Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday vowed to improve Nigeria’s economy with a “warm handshake” for the private sector. He said that Nigeria is currently being dressed in borrowed robes by the ruling All Progressives Congress administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s current debt, local and foreign, stands at N41 trillion, […]
Continue Reading
The Sustainable Peace Team, set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has called for an executive action by the Federal Government to propose to the National Assembly its decision on improved funding to address ASUU/FG impasse. Former Secretary General, CVCNU, Prof. Michael Faborode, made the call in an advisory paper […]
Continue Reading
A ‘concerned’ fan of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo has urged her spiritual mother, Chioma to advise her against recent ‘show off’ online. Obieze CIDP, via his Facebook page explained since Mercy Chinwo got married, she’s been engaging in a lot of social media showoffs, flaunting gifts she received from her husband. He said if caution […]
Continue Reading
Ekiti State House of Assembly, yesterday, voted unanimously for the creation of State Police and Judicial Autonomy in the ongoing fifth alteration to the Amendment to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Assembly also aligned with the National Assembly on the alteration to stipulated rules on how the principal officers of […]
Continue Reading
Photo by Daniel Slim / AFP The recent meetings in faraway London by Nigerian former, sitting, and aspiring ‘leaders’ to, ostensibly, ‘‘discuss Nigeria’’ is disgraceful and so indefensibly self-demeaning it should never have happened. The decision to abandon the fatherland to discuss its affairs in a foreign land is unwise and calls to question in […]
Continue Reading
Surveyor-general of Federation (OSGoF), Abudulgani Adebomehin, has said it will cost the Federal Government N15 billion to replace the Nigeria’s Administrative Map produced by the colonial masters. He told journalists in Abuja that when they came on board to meet an obsolete map, with many errors, they demanded authentic ones to contribute to the fight […]
Continue Reading
The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline project. Photo: AutoReportNG The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd will, on Thursday, seal a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on gas pipeline project with the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines of Morocco and the ECOWAS Commission. The MoU is expected to drive the execution of the 7,000km Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline […]
Continue Reading
Kenya’s President William Ruto talks to General Robert Kibochi, Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) during the official swearing-in ceremony, at the Moi International Sports Center Kasarani in Nairobi, on September 13, 2022. – Incoming Kenyan president William Ruto has clawed his way to the top as the nation’s “hustler-in-chief”, playing on his religious […]
Continue Reading
Managing Director, Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc, Adeoye Fadeyibi (left); Managing Director, Green Village Electricity, Ifeanyi Orajaka; Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad; U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for climate, John Kerry and other stakeholders during Kerry’s visit to Wuse market for inspection of the Market Green Energy Platforms in Abuja…yesterday. Photo: NAN Sign MoU […]
Continue Reading
As Federal High Court okays detention for 60 more days Department of State Services (DSS) has alleged its preliminary investigation established the offences of “logistics supplier, aiding and abetting acts of terrorism,” against terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu. The agency, in an affidavit in support of its ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022, filed before Justice Nkeonye Maha […]
Continue Reading
