is trailing the reason a police sergeant killed a set of twin brothers, their friend and himself in front of a hotel at Ikosi in Ketu area of Lagos State on Boxing Day. While some people said Sgt. Stephen James was ordering the trio of Taiwo and Kehinde Oyesunle and their friend, Jeje, to buy him a bottle of beer in Paulson Hotel, at Anibaba Street, others alleged that they were arguing over whose club would win a football match played by foreign clubs. A man who identified himself as Peter told LEADERSHIP at Anibaba Street, near Paulson Hotel that Taiwo, a naval personnel, won as his own team won the match and made jest of Sgt. James who was allegedly drunk. He said James was warning them as they laughed at him but to no avail. He was said to have threatened to kill them but later left the hotel bar and stood outside, waiting for them. Immediately he saw them approaching, he was said to have opened fire at the three of them in cold blood before poi...

In exercise of her prerogative of mercy, the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade, on Wednesday released 10 inmates from Ikoyi Prisons . She said the gesture was aimed at decongesting the prisons and ensuring that deserving inmates breathed a fresh air of freedom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Atilade had on June 18 released 16 inmates from the prisons. Atilade admonished the freed inmates to be of good behaviour and make positive impacts on the society. She said:“In congratulating the beneficiaries of today’s exercise, I must note that they are being given another opportunity to start afresh, moreso as it is coming on the eve of a new year. “I do sincerely hope and pray that those being granted amnesty today will be of good conduct and will do no such thing capable of bringing them back into prison.” According to her, steps have been taken by the judiciary to facilitate speedy trials and dispensation of justice to reduce dra...

Subscribe free to Daily Post Newsletter Email Address Embattled Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari for referring to him as “a terrorist, evil and a paedophile” in some of his radio messages. The Federal Government had charged Kanu, alongside two others, before a Federal High Court in Abuja on six counts of treason and other ancillary offences. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in a statement he made to the Department of State Service, DSS, on October 23 said he intended to write a private letter to Buhari to express his apology for his comments.