Briga News Nigeria A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday struck out a suit filed by the Labour Party seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct fresh election in the Rivers House of Assembly to fill the seats of the defected lawmakers. Justice James Omotosho struck out the suit after…
Briga News Nigeria Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “This is not a decision I came to lightly,” Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to social media on Monday. Her last day of work will be 7 June. Ms Gates…
Briga News Nigeria Frontline aspirant for the Burutu LGA chairmanship election in Delta state, Comrade Ozobo Austin has appealed to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to adopt him as the consensus candidate of the party. Ozobo, in a statement signed and forwarded to newsmen maintained that he is the most popular, sellable…
Briga News Nigeria Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has again called for a review of the country’s revenue derivation formula in line with the practice of fiscal federalism. He queried the existing practice where resource-endowed states in Nigeria, particularly in the Niger Delta, get a paltry 13 per cent as monthly allocation from…
Briga News Nigeria The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lampoons the All Progressives Congress (APC) over its witless press statement wherein it laboured without success to subvert the Constitution on the vacation of seats by former members of the Rivers State House of Assembly who lost their membership of that Legislative House upon defection from the…
By Peter Jonah Sergeant-at-arm of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, 5th Mobile Parliament Worldwide, Comr. Anderson Fruks has extend his hands of felicitations to Comr. Napoleon Kenerekedi, the APC Delta state youth leader and Comr. Marbo Adams Ogomugo, immediate past Chairman, IYC, Abuja Chapter on their well deserved appointments in the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP….
By Peter Jonah The Treasurer of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Iduwini Clan, Central Zone, Bayelsa State, Comr. Timiye-Ebimene Ebiyekon, has called on operators of Tunu Well 4 around the Letugbene axis, Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State to take quick actions in curtailing the oil spill from the wellhead. Ebiyekon, in a statement…
Briga News Nigeria The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR, performed the groundbreaking Ceremony of Dualization of Minna-Bida Road. The road is being constructed by the administration of Governor Umar Mohammed Bago of Niger State. Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was together with members of the APC national working…
Briga News Nigeria The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Emomotimi Dennis Guwor, has enjoined the federal government to make policies in the interest of the people by adopting healthy means of taxation without overburdening Nigerians. Speaking on Thursday in Asaba during an interview, Guwor called for friendly and honest policies…
Briga News Nigeria The Director General of National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General YD Ahmed has paid a sympathy visit to the Corps Members who were involved in a fatal road accident on their way to the Orientation Camps at the commencement of the 2024 Batch ‘A’ Stream Two Orientation Course. Corps Members Oladele Misturah…