The administration of Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwoolu is set to take another step in actualizing its vision for a Greater Lagos by replacing all streetlights in the State with smart LED lighting. The Streetlight Retrofit Project was unanimously approved by the Lagos State Executive Council in furtherance of the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the administration.  Making Lagos State a 21st Century ...

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says it is with a glad heart that he welcomes everyone to the New Year, 2021. In a statement made available to NewsProbe today, Atiku said the out-gone year was quite dramatic and it was only by the grace of the Almighty God that we survived to witness the succeeding year. He ...

Ohanaeze electoral committee 2020 has released guidelines for elections into the national, state and local government branches of the apex Igbo body. A timetable by the committee Chairman, Gary Enwo-Igariwey, also indicated that the national election would hold in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday, January 10, 2021. The 50-man electoral body, approved at an emergency meeting of Imeobi Ohanaeze ...

No fewer than seven hunters were blown apart on Tuesday by landmine about 30 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The landmine, which scattered the vehicles of local hunters searching for suspected Boko Haram members, who had rustled cows from communities in Jere Local Government Area of the state, also got 19 other hunters injured. Both Senator Kashim ...

By Joe Anatune If colourful politician and wordsmith, Dr. K. O Mbadiwe were alive today, he would have dubbed the Soludo Promoters Forum inauguration coming up in Isuofia, January 1, 2021 as “Operation Earthquake.” However, Casmir Igbokwe, the Akulu, Isuofia-born ace journalist and media administrator, and his crack team, are purposefully shy of such flamboyance. Igbokwe and his Local Organising ...

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to shun ethnic, tribal and religious sentiments, and focus on competence and credibility, when electing leaders into public offices, saying that the country has continued to suffer under the burden of poor leadership. Speaking to journalists at Awka on Wednesday, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has, again, directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to release foreign exchange from the country’s reserves for the importation of food items. He said seven states are already producing rice for the citizens’ consumption. President Buhari had, while hosting All Progressives Congress  governors to Eid-el-Kabir lunch at his country home in Daura, Katsina State in August, ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka A young lad crossing the road at Uli Ihiala local government area of Anambra state yesterday met his untimely death as unidentified driver knocked him down due to uncontrolled speed. The First Information Report on the fatal crash indicated that the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Anambra state Mr. Andrew Ayodele Kumapayi has ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka Ex-Aviation Minister of the first and second republic, Chief Mbazuluike Amaechi, former Women Affairs Minister Iyom Josephine Anenih and a host of other Nigerians at home and in the diaspora have unanimously endorsed the global movement for Igbo presidency in 2023. They concurred at the world press conference held at Chief Mbazuluike’s country home Ukpor, Nnewi-South local ...

Gunmen have abducted the Catholic Auxiliary Archbishop of Owerri, Moses Chikwe. The incident occurred about 8 pm Sunday, December 27, along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, the Imo State capital. The cleric was said  to have been kidnapped alongside his driver in his official car. In a statement, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri Diocese, Most Rev. Anthony Obinna, said the cleric ...