North Korea fired a short-range missile from northern Chagang Province towards the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said on Tuesday. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said that it had not been initially clear whether the missile was ballistic or how far it had flown....
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said there has been no objection on registration of persons in the four days of displaying voters’ register in the state. “Since the commencement of the display for claims and objections last Friday, there has been no objection,’’ INEC’s spokesman in the...
The Ebonyi South Youth Congress(ESYC), has faulted the alleged zoning of the 2023 governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to Abakaliki bloc of Ebonyi. The group was reacting to an interview by PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Chief Fred Udeogu, where he stated that PDP had zoned the...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that 865 illegal migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast and returned to Libya in the past week. “In the period of 19-25 September, 865 migrants were rescued/intercepted at sea and returned to Libya,” the IOM said. So far in...
US President Joe Biden received a Covid-19 vaccine booster on Monday and told Americans still resisting the shots that they are damaging the country. Biden rolled up his left sleeve in the White House and got a third Pfizer dose in line with the recently approved health guidance, which...
The Akwa-ibom State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the kidnap of Mr Samuel Ben, councillor representing Ward 6 Central in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. Police Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, confirmed the incident, said the victim was kidnapped at his fuel station premises on Saturday,...
A few hours after the official website of the upcoming Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) digital currency, enaira.com, went live, it has recorded over one million hits. This comes one week to the planned launch of the initiative. The development could pass as a reflection of the level of...
With Iran’s nuclear programme at a “watershed moment”, the country must be stopped from acquiring a nuclear weapon, Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, has warned. Bennett said this on Monday in his inaugural speech to the UN General Assembly. Iran’s “great goal” is to dominate the region “under a...
By EFFIONG IBU, Calabar – Ahead of the October 16,2021 State Congress of the party,the leadership of the party has uncovered sinister plots by some members to constitute parallel structure and Executive Committee at all levels of the party. A statement issued by the State Publicity Secretary, Bassey Ita,...
Nigeria is Africa’s largest economy. She will need to spend at least a princely $3 trillion over 30 years to close its nightmarish infrastructure deficit. This is not mere tattle-tale but a researched fact from Moody’s Investors Service, released last November. This circumspect and very objective projection would probably...
The World Bank has said that apart from smart investments, reforms in tertiary education systems were very instrumental to rebuilding COVID-hit economies and the transformations needed by societies. The bank said this in a statement issued in Washington after the release of a new report it presented to the...
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has confirmed one death while 16 passengers were rescued when an Ikorodu bound boat capsized shortly after it departed CMS Ferry Terminal at 4.35 p.m. The NIWA, Lagos Area Manager, Mrs Sarat Braimah, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen...
Agrichainx Innovative Technologies Limited, an agricultural blockchain firm spread across Africa, has unveiled Nollywood star Tonto Dikeh as its brand ambassador. At an unveiling and MoU signing ceremony held in Abuja on Monday, the management of the company said that the actress would remain the face of its brand...
More than1.8 million eligible people have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, six months since Nigeria began the vaccination of its citizens, an official has said. The Executive-Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, stated this on Monday, in Abuja, at the national briefing...
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has reiterated that he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in order to join hands to move the country forward. He spoke on Monday in Abuja, when he visited Sen. Orji Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate. Fani-Kayode visited Kalu,...
US singer R Kelly has been found guilty of exploiting his superstar status to run a scheme to sexually abuse women and children over two decades. Eleven accusers, nine women and two men, took the stand over the searing six-week trial to describe sexual humiliation and violence at his...
President of the Athletics Federation Nigeria (AFN) Tonobok Okowa, has said that his priority was to push athletics forward, so as to enhance the development of the Sport in the country. Okowa told Journalists on Monday, at the end of the federation’s first board meeting held at the package...
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has said that it was waiting for the verdict of the Supreme Court before taking any decision on the vexed issue of Valued Added Tax (VAT). Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, also the Chairman of the forum, stated this while featuring on a programme...
Plateau State Internal Revenue Service (PSIRS), Mr Arlat Dasogot, Chairman, has said that the service generated N17 billion from January to September 2021, as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Dasogot made the disclosure at the state’s revenue council whistle blowing sub-committee stakeholder engagement on Monday, in Jos. The chairman said...
Giandomenico Massari, Chairman, caretaker committee of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN), on Monday, confirm that Nigeria had won the bid to host the 2022 Track Africa cycling championship in Abuja. Massari told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview that the global body, Union Cycliste Internationale...