By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja By year 2039, Nigeria may have lost all its vegetation and experience serious environmental hazard unless urgent steps are taken to reverse the trend. Senior Climate Specialist and County Director of Solidaridad West Africa, a solution-oriented Civil Society Organisations, Dr. Sam Ogallah stated this, weekend, in Lokoja during the inauguration […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described as waste of tax payers’ money, the N4.8 billion earmarked by the Federal Government for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to monitor WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging application and Thuraya, a satellite telephone. Recall that the National Assembly had approved the sum of N982 billion as […]

The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, has disclosed that top of its submission at the recently concluded national assembly zonal public hearings on the amendment of the 1999 constitution was its quest to extend the tenure of local government chairmen to statutory four years.

By Georgia Agada Not long ago, we were jolted by the news of the unfortunate death of Miss Keren-Happuch Akpagher, a 14-year-old boarding student of the Premiere Academy, Abuja. From her mother’s narrative, Keren was said to have been molested in the school, and as a result, died a few days later. It will be […]

By Chiedu Uche Okoye IS Nigeria not a British contraption? During the colonial era, it was Lord Frederick Lugard, a one-time governor-general of Nigeria, who cobbled Nigeria’s northern and southern protectorates together for administrative convenience. And his mistress, Miss Flora Shaw, christened the place Nigeria. Nigeria, a British creation, is a disparate political and ethnic […]