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US interfaith leaders declare Nigeria ticking time bomb

US interfaith leaders declare Nigeria ticking time bomb

UNITED States-based Interfaith leaders, after a fact-finding mission to Northern Nigeria which has been under sectarian attacks, yesterday declared Nigeria a ticking time bomb which may soon become the most dangerous place on the planet.

Trump blasts Michelle Obama over her ‘love’ for Harvey Weinstein

Trump blasts Michelle Obama over her ‘love’ for Harvey Weinstein

Donald Trump has claimed former First Lady Michelle Obama loved disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein. The President of the United States hit out over Mrs Obama’s friendship with rapist mogul at a press conference in India Tuesday, saying: ‘I was never a fan of Harvey… ‘He was a person I never liked. I don’t know […]

Sokoto battles Polio with 597 health facilities, N400m counterpart funding

Sokoto battles Polio with 597 health facilities, N400m counterpart funding

Sokoto State government has achieved a significant increase in the number of health facilities that offer routine immunization against polio in the last one year from 553 to 597. Equally, the state government, revealed the commissioner for health, Dr Ali Inname, has within one year released N400m as its counterpart funding of the program on […]

West African single currency threatens Nigeria’s fiscal policies – Emerging Africa CEO

West African single currency threatens Nigeria’s fiscal policies – Emerging Africa CEO

Peter Egwuatu The Chief Executive Officer of Emerging Africa Group, Mrs. Toyin Sani, said on Monday the proposed single currency for West African countries would pose a serious threat to Nigeria’s monetary and fiscal policies. The Emerging Africa CEO said in a chat with our correspondent that economic growth in Sub-Sahara Africa was under pressure […]

Haulage: Senate mandates committee to investigate compliance to road safety laws

Haulage: Senate mandates committee to investigate compliance to road safety laws

The Senate on Tuesday mandated its committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs to investigate the level of compliance to road safety legislation among haulage operators, owners and drivers. The upper chamber also mandated the committee to investigate adoption and implementation of the recommendations from the 2018 haulage operators stakeholders’ summit among all relevant stakeholders. […]

District prosecutors to replace police in Lagos Magistrates Courts

District prosecutors to replace police in Lagos Magistrates Courts

Henry Ojelu The Lagos State Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo, (SAN), said the state government has concluded plans to deploy district officers to take over the prosecution of cases from the  police in the Magistrates Court Onigbanjo disclosed at the weekend while speaking with journalists on the report of the Advisory Committee […]

Catholics mark Ash Wednesday in black

Catholics mark Ash Wednesday in black

Today is Ash Wednesday. On this day, Christians all over the world begin a spiritual journey of repentance marked by prayer, penance, alms giving and other forms of charitable works. We do this in order to participate more intimately in the suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ, in preparation for the celebration of the solemn feast of his Resurrection at Easter.