The Rivers State Chapter of the African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) has condemned in its totality the persecution of Dr Mrs Seinye O. B. Lulu-Briggs, the wife of late High Chief O. B. Lulu-Briggs. The organisation, through its Rivers State Secretary, Hilda Desmond Ihekaire (MCArb), while speaking on a live radio programme discussing proposed amendments […]

What happens when an artist debut album goes viral? Or however, how does it shape the course of their career? If they’re not fated to be a one-hit wonder—a term quickly losing its meaning in the age of sundry streaming services—then does this type of bold introduction forever influence the way listeners consume their music?

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, says with the phenomenal increase in rice production and processing in the country, Nigeria will be exporting the commodity in the next two years. The minister stated this on Thursday in Kura, Kano state during an assessment tour of the impact of the border drill on […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has on Thursday said that the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are the two best president Nigeria may never have.

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, of Kano State, on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to sustain the Border Drill Policy and assistance to rice farmers for Nigeria to attain food sufficiency.

The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, said it did not violate the court order on the release of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Counsel to the DSS, Hassan Liman, SAN, made the remark in an interview with newsmen shortly after the Federal High Court sitting in the ongoing […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Jan. 25, 2020 to conduct 28 outstanding court-ordered re-run elections in 12 states. The commission announced this in a statement issued by Mr. Festus Okoye,  National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Thursday in Abuja. Okoye said that the decision was arrived at the […]

Following a 24-hour ultimatum that was handed to it by the Federal High Court in Abuja, the Department of State Service, DSS, on Thursday evening, released pro-democracy activist and convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, from detention. Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election […]

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said on Thursday the House would file impeachment charges against President Donald Trump for alleged abuse of power. “Our democracy is what is at stake, the president leaves us no choice but to act,” the top elected Democrat said. Mr. Trump said Democrats have “gone […]

The Senate has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu to reduce the number of checkpoints on federal highways in the country.

Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of an FCT High Court Maitama, on Thursday, foreclosed the prosecution in the trial of Sen. Dino Melaye for alleged falsehood. Melaye, who until recently represented Kogi West in the Senate, is standing trial on a two-count charge bordering on giving false information to the police. He was alleged to have sometimes […]

The Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, said it did not violate the court order on the release of Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare

Sapele-born, Warri-bred Afro-fusion singer known as Dimplez, born Esiri Steve has walked his way into the list of Nigerian artistes that shook the foundation of the music industry in 2019 with the release of the video to his hit ‘Dangote’ featuring the Banga Lee, D’banj, Oladapo, Oyebanjo.

The House of Representatives Committee on Pensions has frowned at the Nigeria Pension Commission (PENCOM) for spending it’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) without the approval of the National Assembly. The Chairman of the Committee Rep. Alhassan Rurum (APC-Kano) expressed dissatisfaction with the expenditure at an investigative hearing on Thursday in Abuja. He said that manner […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it lived up to its constitutional mandate in the conduct of the November Governorship and Supplementary Elections in Kogi against widespread disaffections.