The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has renewed its call for stronger legal protection for whistleblowers, saying the case involving former Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) official, Yisa Usman, highlights the urgent need to strengthen safeguards for public officers who expose wrongdoing. The organisation made...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja
Plateau State Government has confirmed 441 suspected cases of cholera and 14 deaths across four local government areas since the outbreak of the disease began in June, saying it has intensified emergency response measures to contain further spread. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nicholas Ba’amlong, disclosed this on Monday...
It was a Sunday morning, and we were returning from one of the communities designated for resettlement when Governor Babagana Umara Zulum halted his convoy to buy groundnuts from an elderly woman by the roadside at a village market. I was in the convoy of the Governor, as usual,...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, has honoured outstanding teachers, principals, and education administrators for their exceptional commitment, dedication, and exemplary service, reaffirming his administration’s unwavering commitment to rewarding excellence and promoting quality education across the state. The recognition ceremony, organised by the Borno State Ministry of Education, Science,...
Fresh attacks by suspected bandits have thrown several communities in Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State into panic, leaving at least five people dead, several others injured, and hundreds of residents displaced. The renewed wave of violence has also seen the abduction of the village head of Garin-Magaji,...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, on Tuesday, paid a courtesy visit to the palace of His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, as his first point of call on arrival in Osun State for a five-day readiness assessment ahead of...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday received members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) on a courtesy visit at the State House in Abuja. The delegation was led by the Archbishop of Kaduna and President of the CBCN, Most Rev. Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso,
Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has said that the disturbing revelations by Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno, a senior senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have exposed the dangerous consequences of the Tinubu administration’s fiscal mismanagement and...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike has promised to deliver Inner Southern Expressway (Goodluck Jonathan Way) awarded in December 2014, and abandoned for 12 years in December. Wike gave the promise in Abuja on Tuesday, after inspecting the project, along with the ongoing construction of...
African Democratic Congress (ADC) has welcomed the Court of Appeal’s decision overturning a Federal High Court judgment that sought to deregister the party and other political parties, describing the verdict as a significant victory for constitutional democracy and the rule of law. In a statement issued on Tuesday by...
Peter Obi’s @PeterObi latest political posture raises a question that should concern every sincere believer in the long-standing quest for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction: did he negotiate four years for Ndigbo, or did he negotiate it for himself? That question has become necessary following recent reports of...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has strongly condemned the recent barbaric and cowardly attack on innocent citizens in Naridon Village in Kamaru Ward, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attack on innocent citizens in the early hours of Monday led to the killing of about 30 residents, including...
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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Rt. Hon. Obongemem Ekperikpe Ekpo, on Saturday commended the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) for demonstrating that Local Content Policy could be a force for transforming lives and creating socio-economic value through community-focused interventions. Speaking at the commissioning of a state-of-the-art...
France have officially ushered in a new era by appointing Zinedine Zidane as the new head coach of the national team, ending Didier Deschamps’ successful 14 year reign in charge of Les Bleus. The French football legend, who captained his country to the 1998 FIFA World Cup title and...
Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, has declared that Nigeria’s education reforms can only succeed through stronger collaboration between the Federal and State Governments and a deliberate shift to data-driven decision-making, describing education as the nation’s most powerful tool for economic growth, national security and sustainable development. Speaking...
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) have formalised a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of sustainable digital infrastructure across Nigeria through the integration of renewable energy solutions and telecommunications infrastructure. The partnership was sealed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at...
No fewer than 3 persons have been confirmed dead after a two-storey building reportedly sank into the ground in the Ajuwon area of Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The tragic incident occurred on Monday afternoon after a heavy downpour accompanied by a thunderstorm. Emergency responders said 12...
Court of Appeal in Abuja has nullified a Federal High Court judgment that ordered the deregistration of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties. The appellate court held that the June 15 judgment was invalid and could not stand. In a unanimous decision by a three-member...
Online publisher and presidential candidate of the African Alliance Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore has jettisoned his plan to invite the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Oluwatosin Adeola Ajayi, as his witness in his ongoing trial for alleged criminal defamation of President Bola Tinubu on social...