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The Abia state council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has flayed the state House of Assembly for voting against Local government council autonomy in the on-going constitutional amendment. Speaking during the 40th anniversary celebration of NLC in Umuahia, Chairman of the occasion and elected serving Chairman of Isiala Ngwa North LGA Abia state, Ginger Onwusibe while faulting the Imo state assembly, said the Imo state lawmakers are insensitive to the yearnings of Nigerians. Onwusibe, who warned that not constitutionally providing for the local government in the constitution, would subject the councils to the manipulation by the executive arm of government despite being the third tier of government.  Chairman of the Abia State NLC, Uchnna Obigwe urged governments to make payment of workers salaries their topmost responsibility.  Obigwe urged workers to ensure that they register and obtain their Permanent Voter Card (PVC) and use them to re-elect the state go...

The Federal Government is trying to cover a “huge fraud in the presidency by declaring it spends N24 billion monthly (N774 million per day) to subsidise fuel in the country,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged.   The party described the figure as “fictitious and cleverly fabricated to retire the already exposed stealing of trillions of naira by the presidency cabal and All Progressives Congress (APC) interests in secret oil deals.” PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement, yesterday, said: “It is duplicitous for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to claim a sudden surge in fuel purchase expenses at the same time the nation faced the harshest fuel shortage across the country, with Nigerians paying exorbitantly for the product.” According to the PDP, “The APC-led presidency is drawing its deceptive proclivity and concealment of fraud too far. And to think that such is hatched in a sector that is under the direct supervis...

President Muhammadu Buhari appears to have finally bowed to the criticisms of his alleged uncaring response to crises across the country. After the massacre of dozens in Taraba, the president visited the state only yesterday and is expected to also reach Benue, Zamfara, Yobe and Rivers states where hundreds of citizens have been murdered in recent months. A statement from the presidency noted that Buhari, having studied a report by the armed forces and other security agencies, is embarking on the trip to assess the situation.  What the statement didn’t acknowledge, however, is the overwhelming pressure by enraged Nigerians who watched the president at the wedding in Kano State on Saturday of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s daughter and the son of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State. Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose described the visits as insincere, belated, and a ploy to boost the president’s chances of re-election ahead of next year’s polls. In a statement by his spok...

Kobe Bryant on Sunday won an Oscar during the 90th Annual Academy Awards for  Dear Basketball , the short film based on his retirement letter from the NBA. The retired Los Angeles Lakers superstar was nominated for best animated short alongside Glen Keane. In his acceptance speech, Bryant said of dreams coming true, "I don't know if it's possible — I mean, as basketball players, we're really supposed to shut up and dribble," which was a dig at Fox News personality Laura Ingraham's recent comment directed at NBA superstar LeBron James. Bryant became a household name for his 20 years of dominant play on the court, during which he won five NBA championships. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein fallout and #MeToo movement, discussions of Bryant's 2003 rape case resurfaced.

There's always energy in the bench press room at the NFL scouting combine when players grip the crossbar and begin pumping the 225 pounds of free weights as everybody nearby counts the repetitions. But never like this. Even Shaquem Griffin, the one-handed do-it-all defender from Central Florida and a late invitee to the combine, didn't expect to do what he did Saturday with his prosthetic left hand . His personal max was 11 reps, but he had a much more modest benchmark in mind here. "My goal was six," Griffin acknowledged. Griffin clipped his prosthetic hand onto the bar, then leaned back. This wasn't his brother spotting him — the one who he was sure used to surreptitiously help him — but this new spotter was hyping him up and the crowd joined in as did his fellow linebacker prospects. "Everybody in the stands was hyping me up. I got the guys I'm here with hyping me up. It felt amazing," Griffin...

The Super Bowl is over and the stadiums across the country that once held thousands of fans on any given Sunday will be mostly empty in the off-season, but Tom Brady is still at work. The quarterback who will undeniably go down in NFL history as one of the greatest of all time is already thinking about his next act. Alongside Michael Strahan (another football great who has made the transition into pop cultural icon) and Gotham Chopra — the producer, director and former war correspondent — Brady is launching a new sports media startup. Called   The Religion of Sports, the new startup, which is seeking around $3 million in outside capital, is neither   The Players’ Tribune,   Derek Jeter’s media platform for athletes to tell their own stories,   nor   TraceMe, Russell Wilson’s   access-focused app   for athletes and celebrities. Instead, Brady, Strahan and Chopra, alongside chief executive Ameeth Sankaran, a former investor with a family office ou...

According to a new report from   Bloomberg, Apple is switching things up for this year’s major updates. Instead of meeting a tight deadline and ticking all the boxes on the checklist, development teams will be able to push back some features if they’re not polished enough. Axios and Bloomberg previously   reported   that Apple was focusing on stability with iOS 12. You can still expect iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 this Fall (and probably new versions of watchOS and tvOS), but the WWDC keynote might be a bit shorter than in previous years. Developers can now work on new features over two years. It should help when it comes to quality issues. iOS 11 hasn’t been perfect so far. Customers faced some weird bugs, such as autocorrect bugs, messages arriving out of order and the Calculator app not calculating properly. So let’s look at some of the rumored features for iOS 12 and 13, macOS 10.14 and 10.15. First, Apple is going to fix some low-hanging fruits with nice-to-hav...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Tuesday, released its 2018 list of priority pathogens that have the potential to cause a public health emergency and which have no, or insufficient, countermeasures. To on the list are Lassa fever and Ebola virus disease. Experts consider that given their potential to cause a public health emergency and the absence of efficacious drugs and/or vaccines, there is an urgent need for accelerated research and development for: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF); Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease; Lassa fever; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); Nipah and henipaviral diseases; Rift Valley fever (RVF); Zika; and Disease X. Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.To help control outbreaks, the WHO has called on the medical community to unite in greater Research and D...

The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory, with snake charmers. The senator also seized the opportunity to present JAMB with snake repellent chemicals. Sani said the visit was to enable stakeholders get to the bottom of the issues surrounding the reported case of missing N36 million from the JAMB office in Makurdi, Benue State. One Philomena Chieshe, a sales clerk in the JAMB office, Makurdi, told JAMB registrar and his team that she could not account for the N36 million she made in previous years before the abolition of scratch cards. “In the course of interrogation, Philomena denied the allegations that she stole the money, but confessed that her housemaid connived with another JAMB staff to spiritually (through a snake) steal the money from the vault in the account office,” the report said. Sani said his visit to JAMB was...

It was pandemonium yesterday as suspected herdsmen invaded the secretariat of Akure South Local Council of Ondo State.The action of the invaders, numbering 30 and armed with cutlasses, knives, cudgels, charms and other dangerous weapons, resulted in the council being deserted as early as 8:30am. Workers and prospective couples who had booked ceremonies at the registry were nowhere to be found during a visit to the scene.  It was gathered that one of the workers, identified as Mr. Simeon Johnson, had a confrontation with a herdsman grazing on the council’s vegetable farm sited on a large expanse of land at the back of the secretariat.He noted that the chasing away of the indifferent eight-year-old which led to his tripping that irked an onlooking older herdsman and the suspected who drew out his sword and engaged the council worker who was reportedly in possession of a cutlass.  Both men were said to be seriously injured from the confrontation, resulting in reinforcement b...