Social media networks like Facebook and Instagram were back online in Ethiopia on Wednesday after being blocked for five months, according to an internet advocacy organisation and an AFP journalist. A service run by the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an association that tracks online censorship, showed that access to social networks in Africa’s […]
Continue Reading
The immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, attended the Katsina Development Fund 2023 Retreat hosted by the state governor, Dr. Dikko Umaru Radda. The event which took place at the Katsina State Government House is his first official function since handing over power to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29. He was received […]
Continue Reading
Says APC ruining Nigeria with its ‘ill-thought-out, badly planned, and hurriedly-executed policies’ The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that fuel should not sell for more than N150 per litre in Nigeria. It said this in the wake of the recent increase in the pump price of fuel across the country. Recent findings showed that […]
Continue Reading
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has told Nigerians that he will deliver on the promises he made despite the challenges currently facing the country. He said this on Wednesday in his address to Muslims to usher in the New Islamic Year while imploring them to imbibe the important values of patience, perseverance, and faithfulness, which were […]
Continue Reading
Tobi Amusan, Nigeria’s queen of the tracks and Women’s hurdles world record-holder has dismissed a doping rule violation charge leveled on her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). “I am a clean athlete, and I am regularly; (maybe more than usual) tested by the AIU,’’ the 26-year-old athletics sensation posted on her Instagram page on […]
Continue Reading
Says N8,000 monthly to 12 million households a waste The Committee For The Defence Of Human Rights (CDHR) Osun State chapter, has criticised the planned payment by the Federal Government of N8,000 monthly palliative for six months to 12 million ‘most vulnerable’ families each as wasteful, illogical, ridiculous, and unacceptable. It called on Governor Ademola […]
Continue Reading
Residents of Osun State are groaning following the increase in fuel pump price e as transportation farws within the state have skyrocketed. In Osogbo, the state capital, intra commercial transport services popularly called Korope’ charge N200 per drop in short distances while Okada charges N300 or N400 depending on the distance . Most filling stations […]
Continue Reading
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has awarded a N40 million research grant to Prof. Dimie Ogoina, a recipient of the 2023 Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Persons in the World. Diri made the pronouncement yesterday when Ogoina, accompanied by members of the planning committee for celebrating the recipient, paid him a courtesy visit in Yenagoa. […]
Continue Reading
House of Representatives, yesterday, raised the alarm that Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) willfully withheld public revenue of about N2 trillion. Uduak Odudoh, who raised the allegation in a motion, accused NNPCL of disrespecting and downplaying the collective intelligence of Nigerians. He noted that Section 162(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of […]
Continue Reading
After 50 days in office, President Bola Tinubu has sent the list of his ministerial nominees to the Senate, and to be read out today by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. It was gathered that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Magaji Tambuwal, received the letter containing the list yesterday. As mandated by […]
Continue Reading
