The Emir of Kastina, Dr Abdulmuminin Usman, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has got the experience needed to effectively steer Nigeria as president. The traditional ruler expressed this view while receiving the vice president who was on a courtesy call to his palace on Saturday in Kastina. Osinbajo was...
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Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has condemned the killing and beheading of Mr Okechukwu Okoye, a member of the state House of Assembly and Director of his campaign organisation, Mr Cyril Chiegboka. The heads without (trunks) of Okoye and Chiegboka were discovered around Chisco park junction in Amichi, Nnewi...
ENGAGEMENTS BY Chidi Amuta – In an election season, the briefcases of political salesmen are full of assorted marketing pitches. Not even the most outrageous and unexpected ideas are off limits. Conflicting notions and ideas tumble and clash for headlines in a crowded and confused market place. The public is desperate...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says its primary elections to nominate candidates for the 2023 general elections will commence as officially scheduled on Sunday, May 22. The party, in a statement by its National Organising Secretary, Mr Umar Bature, on Saturday night in Abuja...
Gunmen who abducted a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okey Okoye, have beheaded him. After beheading him, his head was reportedly displayed at a motor park in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of the state. The incident, which happened on Saturday, created panic in the...
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called for unity and oneness in the party as it prepares for the 2023 general elections. Tambuwal gave the advice on Saturday in Abakaliki while addressing party faithful, delegates...
Mrs Mary Afan, the President, Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) says Nigeria may not end hunger by 2025, if it does not invest massively in boosting agricultural production. Afan made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja on the sidelines...
A Professor of Clinical Neurology and Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Ikenna Onwuekwe, has said that people with existing headaches are often more prone to having headaches when having sexual intercourse. The health expert urged people who experience headaches during sex not to...
Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, rescue services said. The accident happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Teachers Registration Council (TRCN) says it has rescheduled its teachers Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) in Sokoto and Zamfara states over recent security concerns. TRCN’s Acting Director of Certification and Licensing, Dr Jacenta Ogboso, who disclosed this in Abuja while supervising the examination at...
Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he is more experienced than Osinbajo, Tinubu and other aspirants vying to clinch the party’s presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections. Amaechi stated this in an interview with newsmen shortly after an interactive session with...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received 129 Nigerians stranded at Agadez, Niger Republic on Saturday in Kano NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, gave the figure when he received the returnees. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the returnees arrived in Kano in three...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has revealed that the total number of dead bodies recovered from the building which collapsed in the Onike area of Lagos on Saturday has risen to four. The NEMA Zonal Coordinator Southwest, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, who confirmed the development...
Youths across the country on the aegis of Rescue Nigeria Mission on Saturday, held rallies in 23 states of the federation in support of Governor Yahaya Bello’s 2023 presidential ambition. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that it was a simultaneous gathering of massive crowds of youths in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a two-day visit to the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Presidential aircraft carrying the president and members of his entourage landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi...
The All Progressives Congress ( APC) presidential aspirant, Sen. Bola Tinubu, says evil and politics will not divide Nigeria. He made this known while soliciting support from APC delegates In Jigawa, ahead of the party’s presidential primaries. Tinubu, also referred to as one of the national leaders of the...
The remains of maverick politician and astute businessman, late Chief Francis Arthur Nzeribe was on Saturday, laid to rest at his country home of Oguta, in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo. Born Nov. 2, 1938, late Nzeribe, known as a de-tribalised Nigerian Senator, died on May 5, 2022...
Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne was named the Premier League’s Player of the season on Saturday, with his team-mate Phil Foden taking the Young Player prize for a second successive year. De Bruyne has notched a career-best 15 league goals and 13 assists to secure the fans’ award for the second time after...
Former US President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for obstructing a major tax evasion investigation led since 2019 by New York state authorities, a spokesperson announced Friday. Trump was ordered April 25 by New York state’s Supreme Court to pay $10,000 a day for as long as...