Abuja Media Circle

Justice A.I Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Owerri, has affirmed the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. Former governorship aspirant, Barr.  Friday  Nwosu also dragged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to court over alleged forged tax certificates. However, the court ruled today that the plaintiff, (Nwosu) was unable to prove that the tax documents where forged and dismissed the matter. In a related development, an Abia State High Court in Osisioma granted a motion filed by Ikpeazu for extension of the order restraining the Chief Judge of Abia State, the President Abia State Customary Court of Appeal and any other judicial officer from swearing in Mr. Uche Ogah, as governor of the state. The order was extended to  18th July, 2016 .

Versatile Nigerian Producer / Singer, Prokassy debuts his self produced official single “Calm Down” under his new label, Eskimo Records. Eskimo records is a music label structured to give artistes chance to air their voice in a creative way in other to make a BIG impact in their immediate community and the world at large. Prokassy  came to the music scene with a hit song, "Showole" featuring Rayce. He however exploits a little bit of Afrobeat to create his own new rhythmic sound which encompasses this beautiful song “Calm Down” The Eskimo Records frontier also accompanies this audio with an outstanding Shalom Chikki directed visual interpretation of the hit single. The video was shot in Abuja, Nigeria. Without Further ado, Watch, Download and Enjoy “Calm Down” by Prokassy. AUDIO DOWNLOAD LINK: https://my.notjustok.com/track/download/id/107360 YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/n_jFBx7SPOw

    Ooni of Ife The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi , says the loss of culture, values and tradition is responsible for the numerous challenges facing Africa as a continent. Ogunwusi said this while delivering the 2015/2016 annual lecture of the School of Postgraduate Studies of the University of Lagos , on Thursday. The theme of the lecture is: “Redefining the Role of Traditional Institutions for National Development”. According to him, African culture and tradition is gradually giving way to westernization in several aspects. He said that this, to a large extent, had impacted negatively on the people’s way of life. He explained that most of the things borrowed from the western culture had confused the thinking and way of life of Africans. “There is nothing wrong borrowing from another. But the truth is that such things that are borrowed need to be properly aligned and harmonized in such a way that it will not affect our own way of life. Before ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against eleven state governments in the country over their failure to pay salaries to their workers. The organization in the petition requested the Prosecutor, ICC, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, to use her position to investigate allegations of collective punishment and crimes against humanity against tens of thousands of Nigerian workers as a result of non-payment of their salaries for several months by their state governments. The affected states are Bayelsa, Benue, Bauchi, Osun, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Ondo, and Plateau states. In the petition dated July 7, 2016 and signed by SERAP Executive Director, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organisation expressed concern that non-payment of workers’ salaries by several state governments in the country has made life impossible to live for the workers and families. SERAP therefore urged the ICC prosecu...

Honourable members of Ebonyi house of assembly have being presented with brand new 2016 Prado SUV each by Governor David Nweze Umahi. See more photos from the occasion below...