Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday described as devastating news of the death of Justice Christopher who represented Nigeria at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan. Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, in a statement said the federation was pained at the death of Christopher...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has distributed food and non food items to residents and Internally Displaced Persons in Dikwa Town and surrounding villages in Dikwa LGA of the state. The governor also urged the IDPs to continue to be resilient and pray for...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – UNICEF has donated essential medicines worth US$438,972 to the governments of Yobe and Borno States, as part of efforts to improve maternal, neonatal and child survival and health outcomes in conflict-affected communities in north-east Nigeria. UNICEF also said it would support the implementation of...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Dr. Giadom Ferdinand Dumbari as the Project Coordinator (PC) for Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project under the Federal Ministry of Environment. A statement by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Saghir El-Mohammed, on Wednesday, said the...
A popular white TikToker, Tiago Ishola, who has become popular for Yoruba comedy on social media has spoken about how he came to be very good with the language. In an interview with BBC News Yoruba, he said that whenever he goes out to buy something and people see...
Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill to amend the Electoral Act 2022. This comes after the bill failed to pass second reading at the Senate, weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari signed it into law. Buhari had written to the upper and lower legislative chambers seeking amendment to Section...
The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow registered and eligible prison inmates to vote during all general elections in the country. The Upper Chamber discussed this during plenary on Tuesday when it considered a motion on The prerogative of Prison Inmates to vote in...
The Benin Zonal Command of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), says it rescued 105 victims of human trafficking in various operations in 2021. Mr Nduka Nwannwenne, the Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, said this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Cross River State Chapter has called for collective efforts in ensuring that gender equality is achieved in the country despite challenges faced in the quest for their voices to be heard. The NAWOJ State Chairperson, Comrade Umo Basi-Edet...
A Deputy Inspector General and the head of the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Joseph Egbunike is dead. Egbunike collapsed inside his office in Abuja in the late hours of Tuesday, 8th of March. Until his death, Egbunike was in charge of the highest investigating arm of...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the unacceptable reaction of Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi to the Judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ordered him and his deputy, Mr. Eric Kelechi Igwe to vacate their offices on grounds of their defection...
Russia on Wednesday warned the West that it was working on a broad response to sanctions that would be swift and felt in the West’s most sensitive areas. Russia’s economy is facing the gravest crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union after the West imposed crippling sanctions...
American rapper and songwriter, Eminem on Tuesday emerged as one of the highest selling rapper of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) also announced 73.5 million new Gold & Platinum Program certifications for the 49-year-old “rap god.”, meaning Eminem is now the No. 1 awarded musician for...
U.S President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that the United States would no longer allow for the importation of Russian oil, the latest sanction to punish Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. Biden who announced the sanction from the White House said Russian oil would no longer be accepted...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The trial of Bar Ugoji Nwabueze over alleged impersonation as President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Cross River Chapter was on Tuesday stalled. This followed the inability of Nwabueze’s counsel, Prof. Jacob Dada to provide the authority he cited in the last sitting. The Inspector General of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Director United Nations Information Center (UNIC), Dr. Ronald D. Kayanja has said that with the renewed efforts of the federal government collaboration with UNIC in Nigeria, by the year 2030, three major dimensions of social, economic and environment comprising of poverty ratio, hunger...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki- The Ebonyi Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has rejected the judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, removing Governkr David Umahi and his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, from office over defection from the PDP to the APC. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that Governor Umahi...
Pro-democracy campaigner and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore sits with Chude Jideonwo, host of #WithChude and founder of Joy, Inc. to discuss what his activism has caused him, his experiences with loss, and his decision to keep at his fight for Nigeria despite all the circumstances around him. Sharing...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – Women and girls, especially in rural communities, continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis that exacerbates pre-existing inequalities, jeopardizes their food security and feeds instability and migration, warns the United Nations World Food Programme on International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day 2022 focuses...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – Ecobank Nigeria has entered into a partnership agreement with the Ogun State government to provide mortgage financing to interested civil servants who are allottees of the state’s housing scheme. Under the housing scheme, the Ogun State Government has developed an acquisition arrangement to build...