England have been drawn in a group with Poland in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, while holders France will come up against Ukraine as well as Finland. Gareth Southgate’s England, semi-finalists at the 2018 tournament in Russia, will also take on Hungary in Group I. Holders France were handed an awkward draw […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has renominated Mr Ahmed Kuru as Managing Director, and Mr Eberechukwu Uneze and Mr Aminu Ismail as Executive Directors of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria for the final term of five years. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja […]

Hello @PoliceNG, I am calling for the immediate arrest of Mr. Pius Angbo of @channelstv for physically assaulting Dr. Ifeanyinwa Angbo, a medical doctor in Owerri. This woman just had a baby 4weeks ago and she got beaten up by her reckless husband. https://t.co/EFsU9SxIxq — Olúyẹmí Fásípè AICMC (@YemieFash) December 6, 2020 Peter Duru – […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja Worried by the level of malfeasance in public health institutions in the country, the federal government, Monday,promised to deal with the menace through imminent introduction of a fully automated electronic management system of patients’ records and finances. The government also vowed to strengthen accountability and transparency in public health institutions […]

FORMER Minister of Communications, Gen. Tajudeen Olarenwaju (retd), yesterday, mourned the late Gen. Domkat Bali saying Nigeria has lost a statesman.

Twenty Imo lawmakers on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, including the Speaker, Paul Emeziem, on Monday, said they had finalised plans to recommend the expulsion of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume to the national leadership and state executive of the party.

By Wole Mosadomi National Examinations Council (NECO) has set up an administrative panel to investigate some Schools and individuals involved in examination malpractices in the just concluded Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations,(SSCE) adding that such schools and individuals will be sanctioned. This warning followed a report received from the Authorities of Signature Television on Wednesday 2nd […]

As Security Agencies synergize to tackle banditry, kidnapping in Ekiti By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Worried about the upsurge of kidnappings and banditry in Ekiti State , the Ekiti State Government on Monday organized an inter security agency workshop on Exercise Crocodile Smile VI. This workshop is targeted at building the capacity of the security […]

The past is now in the past, Aregbesola assures Akeredolu By Dayo Johnson – Akure THE four years rift between the former governor of Osun State and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola and the Ondo State governor Rotimi Akeredolu over the 2016 governorship election has been resolved. Recall that Aregbesola in 2016 supported the candidature […]

By Luminous Jannamike In view of the nine-month-old strike embarked on by lecturers in public universities, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said it plans to engage with the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The new President of NANS, Mr. Sunday Asefon, revealed this during his maiden press conference […]

By Ozioruva Aliu Emotions flowed Monday at the Edo State Judicial Panel of Enquiry as a widow, Mrs. Patience Imaikop narrated how men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in 2013 killed her husband and three labourers he hired to help work in his farm in Uteh village, Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo state […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has accused a ‘faction’ of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the House of Representatives of dancing on the graves of victims of insecurity in Nigeria.

THE Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has expressed readiness to partner with the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, to provide all public universities with independent power supply.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Nigeria, BUA Group, one of Africa’s leading foods and infrastructure companies has donated three ambulances and 50,000 facemasks to Bauchi State in line with its continued efforts to combat the spread of the virus in the country.

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted recruitment examination for about 191,000 candidates that applied for jobs in the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.