The Senate: Ahmad Lawan’s stewardship
By Hassan A. Nguru One of the endless discussions on Nigeria’s cyberspace and across the media is; if it is worth it, for Nigeria to maintain upper and lower chambers of the legislature. As a democracy, doing away with the legislature is out of the question. But the at the centre of these debates is […]
Zhang Zhan: the defiant citizen journalist jailed for challenging China’s virus story
Frail and in a wheelchair from prolonged hunger strike, 37-year-old former lawyer Zhang Zhan issued a mostly silent rebuke to the Chinese legal system, before being jailed for publishing stories about the pandemic that China does not want to be told. Zhang started reporting from Wuhan in February, questioning the lockdown of the city, access […]
Group praises Buhari, Service Chiefs for return of peace to north-east, peaceful Christmas
The NorthEast Peace Ambassadors (NEPA) says President Muhammadu Buhari and the nation’s service chiefs deserve credit for the return of peace and another Christmas celebration free from attacks in the region. The group gave the commendation at a press conference on Tuesday in Modu Ganari, Maiduguri, Borno State. In a statement co-signed by Alhaji Sadiq Bulama […]
2020 UTME: No date fixed for sales of application documents yet – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says no date has been fixed for the commencement of sales of the application documents for its 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. […]
NIDCOM, Foreign Affairs ministry to rescue Nigerian death row inmate in Saudi Arabia – Abike Dabiri
The family of Sulaimon Olufemi, a Nigerian sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, in Lagos approached the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) seeking its intervention to save him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sulaimon was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in 2002, for reportedly being part of a mob […]
Sunu Assurances completes first phase of recapitalisation
Sunu Assurances Nigeria Plc has successfully completed the first phase of its recapitalisation plan by increasing shareholders’ fund to N6.61 billion in 2020 from N3.47 billion in 2019.
