The Most Beautiful African Model 2020, Queen Felicia Boco carried out her pet project on Saturday 19th September 2020 a day before her birthday. The event was tagged “BACK TO SCHOOL” which was done to encourage children from rural areas to go back to school. During the event, school materials such as Exercise books, pen, …
A culture of heavy drinking has led to sexual molestation becoming the norm on a night out for young women – and they feel they have to put up with it, an academic report warns. In a disturbing insight into how 18 to 24-year-olds behave on a night out, a survey has found one in three …
By Williams Eghebi There is no doubt, the recently held gubernatorial election in Edo State, to a very great extent, has brought increased credibility to the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC. Aside the credibility to the electoral umpire, the election has added some currency to President Muhammadu Buhari whose rating dropped to all time low as a …
…Flood has washed away our clothes stripping us naked …I lost my 3 children to flood in one day—Distraught father …We lost 50,000 farms to flood —Kebbi Rice Farmers Secretary …Govs Bagudu, Abdulrasaq beg Buhari for help In January this year, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) released the Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP) and as it was …
Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu …Oduduwa, Biafra agitators unite, give FG ultimatum on referendum …Petition UN By Dapo Akinrefon Ahead of the 60th independence anniversary of Nigeria on October 1, agitators of Biafra Republic in the southeast, and their Oduduwa counterparts in the Southwest, yesterday, forged a common front to advance …
proposes domestication before 2023 general elections By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Ahead of 2023 generation elections in Nigeria, ActionAid Nigeria, Trade Union Congress, TUC, Yiaga Africa and others seek domestication of the African Charter on Democracy, Election and Governance, ACDEG, to Nigeria’s democratic system. This was their position at a ‘National Stakeholders’ Forum and Policy …
…Set up 7-member committee to meet NEC, NLC, others By Henry Umoru THE thirty- six state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF have called on the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC to exercise caution in its planned nation wide strike and mass protest, warning that such an action if carried out, would worsen …
Buhari decorates new IGP Abubakar Adamu …Says he takes responsibility for APC loss …Tells Obaseki, I congratulate you ‘reluctantly’ …It ‘ll be immoral for me to dump PDP — Obaseki By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari said in Abuja yesterday that as the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, he would not escape …
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan The hitherto whispered plots about Dr. Goodluck Jonathan contesting the 2023 presidential election are being revived by political strategists from Northern Nigeria who see him as a unifying force to keep the country one. The northern political operatives see President Jonathan as a unifying force around whom a government of national unity could …
By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja The national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has described the purported suspension of Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and the Political Adviser to the President, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu by different factions of the party in the state as a nullity. The Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the …
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. By Peter Okutu Ebonyi State Government, Friday, called on the people of the State to go about their normal businesses and ignore the call made by the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB for people to sit at home on October 1, 2020. IPOB had, …
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago. Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a …
…Rules out anointing his successor …Doubts Obaseki will return to APC but By Dirisu Yakubu Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike is known for his fearlessness and readiness to speak truth to power at all times. In the past years, the lawyer-turned politician has provided robust opposition to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari like no other. …
Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment By Emmanuel Aziken It was in the midst of negotiating with organized labour to avert a nationwide strike that local political rivals from his native Anambra State struck the minister of labour and productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige with a petition to his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. They …
Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Tukur Buratai on Wednesday expressed gratitude to governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum for fulfilling his pledges made to the families of deceased. Buratai’s appreciation were contained in a statement signed by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir …
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State Zulum on Tuesday at the burial of the late Commander in Maiduguri announced a donation of a befitting house and 20 million Naira to the widow and orphans left the deceased left behind. According to him, “it is a very sad moment, this is not a loss to the family …
…Borno, Yobe residents pay tributes By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri The sudden death of gallant officer, Col. Dahiru Chiroma Bako, the Commander of 25 Task Force Brigade of Operation Lafiya Dole has remained a shock to the residents of Borno and Yobe states. Bako died 24 hours after sustaining injury last Sunday in an ambush by Boko …
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State Jihadist fighters linked to the Islamic State group on Friday killed 15 security personnel in an ambush on the convoy of the Borno State governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, three security said. Sources told AFP that eight policemen, three soldiers and four members of a government-backed militia were killed in the attack …
Matthew Agbroko The Ethiope West Local Government Council chairmanship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Irikefe Matthew Agbroko has felicitated with the Delta State Governor Dr.Ifeanyi Okowa for bagging double award by Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) for “Pioneering Implementation of Residency Training in Nigeria’’ and as “Ambassador of State Health Tertiary Institution’’. …
Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment By Emmanuel Aziken It was in the midst of negotiating with organized labour to avert a nationwide strike that local political rivals from his native Anambra State struck the minister of labour and productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige with a petition to his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari. …
