We’ll screen him in plenary – Senate The Senate has said that it would screen the newly appointed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, in plenary. Its president, Ahmad Lawan, who disclosed this, said the planned screening in plenary is in line with the Senate tradition. He stated this on Tuesday […]
Continue Reading
The campaign manager of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and ex-Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has joined the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Daniel is expected to pick up his APC membership card on Tuesday. Already, he has notified his former party in a statement […]
Continue Reading
Dear President Buhari,This letter, my second to you in five months, will begin with a very, very absurd question: Mr. President, will Nigeria drift into another civil war under your watch simply because the ‘Giant of Africa’ does not know how to manage its cows? Yes, absurd: for, absurdity is the faithful cohort of the […]
Continue Reading
In this file photo taken on July 15, 2020 Nigerian former Foreign and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala smiles during a press conference in Geneva, following her hearing before World Trade Organization 164 member states’ representatives, as part of the application process to head the WTO as Director General. – Key WTO ambassadors tapped Nigeria’s Ngozi […]
Continue Reading
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, in the Southeast, says it will support any policy by the government that seeks to stop the clashes between host communities and the herdsmen. It listed conditions to be followed by the government to stop incessant clashes between its members and farmers in the country. Speaking […]
Continue Reading
Some Okada riders between the road dividing Teslim Balogun Stadium and National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos, where motorcycle operations are prohibited on Thursday, February 11, 2021. Photo: Dennis Erezi When the authorities in Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial capital and one of the country’s most populous states, banned commercial motorcycles and tricycles from major routes in […]
Continue Reading
FG moves to protect 180 other items Intrigues over appointment of substantive AfCFTA chief trade negotiator Rules of Origin abuse worries manufacturers 81% rules of origin negotiated, abuse worries manufacturers Despite Nigeria’s comparative advantage and self-sufficiency status in the production of certain products, cement, flour, rice, sugar and 180 other products would not be liberalised […]
Continue Reading
By Tunde Odesola History, like Ekiti’s Ikogosi springs of warm and cold fountains, embodies profundities. Either for good or bad reasons, history always cascades down the confluence of discovery, depth and truth, meandering into the past. Whenever history repeats itself for good, cymbals accompany resounding ovations – like the joy of a football cup game […]
Continue Reading
Governor Seyi Makinde Some people have lost their lives after a clash triggered by the fatal stabbing of a cobbler by a cart pusher in Sasha market, Ibadan, Oyo State, degenerated into an ethnic conflict. The two men had a misunderstanding on Thursday and in the process, the cart pusher, said to be a Hausa […]
Continue Reading
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde and his Ondo State counterpart, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Sunday visited the crisis-ridden Shasha community in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. During the visit, the governors appealed for calm and peaceful coexistence between the Hausa community and their Yoruba hosts. Suspected members of Yoruba and Hausa communities in Shasha had clashed […]
Continue Reading
