President Muhammadu Buhari has extended heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and associates of Peter Enahoro, one of Nigeria’s foremost journalists, who died on Tuesday at the age of 88. He made his feelings known in a statement by his media aide, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him, as a gifted and […]
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Special Personal Tribute By Kayode Soyinka When I left Concord newspapers as London Correspondent in October 1983, I was not sure what to do next. I did not know where my next job would be. This was the time when I needed a job the most. I had just got married, and my wife and […]
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Former Military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, was the first Nigerian leader to introduce an interim national government on August 27, 1993, following annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, acclaimed to have been won by the presidential candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (PDP), Chief M.K.O. Abiola. Babangida appointed the late […]
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Asks Lagos ex-gov to decline inauguration if unfit Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, took a swipe on recent medical trips by President-elect Bola Tinubu, stressing that he has shown the tendency to take after President Muhammadu Buhari, who has a knack for similar venture. In a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade […]
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A burnt car on a deserted street in Khartoum, Sudan. Photo: AFP The Federal Government will today commence the evacuation of about 5,500 Nigerians, including students stranded in Khartoum and other cities in Sudan. To facilitate the repatriation, the government has released N150 million for hiring 40 buses to convey its desperate citizens from Sudan […]
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People evacuated from Sudan arrive at a military airport in Amman on April 24, 2023. – Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan as deadly fighting raged into a second week between forces loyal to two rival generals. (Photo by Khalil Mazraawi / AFP) The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social […]
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• Six-hour economy return-trip between N1.1m and N2.97m • Qatar, European carriers repatriate from I&E window, reopen naira inventories • Air travel goes elitist, exclusive to the rich, needs local capacity – experts say For the third time in less than a month, the rate of exchange (RoE) applicable to foreign airlines has ballooned, hitting […]
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Veteran journalist and one of the most celebrated columnists of his era, Peter Enahoro, popularly known by his pen name Peter Pan, has died. He passed away in London, the United Kingdom on Monday, aged 88. His passage was announced in a terse statement by Ms Bunmi Sofola, also an iconic journalist in her own […]
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President-elect Bola Tinubu waves supporters on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja after a one-month break abroad Ahead of the May 29, 2023 handover, the president-elect, Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Monday to a rapturous reception by hundreds of his supporters and well-wishers across the country. According to The Guardian, the president-elect […]
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Photo: Reuters More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday. “It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation,” Borrell told journalists. Borrell said 21 diplomats from the EU’s mission in Khartoum were taken out and […]
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