The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),Plateau Council, has urged the government and security agencies to safeguard lives and property in the state. The council made the call in a Communique issued at the end of its Congress meeting by its Secretary, Mr Peter Amine. It also called on the State Government to...
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FIFA is set to generate £3bn from the World Cup in Qatar, while thousands of migrant workers have lost their lives in the Middle Eastern state since it was awarded the blue riband event. New figures detailing the football governing body’s budget for 2022, included in its annual report,...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, says he is optimistic the All Progress Congress (APC) will clinch Saturday’s bye-election for Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency. Kalu said this on Thursday when he hosted some clergymen in the state to a breakfast meeting in Aba. The News...
Labour on Thursday night said no to the government’s plan to fully deregulate petrol pricing because it is no longer able to sustain the subsidy regime. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it stopped bearing the N120 billion monthly subsidy on the cost of petrol consumption by Nigerians....
Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Mohamed Tunis has pleaded for prompt payment of Community Levy by Member States to finance projects across the sub-region. Tunis made the call during the closing of the three-day seminar organised as part of activities of the first physical Extraordinary Session of the Parliament’s...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the number of COVID-19 recoveries from 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) stood at 149,882 as it announced 97 new cases. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. It also said that it managed 1,015...
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has again declared that he would not support the agitation for Yoruba Nation by a group of people, saying those calling for such are not representatives of the Yorubas. Akeredolu, who reacted to a statement credited to a group under the auspices of the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it is aming to boost local wheat production in the country and reduce importation by 60 percent. The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this on Thursday, while speaking at the launch of the 2020 wet season harvest aggregation and dry season...
The Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday secured the conviction and sentencing of one Jackson Kamalu before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court sitting in the Ikeja area Lagos. The convict was first arraigned sometime in September 2020 alongside his...
True Love as Service to Each Other Every human being desires to love and to be loved. This is no less on the part of the woman or on the part of the man, hence both men and women have equal need to be loved and to love. So,...
The University of Aberdeen has said it will return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria, many years after the British looted the sculptures. In a statement on Thursday, the university explained it has previously repatriated sacred items and ancestral remains to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. “An ongoing review of...
A Federal High sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced one Job Wilfred to three years imprisonment. Wilifred was sentenced on Thursday on one count bordering on illegal dealing in petroleum products – a charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was...
President Joe Biden warned North Korea Thursday that the United States will “respond accordingly” if it escalates its weapons testing, after Pyongyang fired two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea in its first substantive provocation of the new US administration. The nuclear-armed North has a long history of using...
The parents of Leah Sharibu, the teenage girl abducted by Boko Haram from Dapchi school in February 2018, have described as shameful, President Buhari’s inability to negotiate her release. The parents spoke amid reports that Leah had delivered a second child in captivity. In a statement issued on their...
“My life is in the hands of God and no Fulani militia has the power to take it without His permission” – Samuel Ortom, Governor of Benue State Assassinations by which it is meant the preplanned and deliberate murder usually of a high profile citizen are considered a weapon...
After reading via the media, the recent accusations by stakeholders, among them policy makers and media managers, that the Nigerian media allows its obsession for bad news and screaming headlines to obstruct the principal mandate of setting the right agenda toward building a united and virile nation, the content...
With the release of about N288B out of the N500B appropriated for COVID-19 intervention programmes under the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), at least 2.1 million jobs have been saved, including new ones created, while over 4000km of federal and rural roads are at least 30% completed since the commencement...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja– The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has explained that Nigeria would have ran into constitutional crisis if it had shifted those elections during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in year 2020. National Commissioner and the Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC) of the commission,...
The Lagos State Police Command said it have released one Kari O’Rourke, a United States citizen arrested and detained over the death of her host in Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and O’Rourke’s lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, confirmed the release of the foreigner in a statement on...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is confident that more electoral offenders will be prosecuted following the conviction and sentencing of a university lecturer, Peter Ogban. In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party commended the judiciary for its courage to stand on the...