By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – A federal lawmaker, Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos Central Senatorial District has called on Nigerians to shun all attempts to cause disunity and remain unflinching in spite of challenges bedeviling the country. Senator Tinubu stated this on Thursday in a statement to commemorate Nigeria’s...
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Former Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, has called on Nigerians to embrace peace, inclusion, and unity as the nation celebrates its 61st independence anniversary. Turaki who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria stressed that given the nation’s diversity, Nigeria is stronger when all the ethnic groups work...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, says there is nothing bad in rotating the presidency amongst the six geo-political zones of the country. Oyedepo sad this on Thursday while speaking at the weekly ‘Political Dialogue’ in Ilorin. The political dialogue was organised...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has observed that the country has made tremendous progress in deepening democratic values since the inception of the Fourth Republic. Jonathan, in a paper he read at National Defence College Course 30 Inauguration Lecture in Abuja as the guest speaker, also said that although democracy...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has joined Lagos State as the third respondent in the legal battle between the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and Rivers. Rivers is the first respondent in the appeal in which the FIRS joined the Attorney-General of the Federation as the second respondent....
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, has arrested 191 alleged vandals and illegal Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) dealers within eight months. FCT NSCDC Spokesperson, Miss Comfort Okomanyi, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja, said the figure represented those arrested from January...
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai, eliminated 85 Boko Haram/Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in one month. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while giving an update on the military operations...
Some residents in Kaduna have expressed mixed reactions following the ban order by the State Government on the operation of private and commercial motorcycles. The State Government on Wednesday issued, amongst others, a three-month ban on the operation of private and commercial motorcycle as part of measures to assist...
Colombian singer, Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, popularly known as Shakira, has revealed that she was attacked by wild boars while out with her eight-year-old son, Milan. The 44-year-old made this known in a post via her Instagram story on Wednesday. According to her, she fought off two wild boars while...
Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to one year under house arrest over illegal campaign financing, a court in Paris ruled on Thursday. The court ruled that the 66-year-old could serve the sentence in the form of electronically monitored house arrest with an ankle bracelet. According to...
By SUFUYAN OJEIFO and LOUIS ACHI – According to Alan Stewart Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid fighter, it is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,” building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation...
As part of their plans to immortalize the late Edo mulit-billionaire businessman, Captain (Dr) Idahosa Wells Okunbo, two top-flight journalists, Comrade Tony Erha and Mr Sufuyan Ojeifo, have waxed and produced a four- track album in his memory. Capt. ‘Hosa, as he was fondly called by associates, passed on...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has condemned the killing of Chief Medical Director of St. Leo Hospital, Enugu, Prof. Chike Akunyili. Kalu, in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, urged security agencies to launch a robust investigation to bring the perpetrators to book. The...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA) has said there is no scientific evidence suggesting COVID-19 vaccination can cause infertility in men or women. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, told News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), on Thursday in Abuja that the COVID-19 vaccination among populations of reproductive...
A Former Nigerian High Commissioner to Malaysia, Alhaji Yerima Abdullahi, has said that Nigeria’s existence as one united country is a divine arrangement and not a mistake. Abdullahi, an elder statesman, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Gombe. ”The...
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has signed the bill prohibiting open grazing across the state, into law. He assented to the bill on Thursday at the Government House in Asaba, the state capital. This comes a week after members of the Delta State House of Assembly passed the Prohibiting...
A businessman, Hussaini Shehu, and his wife, Farida Idris, were docked at a Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, on Thursday. They are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, impersonation, criminal breach of trust and cheating in a N5.2 million-contract scam. Prosecuting ASP Fidelis Ogbobe told the court...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The chairman Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Press Corps, Mr. Segun Ojumu has called on INEC to ensure the inclusion of the persons with disabilities in the electoral process especially the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State. Mr. Ojumu made the call in Abuja during...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East State Governors have appealed to the World Bank Country Director , Mr. Shubham Chaudri, to expedite action in the implementation of intervention projects under the Multi Sectoral Crisis Recovery Projects (MCRP) in the North Eastern states. The Governors said, “the only...