By Rosemary Onuoha Despite the astronomical growth recorded in the pension fund, only 11 percent of workforce is enrolled in the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, and the micro pension schemes and this number needs to improve, the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria, PenOp, has said. Head of Media, Communications and Branding Committee of PenOp, […]

By Luminous Jannamike The Chairman and Publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, 58, who died on December 11, in Abuja, was yesterday buried amidst glowing tributes. The remains of the late business mogul, politician and philanthropist was buried at the Gudu Cemetery, Abuja after  service of songs at his FCT residence. His burial services, both […]

…Govt only interested in N-Delta’s oil and gas …Tele-guiding NDDC by North not new — NDRA …There’s pre-occupation with militarizing N-Delta — IYC leader …Niger Delta leaders inability to lobby, bane of region By Samuel Oyadongha, Jimitota Onoyume, Egufe Yafugborhi, Davies Iheamnachor & Chioma Onuegbu STAKEHOLDERS in Niger Delta have voiced out their worries at […]

By Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio FIVE persons, including a toddler, were among those who allegedly lost their lives during a shoot-out between two rival cult groups in the riverside town of Lobia II community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. There are conflicting reports on the number of the causalities, while […]

By James Ogunnaike Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old human trafficking kingpin, Comfort Innocent, for alleged abduction and trafficking of two under-aged girls. A statement by the command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, indicated that the suspect was apprehended on December 22, 2020. According to Oyeyemi, “the arrest of the suspect followed […]

…236,212 tested so far …Sets up 10 oxygen centres in high burden LGAs …NMA decries sensationalism attached to death of 20 doctors …30m Nigerians affected as Learning Poverty Rate rises to 63%  in Nigeria, others, due to COVID-19, says World Bank By Chioma Obinna, Adesina Wahab & Joseph Erunke The Lagos State Government has raised […]

AFTER over a decade of preliminary examination, the International Criminal Court, ICC, on December 11, 2020, announced its decision to formally open an investigation into allegations of war crimes against Nigerian security forces. ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said the court found reasonable basis to investigate Nigerian soldiers for crimes against humanity, alleged to have been […]

  Edo Government on Monday urged residents in the state to ensure they protected the elderly, adjudged most vulnerable to COVID-19, following the outbreak of a second wave of the pandemic. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Mr Osarodion Ogie, who gave the advice in a statement in Benin, on Monday, assured that government […]

The Malian authorities said Monday they had opened an inquiry into violation of state security, a move that came after half a dozen prominent figures were held for questioning earlier this month. The country, which underwent a coup in August, is in the hands of a transitional government scheduled to oversee a return to civilian […]

Sudan is to send troop reinforcements to the south of its Darfur region after 15 people were killed in tribal clashes, the official news agency SUNA said. The governor of South Darfur state, Musa Mahdi, announced “the deployment of a large number of military forces in order to arrest those involved in the clashes and […]

Ngozi Omambala is the Managing Director of NMO Management, an entertainment industry and also the founder of ‘Loud N Proud Live Series’, multi-artist live music platform for established and upcoming musicians. Speaking in a recent interview with Vera Anyagafu, Omambala who is a chartered accountant from the Leeds Metropolitan University United Kingdom talked about the […]

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Monday announced a new ban on alcohol sales and said mask-wearing will be mandatory in public after the nation became the first to record one million coronavirus cases in Africa. Ramaphosa justified a raft of new measures by a “rapid rise” in infections, most by a new strain of […]

The Lagos State Government will inaugurate 10 Oxygen and Sampling centres to improve management of severe-to-critical COVID-19 cases. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this during a media briefing on the update of the second wave of COVID-19 in Lagos on Monday. Abayomi said that the state would deploy oxygen therapy […]

A white police officer who shot dead a Black man in Columbus, Ohio, last week was fired on Monday, city officials said. The death of Andre Maurice Hill triggered outrage in a country that has been racked by protests against police brutality and systemic racism since the spring. The 47-year-old African-American was in the garage […]

President-elect Joe Biden said Monday that Donald Trump’s appointees at the Pentagon were stalling on the transition and warned that the United States faces security risks as a result. After he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris were briefed by their transition teams on national security, Biden said that political appointees at the Pentagon as well […]