Germany has banned the Islamist organisation, Ansaar International, and several of its sub-organisations. “The network finances terrorism worldwide with donations,’’ Steve Alter, spokesman for Germany’s Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer tweeted on Wednesday. Alter quoted Seehofer as saying: “If you want to fight terror, you have to dry up its sources of money.’’ The justification for […]

Delta State Government on Tuesday charged protocol officers to be good ambassadors of the state by being diligent in their duties at all times. 

Grammy award-winning singer, Burna Boy’s single “Ye” has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His Mother and Manager, Mrs Bose Ogulu disclosed this on her IG handle @thenamix. With this new feat added to his outstanding international achievement, ‘Ye’ becomes the fastest Nigerian song to be certified ‘Gold’ by RIAA.Burnaboy’s […]

Undoubtedly, Nigeria will forever be grateful for having a Legal Luminary, historian, writer, arbitrator like the renowned Olasupo Shasore who is highly regarded for always putting Nigeria up for recognition through constant hosting and chairing of local and international events. Our online platform gathered that Olasupo Shasore who is a former Attorney General of Lagos […]

All is now set for the Yaba College of Technology Congregation to elect 2 academic and 1 non teaching staff into the College Governing Council on Thursday May 6, 2021. In the report made available to our correspondent, the Electoral Committee set up by the College Management says 3 non-teaching staff and 6 academic staff […]

On August 3, 2017, the United States Department of State con firmed the approval of the sale of 12 pieces of A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft to Nigeria worth $593m

By Okoh Aihe GOOD news is almost a rarity in the land; so, when it comes, we almost have to stand on the rooftop to celebrate it with big megaphones in our hands. The other day we celebrated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for clinching the top job as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Eleven years after his demise, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua still has a place in the heart of his then vice president, Goodluck Jonathan. Yar’Adua died on 5 May 2010 at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa after battling an illness that kept him away from public eyes. Paying tribute on Wednesday to […]

By Emmanuel Okogba Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the Islamic cleric who said bandits should be granted amnesty has called on the federal government to pay the N100 million ransom demanded by kidnappers of Greenfield University students to prevent the situation from degenerating further. Gumi also said, Tuesday, that Boko Haram was responsible for the kidnap and […]

…As 58,222 test positive; LASG maps out strategy against third wave infections By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Chioma Obinna Over three fifths (61 percent) of travelers who arrived in Lagos State in April 2021 have been untraceable till date in the curtailment efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic in the State. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, […]

By David Odama Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State yesterday warned that his administration might be overwhelmed if the unwarranted killings and wanton destruction of property among others were not stopped by warring Fulani herders and Tiv farmers in the state. The governor who spoke while addressing the Tiv and Fulani communities of Rukubi and […]

Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict could escalate to wider violence if federal and state governments fail to implement the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP), the International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned. In a new 26-page report published on its website on Tuesday, titled ‘Ending Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Crisis: The Livestock Reform Plan’, the Brussels-based global conflict research and […]

According to statistics released by the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria(CEAN), Nigerians spent a whopping N6.6 billion on movie tickets in 2019, a 200% increase from the N2 billion spent the previous year in just 70 cinema houses across the country.

…Perpetrators of violence in S’East are anti-Igbo —BIM …Ebonyi closes illegal, private motor parks …Nigeria cruising on highway to abyss —Ohuabunwa …British arrangement no longer working for Nigeria —Bishop Amah …Buhari should take drastic actions —Obi By Anayo Okoli, Chidi Nkwopara, Peter Okutu, Chimaobi Nwaiwu & Steve Oko The Movement for the Actualization of the […]

The challenges facing the Nigerian worker include poor remuneration, high cost of living, casualisation, insecurity, nepotism, over-bloated wages of political office holders, and poor or non-existent retirement and leave benefits