The Nigeria deep-water arm of global energy giant, Shell, has donated multimillion naira laboratory equipment and software packages to the Offshore Technology Institute of the University of Port Harcourt as part of the company’s Nigerian content human capital development programme delivered in collaboration with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Another batch of 10 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state, have regained their freedom, bringing the total of those released to 110. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State,...
Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, a former Governor of Borno and an All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairmanship aspirant, has said the party needs a “rugged“ national chairman to manage its affairs ahead of the 2023 general elections. He said this while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja on...
Nigeria’s senior national women basketball team, D’Tigress, on Sunday emerged champions of the 2021 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket Championship by defeating Mali 70-59 in Yaounde. D’Tigress’s victory in the Cameroonian capital city makes it the third consecutive one for them, having won the championship the 2017 and 2019 editions. The...
By TENEBE ANTHONIA, Lagos – UPDC Plc present its 2020 financial year to capital market stakeholders on the Facts Behind the Figures platform of Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Friday, 24 September 2021. The virtual event was hosted by the Divisional Head, Listings Business, NGX, Mr. Olumide Bolumole, and featured...
BY ANKELI EMMMANUEL, Sokoto – Hundreds of armed bandits have attacked a joint military base camp in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, killing yet to be ascertained number of personnel. The bandits were also said to have attacked Katsira village same day shooting sporadically leading to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have uncovered a hotel in Abuja where drugs are allegedly sold and young ladies camped for commercial sex. The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, said four persons;...
As Nigeria prepares to celebrate its 61st independence anniversary on Friday, October 1, Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has raised an alarm over alleged plans to rig the 2023 general elections. Governor Wike made the allegation on Sunday during an interdenominational church service in commemoration of the nation’s...
President Muhammadu Buhari would on Tuesday commission the Police Barracks, Special Protection Unit (SPU) base 6 at Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is expected to represent his principal to inaugurate the project built by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). NDDC...
Mr Basil Ejidike, Anambra State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described the claims of defection of 20,000 APC members to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as laughable. Ejidike punctured the defection claims, saying it is simply the cry of a drowning man in an ocean....
Dr Ejike Oji, Chairman, Technical Management Committee, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria (AAFP) has said that contraceptives are vital in engendering safe and planned births. Dr. Oji said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja, on the...
The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Sunday emerged the winners of the 2021 Financial Institutions Football Tournament. The game is organised annually by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in collaboration with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF). SEC defeated the CBN team 5 – 4 on penalties, after...
Mrs Bianca Ojukwu said in Awka on Sunday said that she shunned Saturday’s flag-off of APGA governorship campaign to protest “post-mortem disrespect’’ to her deceased husband. She laid the blame of the “post-mortem disrespect’’ to Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu on the doorstep of APGA’s leadership. Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and Dr...
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has extended the deadline for submission of already completed nomination forms for state congresses from the earlier announced date of Sept. 23 to Oct. 1. The party in a statement issued by its PDP National Publicity, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja...
The Emir of Argungu, HRH Sumaila Mera on Sunday conferred the traditional title of Kakaki Kebbi (Cultural Ambassador of Kebbi) on the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The turbaning which took place at the forecourt of the Palace of the Emir in Argungu town, Kebbi State...
After seven years of hiatus, Gulder Ultimate Search will make its much-awaited return to screens with the unveiling of contestants for the 2021 season on Sunday evening, September 26, 2021, and fans are in high spirits as they anticipate the reveal. The contestants reveal for GUS 12 – ‘The...
Hollywood actor, Michael Kenneth Williams died after ingesting fentanyl-laced heroin and cocaine, an autopsy revealed. Recall that the actor died Monday afternoon at the age of 54. The star was discovered dead in his Brooklyn penthouse residence, the New York Police confirmed. However, a statement released by the New...
By YUSHAU SHUAIB – The title of this article was the exact question posed by a senior security official at an informal breakfast in August. It was at a time when speculations were rife that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode would defect to the All-Progressives Congress (APC) from the People’s Democratic...
Nigerian singer, Oritsefemi Majemite Ekele, popularly known by his first name Oritse Femi, has been hospitalized after surviving a ghastly motor accident. The singer made this known in a post via his Instagram story on Sunday. According to him, he was on his way after a show when the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Biodiversity expert from Nigeria, Mrs Edel-Quinn Agbaegbu, is lined up to present a speech today as a stakeholder invitee and also lead Every Woman Hope Centre (EWHC), an NGO she founded in Nigeria, to host a Side Event at the four day “2021 Africa...