By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Nigeria’s Intervention Team comprising prominent Islamic scholars in the country at the weekend met with the coup leaders in Niger where both parties agreed to intensify the option of dialogue in resolving the political crisis in that country. The Islamic Ulammas led...
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A former Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen. Shehu Sani, says military incursion into Niger Republic by an ECOWAS standby force will be synonymous with a declaration of war by Nigeria. Sani expressed this thought in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
A former Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen. Shehu Sani, has urged ECOWAS leaders to allow Nigeriens to fight for democratic rule in their country like Nigerians did. Sani, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja....
In today’s difficult economy and especially in the aftermath of numerous global economic upheavals, corporate players are devising creative ways to keep their businesses afloat. Employees and other stakeholders are in like term looking for ways to keep their jobs alive and active. Part of that creative efforts to...
The ECOWAS Heads of State and Government have agreed to continue the dialogue option while not dismantling the existing sanctions taken at the last summit. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, disclosed this at the end of the second extraordinary summit on the political situation in...
Vice President Kashim Shettima, says the Tinubu administration is prioritising Climate Change interventions to address the menace of desertification, coastal erosion, and flooding in the country. Shettima, in a statement by Mr Olusola Abiola, Director of Information, Office of the Vice President, on Thursday in Abuja, said the...
The Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are holding a meeting on Thursday in Abuja on the political situation in the Niger Republic. The leaders are to decide on the next lines of action after the series of proposition made...
The National Population Commission (NPC) says it has put everything in place to conduct the 2023 population and housing census. The NPC Federal Commissioner in Adamawa, Clifford Zirra, disclosed that the commission was only waiting for instructions from President Bola Tinubu to start the exercise. Zirra spoke...
A new set of sanctions have been imposed on groups, organisations and individuals identified as giving support to the military junta in the Republic of Niger. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, revealed this on Tuesday in Abuja while briefing State...
Tensions remain high in the aftermath of a coup in Niger Republic as the military junta refused entry to a negotiating mission planned for Tuesday by the United Nations, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU). The military governments of Mali and Burkina...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – President Bola Tinubu and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu have joined the family, friends and congregants of the Fountain of Life Church, in mourning the death of Senior Pastor Taiwo Odukoya. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that Pastor Odukoya died on Monday, Aug....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has distributed 30,000 bags of food items to 10 000 households as palliatives in Banki town Monday . The items distributed 10,000 bags of 25kg of rice, 10,000 bags of 25kg of maize, and 10,000 bags of 10kg...
Recent events in the affairs of our nation, most especially the risk of destabilising the entire West African region by the ECOWAS leaders necessitates the need to once again speak out and to call on all Nigerians to stand united in calling the ECOWAS leaders to order...
A human rights and constitutional lawyer, Mr Festus Ogun has written to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to probe a forgery allegation against Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, a ministerial nominee from Ondo state. In the letter addressed to the NYSC Director-General, copies of which were made available to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday flagged off the distribution of food palliatives residents of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) and Jere Local Government Council with a view to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal by the federal government. The Governor...
A ministerial nominee from Kogi State, Shuaibu Audu, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will emerge among the 20 largest economies in the world, under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Shuaibu, a son of the late Kogi governor, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, said this when he appeared for screening at...
Following the coup that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic, leaders of the Economic of West African Countries (ECOWAS) and the region’s Defence Chiefs in separate meetings have made far-reaching decisions aimed at resolving the political stalemate in the country. Contrary to the claim in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday laid foundation stone for the establishment of 1,350 megawatts Gwagwalada Independent Power Plant (GIPP) Project sited in Gwagwalada area council of the FCT. The project is being carried out through a partnership between the Nigerian National...
Kogi State’s ministerial nominee, Prince Shaibu Audu-Abubakar, on Thursday, paid a thank you visit to Gov Yahaya Bello. Audu-Abubakar is among the additional 19 ministerial nominees of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is according to a statement issued in Lokoja by Bello’s media aide, Onogwu Mohammed. ...