President Muhammadu Buhari has urged African leaders to fight tirelessly to get rid of corruption, lamenting that the continent has remained at the far end of global development index because of its menace. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement on Saturday, said Buhari spoke in his...
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The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies have said. “As we speak today, 650,000 kids are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. If not treated, half of them will...
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara on Saturday said the state would deliver overwhelming votes for Bola Ahmed Tinubu to become the next President in Nigeria in 2023. AbdulRasaq said this on Saturday while unveiling the Independent Presidential Campaign office of the state chapter for North Central Agenda for Asiwaju...
Some youths in llorin on Saturday embarked on a rally supporting the Peter Obi/Ahmed Datti presidential ambition, after an initial hiccup with security operatives. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the group, made up mainly of youths, trooped out enmass with branded T-shirts and posters of the...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has assured Nigerians that rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery would soon be completed and that the plant would refine 60,000 barrels of crude by early 2023. Sylva gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen in New York at the...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – The Edo State Government has debunked some reports alleging the presence of members of the terrorist group, Islamic State in West African Province (ISWAP), in any part of the state. The state Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, debunked the report in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to embrace farming to enhance the country’s food security. Buhari made the appeal in a message to the annual Olojo festival in Ile-Ife, Osun. Represented by Minister of Interior, Rauf ArAregbèsola, the president said farming remained the bedrock of Nigeria’s economy and necessary...
Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo has said that the proposed dredging of the Orashi river in the state would be hugely beneficial to the economy of the South-East geo-political zone. Uzodimma said this when he led officials of the Nigerian Navy in Imo on a tour of the Orashi...
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said that Nigeria has demonstrated the workability of application of returned looted assets for sustainable development. Malami disclosed this in his remarks at a High-Level side event on ”Food Security Response: Combating Illicit Financial Flows and Securing...
Enugu State will witness “disruptive’’, but positive governance from 2023 if the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Frank Nweke, is elected into office. Nweke, former Minister of Information, gave the assurance on Saturday in Enugu at the end of the party’s ward-level consultative meetings...
Delegates from 166 member countries of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) are billed to participate at its 2022 conference scheduled to hold in Lagos between Nov. 14 and Nov. 16. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known on Saturday in Lagos. National tourism and...
President Muhammadu Buhari at bilateral talks with Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheal Martin, said with the renewed efforts of the Nigerian military, insecurity in Nigeria would soon be a thing of the past. The President’s media aide, Mr Femi Adesina, in a statement on Saturday, quoted the Nigerian leader...
…Moves 11 ranks up in the world’s top 100 airlines By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa, has been named the winner of four awards at the SKYTRAX 2022 World Airline Awards, at a ceremony held in London on 23 September 2022. Ethiopian...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has addressed multinational groups in New York, United States of America, towards increasing focus on the education of girls in Nigeria and around the world. The Governor traveled to the US as part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s delegation...
The Spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has given reasons for the exclusion of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, from the 422-man list of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council. According to him, their absence was...
The release of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council list came with a surprise as a Peoples Democratic Party Senator, Chimaroke Nnamani, was included as a member of the council meant to help the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, achieve victory at the polls. Nnamani, who currently represents...
A lawyer and human rights campaigner, Mr Lucky Aghedo, has expressed worry over the alleged detention without trial, of some Nigerian migrants in Italy. Aghedo expressed the concern in a statement in Lagos on Saturday. He said that some Nigerian and other African migrants had been in custody in...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has announced scholarships for 100 members of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ (NUJ) for the study of International Institute of Journalists’ (IIJ) certificate course in collaboration with the Department of Mass Communication, University of Maiduguri....