By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Alliance for Indigenous Rights (PAIR), has dismissed a newspaper report by Daily Trust that the Minister of State, FCT, Dr. Ramatu Tijani Aliyu, was heckled at the presentation of Certificates of Return to newly elected Area Council Chairmen on Friday in Abuja....
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A Professor of Industrial and Commercial Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) , Joe Abugu, has lashed out at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), over its stance on the conferment of professorial status on the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, by the...
The Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has the potential to be a good president. King Malla Sasime, Vice Chairman, Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council, expressed this view while receiving Osinbajo who paid a courtesy call on traditional rulers at the Bayelsa Traditional Rulers Council Secretariat on...
Some residents of Anambra have called on the incoming administration of Prof Charles Soludo, to be inaugurated on March 17, to declare a state of emergency on road Infrastructure in Awka Metropolis. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent who sampled opinion from some residents reports that they were...
Nigeria’s first female gold medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Chioma Ajunwa-Opara, has called on athletes to stop cutting corners, but rather face the reality of intense competition for world titles. Ajunwa-Opara gave this advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. She was...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria needs more rebels who will speak truth to power not minding whose ox is gored. The former president stated this on Saturday while unveiling the autobiography of the Babanla Adinni of Egbaland, Tayo Sowunmi, titled ‘Footprints Of A Rebel’ in Abeokuta, Ogun State...
Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has said the state will begin to earn 13 per cent derivation in line with its status as an oil producing state from March. Obiano disclosed this at a parley with journalists in Aguleri, Anambra East Local Government Area after a tour of the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos- Sen. Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, has expressed sadness and shock over the death of his close associate and trusted ally, Prof. Tunde Samuel, aged 73. Tinubu, in a tribute on Saturday in Lagos, described the deceased as a renowned political philosopher,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Tension is building up in Calabar, the Cross River State capital as armed security operatives on Saturday sealed off the Calabar Sport Club which is the venue of PDP flag off campaign rally in the state. The barricades by the police operatives have disrupted the...
The Borno State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed three deaths in Saturday’s fire at the Muna El-Badawy Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri. Its Director-General, Hajiya Yabawa Kolo, confirmed the death toll during an impact assessment visit to the scene. She said at least 3,000 shelters were destroyed...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki says internet fraudsters popularly referred to as ‘Yahoo Boys’ must be very brilliant to dupe people and their brilliance can be redirected to a better cause. The governor said this on Friday at a town hall meeting on Edo State Education Policy. According to...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says it significantly scaled down the number of Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) from 28,215 in 1987 to 13,027 in 2021, representing 54 per cent reduction. The Corps Marshal of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said this during the agency’s 34th anniversary award and dinner...
Alhaji Hashimu-Shehu Gazura, a Commissioner in the Zamfara Independent Electoral Commission (ZASIEC), is dead. He died in a ghastly accident on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Gazura was also a former member, Zamfara House of Assembly, who represented Gummi 2 Constituency. His death is contained...
Calls for collaboration in addressing COVID-19 effects By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Brussels, Belgium, welcomed the designation of Nigeria as one of the six countries in Africa designated as manufacturing bases for the COVID-19 vaccine, while also calling for collaboration to address the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Mr. Nathaniel Ikyur, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS), to Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has declared that his principal does not hate President Muhammad Buhari. According to Ikyur, Ortom’s statements on the state of the nation should not be misconstrued for demeaning the...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi K. Wabote has urged the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) to help the nation in weeding out bad eggs in the journalism profession. Speaking at a breakfast meeting with GOCOP members at Lagos Sheraton, Ikeja, Engr. Wabote...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has said it is willing to partner with investors in the power sector to improve power supply in the country. The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, made this known while receiving the Ambassador of Turkey to Nigeria, Mr Hidayet Bayratar,...
BY SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – A humanitarian group, known as The Victims Support Fund (VSF) on Friday launched the distribution of food items to victims of boko Haram insurgency in Yobe State. The Chairman of VSF, General Theophilus Y Danjuma (retired), who was represented by the Executive Director of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – After organizing one month intensive practical training on entrepreneurship, Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has presented N100m to 152 reformed youths who were prominent members of a violent political thuggery group code named ‘ECOMOG’ in Maiduguri. Governor Zulum made the presentation at the Ramat...
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) has said that the Federal Government would generate over N5 billion, through the planned Fisheries Coastal Terminal Concession project. It said this in a statement issued by Manji Yarling, Acting Head, Media and Publicity of ICRC. According to her, the project would also...