By Luminous Jannamike The President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle, on Thursday, tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to prioritise investment in food production to reduce hunger and fast-track economic well-being of the people, especially women and girls. Ayokunle, who spoke at CAN’s launch of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence […]

Chairmanship aspirant for Ethiope East Local Government Council of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the forthcoming Local Government Elections in Delta State, Mr.Augustine Usinefe Ogedegbe, has told the residents of the Local Government that he is committed to the service of Ethiope East as a Servant-Leader not as a Leader and will live up to his campaign promises when elected.

…Says chances exist for Jonathan, others …Buhari has woefully faile Nigerians over incessant killings By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief & Dirisu Yakubu The Peoples Democratic Party will not be drawn to the politics of zoning its 2023 Presidential ticket until the committee set up to review the party’s performance in the 2019 general elections […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Thursday warned the 36 state governors to stop the idea of borrowing or withdrawing N17 trillion from the pension funds for infrastructural development. The NLC said that pension money was in the retirement savings of workers and cannot be borrowed, vowing that it would mobilise Nigerian workers […]

Emotions ran high at Ajali, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State as the former Minister of Aviation Chief Osita Chidoka, former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, Sen. Victor Umeh, Hon Obinna Chidoka, Prof. Charles Soludo, Prof Humphrey Nwosu and eminent personalities eulogized the late elder statesman and Chancellor of Eastern Mandate […]

Mr Nnamdi Okafor, Managing Director, May& Baker Nigeria Plc, is set to retire by the end of this business year, after almost a decade-long tenure laced with several milestones and further consolidation of the leading pharmaceutical company into one of few Africa’s globally certified centres of excellence in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has advocated for the prosecution of people still involved in the age-old practice of female genital mutilation in the Ekiti state. The head of UNICEF for Ekiti, Osun, Oyo states, Mrs Aderonke Olutayo who frowned at the continuous practise of the act in the […]

Faisal, son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Force Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was declared wanted by the Federal High Court in Abuja, has been arrested.

By Emma Nnadozie The lingering crisis at the Balogun Business association, BBA, International market, Lagos took a new dimension, yesterday, after His Lordship, Honorable Justice (Professor) Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, after several hours of heated arguments from lawyers made an interim order of injunction restraining an alleged unlawful Electoral Panel  set up […]

By Davies Iheamnachor A man identified as Hon. Skin Kinikanwo Amadi has allegedly been stabbed to death by his wife in Nkpolu-Rumuigbo, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. The victim, a one-time supervisory Councillor in Obio/Akpor LGA, was allegedly killed by his wife, Ihuoma Amadi, the biological mother of his (Skin’s)children Wednesday night. It […]

By Chris Onuoha The celebrated ‘On Air Personality, Toyin Ohio-Alegbe has stepped up her creative acumen with an establishment of a fashion outfit called Awawubelloloungers. Toyin who anchors a radio talk show programme, “Labalaba Oro” on Radio Nigeria delved into designs as a fulfillment of her childhood love and passion for fashion. She described her […]

…reconfirm President assured lawmakers of coming; yet to give reasons for shunning invite By Levinus Nwabughiogu House of Representatives has vehemently refuted the claims by the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami that the National Assembly lacked powers to invite the President for questioning. In what appeared like a rebuttal […]

As security operatives arrest his fleeing son, Faisal By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja Erstwhile Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abulrasheed Maina, on Thursday, collapsed before the Federal High Court in Abuja at the resumed proceeding of the 12-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him. Maina, […]

By James Ogunnaike Leadership of the Ogun State House of Assembly and the Police on Thursday divided as suspected hoodlums  burgled the Assembly complex and carted away the Assembly mace. Vanguard gathered that men of the underworld broke into the speaker, Olakunle Oluomo’s office overnight and stole the official symbol of the legislature. It was […]

By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja Minister of State in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has called on pension managers in the FCT Administration to eradicate the delay in remitting pension contributions. Special Assistant, Media, to the minister, Mr Austin Elemue in a statement said Dr gave the charge at a two-day […]