By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on his 60th birthday, May 15. The President, in a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Sunday in Abuja joined family members,...
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Colleagues of Nollywood actor, Murphy Afolabi, have expressed shock over the news of his death. Afolabi reportedly died of injuries sustained from a fall in his bathroom on Sunday morning. The Osun-born thespian recently celebrated his 49th birthday which was the last post on his Instagram page. His colleagues...
This writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels, I see it as relevant. The first part in particular. However, do we forget the lessons in the second part? The world is changed by your example not by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has emphasised the need for more investments in science and technology across universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Governor Zulum noted that science-tech has huge opportunities to create millions of jobs for Nigerian youths. He made the call...
One of the support Groups of the President-Elect, Tinubu Hope of Nigeria Vanguard, has commended the zoning arrangement for the National Assembly positions by the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Sen....
The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday commended the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba for ordering the arrest of Seun Kuti for attacking a police officer on duty. In a video that has gone viral, the “Afrobeat’’ musician wearing a red shirt atop a white pair of trousers...
Fire gutted five rows of shops at Agbeni Market, Ibadan on Sunday. General Manager of Oyo State Fire Service, Mr Yemi Akinyinka told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the fire has been put out, however. He said a security man at an adjoining bank placed a distress...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged the World Bank President, Mr David Malpass, to use his “good offices to suspend any disbursement of the $800m loan to the Federal Government and to request the incoming administration to provide satisfactory explanations for the...
The Federal Government says it spends N1 million annually to cater for each of the inmates at the correctional facilities in the country. Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to the statement,...
No fewer than 80 officers and men of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have gone on trial for indulging in collection of illegal fees for the issuance of new passports and renewal of old ones. The Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO), Comptroller of Immigration, Mr Tony Akuneme, who disclosed...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has praised the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, for efforts in the security of lives and property. Obasanjo spoke on Friday in Lagos in a keynote address at National Daily Newspaper Awards for Year 2022. He said the I-G deserved the award. The News Agency...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A mass burial was held yesterday Saturday, for thirty eight (38) people including women and children killed by Fulani herdsmen in Takalafia and Gwanja rural communities of Karu Local Government Council of Nasarawa State The Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled in favor of the Incorporated Trustees of Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) in a case against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The court’s decision, based on suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1622/2020, comes after the...
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Flowery words are oftentimes appropriate but then, they are generally not the fulcrum main messages. Whichever way, the message must not be lost on the altar of flowery languages. Without mincing words, tourism has become the world’s phenomenal finance garnering centre that every serious government must look for in...
Nigeria’s foremost monthly publication, The Top10 Magazine, has released the list of the 10 most outstanding drivers of Buhari’s legacy projects and programmes to mark the end of the eight years administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. In the latest edition titled “Top 10 Legacy Drivers of the Buhari Era...
The politics of democratic transition is hardly ever a beauty pageant. Oftentimes, the dazzling brilliance of campaign media displays conceal an underlying ugliness in the substance of what is on offer. It is all an ancient marketing gimmick in which the public is sold the new messiah as the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba has ordered the arrest of Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, who was captured on video assaulting a police officer in uniform. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in...
Parallex Bank Ltd. has been awarded the Most Innovative Bank of the Year 2022 by Champion Newspapers and Regional Bank of the Year 2022 by National Daily Newspaper. The Managing Director of Parallex Bank, Dr Olufemi Bakre, said in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. He said the awards...
The police command in Ogun says it has arrested a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Adebola Sodiq, for allegedly raping a 20-year-old girl. (name withheld). SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Spokesman in the state, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday. Oyeyemi explained that the...