By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – The Mayor of Housing, My-ACE China, who has emerged patron of the apex youth assembly in Rivers State, has revealed what he calls “secrets of success and the place of profit-making and co-ownership of your employer’s business.” The real estate success strategist, who...
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By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has stressed that the era of demarketing the state by political actors should be left in the past, urging political actors to provide positive evaluation of his administration by offering superior options in policies and programmes that...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos- The Jos End Bad Governance Protest 2024 coalition has officially suspended its protest against the ongoing hardships and rising cost of living in Nigeria to facilitate dialogue with the relevant authorities, as proposed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his speech on Sunday. Speaking...
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has faulted the nationwide address by President Bola Tinubu, saying it failed to address the brutal crackdown of #EndBadGovernance protesters by security agencies. Angry Nigerians had taken to major cities across the country to lament the high cost of living, hardship, hunger, and...
The Nigerian female basketball team, D’Tigress, made history at the Paris Olympics 2024 by qualifying for the last 8, claiming a 79-70 victory over Canada. That feat made them the first ever African team (men or women) to play in the quarter-final of an Olympic game. Nigeria,...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Multiple consignments of illicit drugs concealed in tins of Cerelac baby food and cloths going to the United States and United Kingdom have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, and...
Nigeria’s Favour Ofili has qualified for the women’s 200metres semi-final at the Paris 2024 Olympics Ofili stormed to 22.24s which was her season’s best to win heat 6 of the event She booked her place in the semis ahead of Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and Gambia’s Gina...
By BAYO DAVIDS, Abuja – Former Director of Strategy and Communication to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Jackson Ude, has picked holes in President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday nationwide broadcast to the nation on the ongoing protest over poor governance and increasing hardship. The protest which commenced on Thursday,...
Heavily armed security personnel, on Sunday, provided security for hundreds of Osun protesters, who converged under the Olaiya Bridge in Osogbo to conduct open church service. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent monitoring the protest in the state reports that the service commenced at 12:01p.m with praise...
The Police Command in Imo has said that gunmen on Saturday night shot and killed eight community leaders in Umucheke, Onuimo Local Government Area. The Commissioner, Mr Aboki Danjuma, confirmed the incident on Sunday when he led some heads of other security agencies to the scene of the...
I set my alarm clock for this morning to ensure that I did not miss President Bola Tinubu’s impatiently awaited address to the nation on the current unrest across the nation. His outline of government’s remedial action since inception, aimed at warding off just such an outbreak, will...
The Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota in Lagos State, was empty of #Endbadgovernance protesters, following President Bola Tinubu’s Sunday morning broadcast, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN Correspondent who visited the park on Sunday observed that 80 per cent of the security personnel, particularly, the Police,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated D’Tigress for qualifying for the quarter-final of the women’s basketball at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The National senior women’s basketball team became the first ever African team (Male or Female) to make qualify for the quarterfinals at the Olympics...
A former Presidential Spokesperson, Dr Doyin Okupe, has said President Bola Tinubu has not disappointed Nigerians in his address to the nation on the nationwide protests on Sunday. Okupe, a former Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, made this remark in an interview with the...
President Bola Tinubu has said the N200 billion Consumer Credit Corporation established by his administration would make life easier for millions of households. The President said this in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. He said the aim of the scheme was to help...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sent an Urgent Appeal to Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, urging her to “apply the Commonwealth Charter to hold the Nigerian authorities to account over reports of attacks on journalists covering the #EndHunger protests and peaceful protests in...
President Bola Tinubu has urged youths to key into the student loan scheme introduced by his administration. The President made the appeal in a national broadcast on Sunday on the ongoing nationwide protest. He said his administration had shown commitment to the youth by setting up the student...
The organisers of #EndBadGovernance protests in Osun have said they would meet to decide the next line of action, after President Bola Tinubu appealed to protesters to suspended their protest and come for dialogue. Mr Ajala Adetunji, the Osun Coordinator of Coalition of Concern Nigeria Citizens, the group spearheading...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Kano State government has relaxed the curfew it imposed on the state following a violent protest against bad governance. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Malam Baba Dantiye, who announced this on Sunday in a broadcast in Kano, said the curfew has...