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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...