By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Rosicrucian Order, Amorch Nigeria has called for collective efforts from Nigerians home and abroad to tackle the country’s socio-economic challenges. The Organisation warned against sitting on the fence, calling for emulation of the virtues/ qualities of Nigerian’s founding fathers, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has urged the National Assembly to launch an investigation into the regulatory activities of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), accusing it of succumbing to the control of an overtly politically partisan Minister of Information to cow broadcasting stations in Nigeria...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the world mark 2023 international day of zero tolerance for female gender mutilation , United Nations Education Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency (UNFPA) have disclosed that 4.3 millions girls are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the murder of a number Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Kaolak, Senegal, when the buses conveying them came under gun attack in Burkina Faso. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehe...
Umunugwu community in Enugu-South local government area of Enugu state, has apologised to Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and the Enugu South Local Government Area Chairman, Mr Chimezie Nkwuo, over its protest on Jan. 17. They appealed to Ugwuanyi and Nkwuo to forgive them and continue the road work in the...
Inadequate publicity, Naira re-design and fuel scarcity, have combined to take the shine off the ongoing 44th Kaduna International Trade Fair. Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the venue of the fair, report that the popular annual Trade Fair, known for its hosting of national...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on the Federal Government to probe a report that the presidential spokesperson for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Dino Melaye and others ‘smuggled out’ N50 billion new notes from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). MURIC’s...
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that Nigeria is not consuming 60 million litres of fuel. Sowore, who spoke during a pre-recorded interview on Channels Television’s Roadmap 2023, took a swipe at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), wondering where the...
Mr Femi Gbajabiamila gives a speech during a plenary at the House of Representatives chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila says the lawmakers may reconvene if the hardship occasioned by the naira swap continues. While the lawmakers are on...
Hajiya Naja’atu Muhammad is not naïve, she did not err, she knew she was telling lies when, at the end of last month (January, 2023) she went on television, to libelously link Vice Presidential candidate of the APC, Senator Kashim Shettima with sponsorship of the Boko Haram terrorist group....
By JOY ADARA, Abuja — The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the Indian Government on total eradication of fake Nigerian passports into India. The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, said this in a statement issued by the Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Following successful implementation of the first land degradation neutrality project in Nassarawa and Plateau States, Green Sahara Farms and its International Partners have designed a project to develop 200 thousand hectares for full value development . Green Sahara Farms was inspired by the encroaching...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Reverend of Christian Evangelical Fellowship of Nigeria (CEFN), Sokoto Missionary Zone, Adaji Olobo Micheal has admonished Christians to stop complaining about hardship and have confidence in God that owns everything. Reverend Micheal noted that, people should cultivate the habit of thanksgiving at all times....
Rep. Tolulope Akande-Sadipe (APC-Oyo) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure that the redesigned naira notes were available to cash-trapped Nigerians. She made this known in a statement by Mr Olamilekan Olusada, the Media Aide to the lawmaker in Abuja on Sunday. According to her, the...
Three labourers were killed in Aluu community in Rivers on Saturday as the two-storey building on which they were working crumbled. Mr Ngene James, Head, Disaster Management Rescue Team of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Rivers confirmed the incident in a statement issued by the...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over their “failure to cut the unlawful National Assembly budget of N228.1bn, including the N30.17bn severance payments and...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – As the scarcity of Naira currency crisis hit harder, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to review its new notes apportioned ratio policy and also to collaborate with law enforcement agencies in monitoring...
Project Pink Blue (PPB), a non-governmental organisation, has appealed to the Federal Government to do everything to gazette the National Cancer Act in order to put the document into operation. The Chief Executive Officer of the NGO, Mr Runcie Chidebe, made the call on Saturday in Abuja during a...