A clergyman, Felix Aluko, says former President Goodluck Jonathan will be returned to Aso Rock, Abuja if he decides to vie for the 2023 Presidential Election. Aluko, the senior pastor of the Resurrected Assembly (GROM), made the prophetic declaration on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that Jonathan would return...
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The federal government has been accused of lying after it claimed that the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, and critics of the president were the reason the US delayed arrival of 12 Super Tucano jet fighters to fight insecurity in the country. Northern Elders Forum (NEF)...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Being Vice President, and at some point, Acting President, and the invaluable experience acquired over the past seven years is like a training to become President, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Monday at the palace of the...
Introduction In the last week, there was a big match between the World Bank team captained by the President, Mr. David Malpass and Nigeria captained by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed ably assisted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emiefele....
By Benjamin Orisemeke, Abuja – The Federal Government’s fiscal deficit hits a whopping N2.23 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria economic report for the last quarter of 2021. The report said the 12 per cent contraction in fiscal deficit followed a...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says it has contributed $768 million dollars to Nigeria’s fight against malaria from 2011 to date. This is contained in a statement issued by USAID Mission Director in Nigeria, Dr Anne Patterson, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – It is no more news that Nigeria has good policies and programme in every facet of the society but the reoccurring dilemma has been a lack of political will to implement them. Stakeholders in education sectors including UNICEF, the media, Civil Society Organizations and...
Why should our 54 countries not lend weight to each other in international bodies, compounding our influence as the EU does? What becomes of the Commonwealth should one of its 15 members that is not a republic join those 39 others which are? With Jamaica considering such a move,...
A video has surfaced showing a set of twins allegedly getting married to same bride. The incident was reported to have happened in the south western part of Nigeria. In the video, the twins were seen alongside the bride as they were blessed by the woman’s family. Watch video HERE.
The former Senate President and presidential aspirant under the People Democratic Party (PDP) Bukola Saraki says the choice of Leadership Nigerians make in 2023 is critical to the nation’s economic development. He said this while addressing the party’s delegates in Minna, the Niger State Capital ahead of the forthcoming...
President Muhammadu Buhari, at various events last week enjoined Nigerians to partner with the Federal Government in resisting agents of destabilisation. Buhari made the declaration during the breaking of Ramadan fasting attended by governors, ministers and heads of government agencies on April 19. He said some elements were bent...
In 2005, a US National Intelligence Council paper “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future” floated the idea there could be a military coup in Nigeria. At the time this was hardly an earth-shattering prediction: 2005 was only six years after the return of civilian democratic rule and just over a decade...
A cleric, Pastor Dan Horn on Saturday night urged Nigerians to pray to God to intervene in the current challenges facing the country. Horn, the Pastor of the Reformation Baptist Church, South Carolina, U.S., said this while speaking at an interdenominational crusade held in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area...
President Muhammadu Buhari has once again issued fresh directives to security agencies to rescue all those in captivity across the country and advance the acquisition of intelligence. The National Security Adviser, Babagana Munguno disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the National Security Council meeting held on Thursday and...
Ex-Anambra State Governor and Presidential aspirant, Peter Obi has promised to turn the country around in four years if elected into office in 2023. Mr Obi stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital during the Anambra Central Senatorial District stakeholders’ briefing/town hall meeting organised by Senator Uche Ekwunife to...
The President of Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Arogungbogunmi, Pastor Henry Ojo, has said that God told him that only two of the presidential aspirants who have disclosed their intentions so far have the love of the country at heart. He urged Nigerians to shun ethnic and religious sentiments by...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martins Griffiths has allocated US$15 million emergency funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support urgently needed humanitarian assistance in north-east Nigeria. “The food security and nutrition situation is deteriorating,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – For Nigeria to continue to be relevant as a major player in the global oil and gas industry, it must come up with innovative ways of exploiting and exploring its abundant oil and gas. The minister of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva stated this on...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that Dubai, United Arab Emirate (UAE), had now become the destination of choice of victims of human trafficking. Mr. Nduka Nwanwenne, Zonal Commander, NAPTIP, Benin Zonal Command, made the disclosure on Wednesday, in Benin, at the...
Bode George, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party will be “roundly defeated” in the 2023 presidential election if zoning is jettisoned. The PDP is yet to make a decision on which region of the country will produce the party’s 2023 presidential candidate. The development has...