The Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has assured Nigerians of a greater and prosperous nation if elected as the country’s next president in February 2023. He gave the assurance during the party’s presidential campaign held at the Lekan Salami Sports Complex in Ibadan on Wednesday. The...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will embark on an official trip to Niamey, the Republic of Niger to attend the African Union Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification. This was contained in a statement issued by The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu on Wednesday in Abuja,...
The Rivers State All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Governorship Candidate, Prince Ugo Beke on Sunday said that the principle of Federal Character had not helped Nigeria to get to the dream of its founding fathers. Beke, a merchant banker and financial consultant, who spoke to newsmen in Lagos, was...
Nigeria has launched a campaign, “Clean Nigeria: use the Toilet”, to end open defecation by year 2025 and has marked three years of implementing the campaign. Nigeria’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. George Edokpa, disclosed this at an event in New York to mark the 2022...
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing has said that the government of the United Kingdom is supporting Nigeria to ensure credible elections in 2023. Laing, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja., said the UK would monitor...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – An Abuja-based civic-tech non-profit organisation, PROMAD, says the practice of making the government annual budget without quality needs assessment to harness citizens’ voices is responsible for the high poverty rate in the country. This was made known in a statement in Abuja on Friday,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that the cumulative case of Lassa fever in the country since the beginning of the year is 975, with 177 deaths from 26 states, with a case fatality ratio (CFR) of 18.2 per cent. The NCDC said, via...
Portugal striker, Cristiano Ronaldo is suffering a stomach bug and will be left out of the team’s World Cup warm-up friendly against Nigeria on Thursday, according to his coach Fernando Santos. Ronaldo gave an explosive interview to Piers Morgan’s show on TalkTV this week in which he criticised Manchester...
The Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has said it is not aware of any threat targeted at its nationals living in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory in Abuja The Ghanaian ministry in a statement issued on Wednesday, also disowned a security update advising against non-essential trips to...
Rep. Toby Okechukwu, the Deputy minority leader of the House of Representatives, said that the roads infrastructure in Nigeria would be hard to fix, if the bills on funding were not assented to by the President. Okechukwu said this when Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN),...
Officially launches, Micro and Small Tax Office, Epe, Lagos … By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has announced the opening of 25 new Tax Offices across the country. These new Tax Offices, approved by the Muhammad Nami led management, are part of the Service’s goal to...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria to tackle issues that lead to pervasive corruption and its effects on its economy. The advice was given when the IMF team, led by Mr Alin Shane, paid a consultation visit to the Independent Corrupt...
By TARGBA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Nigeria’s Portuguese manager, José Santos Peseiro has called on the three-time African champions to show guts, grit and gumption by aiming for victory over hosts Portugal in Thursday’s prestige international friendly in Lisbon. Both countries’ A squads go for each other’s jugular at the...
Senate has mandated its Committee on Banking, Insurance and other financial institutions to embark on an aggressive oversight to ensure Nigerians are adequately protected from operations of CBN, banks on implementation of the naira redesign policy. Senate resolution was sequel to a motion passed at plenary on Wednesday”on the...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has granted Nigeria 20,000 U.S dollars for the pilot training of literacy educators in the country. The UNESCO Representative, Regine Priso, said this at a two-day Validation Workshop of training modules of the Global Education Coalition (GEC)-Global Alliance for Literacy...
By TARGBA SHAAGEE, Abuja – Super Eagles Head Coach, José Santos Peseiro has the full compliment of invited players as three-time African champions Nigeria get set for what could be a fiery international friendly with Portugal in Lisbon on Thursday. In camp are goalkeepers Francis Uzoho, Maduka Okoye and...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – An international organisation, Instill Education, has said it would collaborate with the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) on teacher professional development. The group, whose vision is to transform teaching and school leadership across Africa, made this known on Monday during an advocacy visit...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned as “despicable and cowardly,” the terrorist bomb attack that claimed several lives and injured tens of others in an explosion in central Istanbul, Türkiye. The president condemned the terrorists’ attack in a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba...
The menace of drug abuse and trafficking present a grave danger to the nation. There is a nexus between drug trafficking on one hand and organised crimes such as terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. It has been a major dent on the nation’s image. Unfortunately, Nigeria is afflicted by...
By TARGBA SHAAGGEE, Abuja – Super Eagles Head Coach Jose Peseiro has named Captain William Ekong, goalkeeper Francis Uzoho and midfielder Wilfred Ndidi in a 23-man squad to face World Cup-bound Portugal in a friendly encounter in Lisbon on Thursday next week. There are also spaces for defenders Calvin...