Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has renamed the state’s International Passenger and Cargo Airport after late Chinua Achebe, a novelist, to immortalise him for making an indelible mark on the history of human civilisation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Achebe a native of Ogidi in...
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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osogbo Local Government in Osun, Mr Saheed Onibonokuta, has said the party is determined to return to government in 2026. Onibonokuta in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Osogbo, said no...
Google is celebrating Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Day with a special doodle on its homepage. The doodle commemorates Nigeria’s Independence Day on Sunday, marking the country’s official emergence as a sovereign nation on this day in 1960. The doodle features Nigeria’s national flag waving against a bright blue sky to...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has pardoned and ordered the immediate release of 20 inmates that had served substantial part of their prison term in the state. The governor also appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), to...
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday served as the Special Guest of Honour at the change of Guards of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The event was part of the 63rd Independence Anniversary with the theme “Nigeria @63, Renewed Hope for Unity and Prosperity”. Tinubu led other members of...
Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Halilu Shaba, on Sunday said that Nigeria’s space industry could be valued at $1billon. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Shaba explained that the agency had developed the critical mass required...
The Kogi chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has accused the State Government of frustrating its efforts to campaign for votes, across the state, ahead of the Nov.11 governorship election. The party said this in a statement in Lokoja by Mr Isaiah Ijele, the Director General, New...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called on security agencies, agro rangers and the state government to intensify efforts in preventing Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks on farmers in the state . The council made the call...
Amnesty programme: The issues in appointing retired military officer as Chief Executive By LAW MEFOR
Amnesty programme: The issues in appointing retired military officer as Chief Executive By LAW MEFOR
Grave errors of judgment often occur by default, and so is the appointment of retired military officers to the role of Administrator/ Chief Executive of the Federal Government Amnesty Programme. There is a reason products of the military institution have registered underwhelming performance in sustainable transformational, socioeconomic development...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saidu Umar has rejected the ruling of the Tribunal that upheld the election of the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Governor, Ahmed Aliyu. Reacting to the Tribunal verdict, the PDP candidate,...
Imo Governor, Hope Uzodimma, recently made a skills and engagement promise to Imo youths. While on a campaign tour of the state, the Governor promised to assist no fewer than 4,000 interested indigenes of the state to relocate to Europe and Canada before the end of December this...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has taken a decisive step by formally petitioning the Nigeria Police Force against Max Air, citing grave concerns over the endangerment of lives due to reported safety violations. This move comes in the...
This text was published three years ago when Nigeria marked its 60th year of independence. Nothing has changed except for the age, now at 63, as the conditions remain the same. The text is therefore being reprinted today with only one change: @60 has been replaced by @63....
By JOY ADARA, Abuja — Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the 36 state governors in the country over “their failure to account for the spending of the N72 billion palliative collected from the Federal Government, including details of the beneficiaries...
Mr Peter Obi, 2023 presidential candidate, Labour Party has urged Nigerians not to despair after 63 years of their nationhood, but to remain hopeful that a better Nigeria is still possible. Obi, the former governor of Anambra made this known in his goodwill message to celebrate the 63rd...
The presidential candidate, African Democratic Congress in the 2023 general elections, Mr Dumebi Kachikwu has urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently end corruption and poverty among others affecting the country.k Kachukwu made this known in a goodwill message to commemorate the 63th Independence anniversary in Lagos on Sunday....
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Coalition for the Survival of Nigeria (CSN) has felicitated Nigerians on the occasion of the country’s 63rd independence anniversary even as it urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to avert the proposed indefinite nationwide strike by the Organised Labour over irreconcilable differences on how...
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has said that the state government has reached an agreement with the Federal Government to jointly rehabilitate the federal roads in the state. Governor Otti said this on Saturday at the Government House, Umuahia, during a media parley organised by the state government...