President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday urged media practitioners to be sensitive in carrying out their duties and avoid reports that can further worsen the situation the country is going through. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President made the call in his message to mark the […]
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Senate President, Ahmad Lawan The Senate has declared that nobody, group or organisation has approached the upper chamber of the National Assembly with any concrete evidence that could warrant the sacking of the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. The Minister has been in the news since the audio clips of his alleged […]
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Senate Minority Leader Enyinnaya Abaribe has absolved the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other pro-Biafran agitators of culpability in the attacks on police facilities and killing of security operatives in the Southeast. He noted the attacks were being carried out by those he described as ‘fifth columnists imported into Igboland’ whose key motivation […]
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Video of cleric blasting Buhari for being stingy goes viral The Presidency and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, on Saturday came under verbal attacks from many Nigerians over claims by the Aso Rock Villa that the clergy was angry with President Muhammadu Buhari over a failed contract bid. […]
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Governors’ Absence Raises Concerns Orbih: Afegbua On His Own We Support NEC, Says Plateau PDP The National Executice Committee, NEC, of Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has passed a confidence vote on the party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus. Its passage is said to be PDP NEC’s last resort after concerned […]
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India is setting almost-daily records for new infections and deaths as the virus crisis engulfs overstretched hospitals in cities and spreads into rural regions. Image Credit: AFP More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose to […]
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Nigeria on Sunday banned passengers from Brazil, India and Turkey as the countries battle third wave of coronavirus with effect from May 4. People who have visited the country within 14 days preceding their travel to Nigeria will also not be allowed entry. The Nigerian authorities said airlines that fail to comply with measures will […]
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President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba (third right); President, Trade Union Congress, Comrade Quadri Olaleye (third left); former President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Najeem Yasin (second right) and other members of the NLC Executive during the 2021 May Day celebration in Abuja… yesterday Photo: NAN Laments Dwindling Resources, […]
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By Sola Adeyegbe Indeed, man has the duty to work out his own redemption! It is his duty and he is already endowed with the abilities to do this. He must clean himself. The detergent, the water and all he needs are already available to him in the Holy Word of God brought to him […]
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He who would dance with the gods By Yinka Fabowale Here begins the series of my reminiscences as a journalist in The Guardian published in the newly-out “The Making of Nigeria’s Flagship: A story of The Guardian.” In the following days, I will be sharing my contribution to the book detailing how I was forged […]
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