By Ugochukwu Alaribe, Umuahia People with disabilities under the aegis of the Joint National Association of Persons with Disability, JONAPWD, South-East zone, has decried the high state of insecurity in the South East and sued for peace in the zone. The Association who stated this during a visit to the Methodist Bishop and Co-Chair of […]

“On the Twitter ban, I can’t sit here with all the responsibilities that I have and flay the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, who is having all the prognosis of the security I don’t have, I can’t not begin to say what he has done is right or wrong.

…Says he’s preoccupied with helping to find solutions to Nigeria’s challenges By Dirisu Yakubu Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has said he has nothing to do with the campaign posters which surfaced in Abuja recently, linking him and Professor Charles Soludo to the 2023 Presidential election. Atiku in a statement signed by his […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166, 767. The centre said the 11  new infections were recorded in Lagos with nine cases, the FCT-one and Kano-one. The NCDC also said that there are 1, 544 active cases of COVID-19 in […]

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has so far registered 1.2 million Nigerians into the National Identity Database and has issued them with the National Identification Number (NIN) in Bauchi. Malam Isa Abdulmumin, NIMC Bauchi state coordinator, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN in Bauchi. He said the exercise […]

Established to bridge the gap in access to finance for women, impact investment platform, SME.NG is set to launch an e-market platform with the aim of empowering women-owned businesses with economic opportunities and business sustainability tools against the negative effects of the pandemic and economic downturn.

Worried by the worsening gridlock on the access roads leading to the country’s two busiest ports in Apapa, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has met with the Lagos State Government to map out strategies to tackle the menace. A statement by Olaseni Alakija, NPA General Manager, Strategic and Corporate Communications, indicated that NPA’s Acting Managing […]

The World Food Safety Day (WFSD) is celebrated June 7 annually to draw attention and inspire actions to help prevent, detect and manage food borne risks, thus contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agriculture, access to the markets, tourism and sustainable development.

By Dennis Agbo The Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately withdraw his genocidal threat on the Igbo people and put off every arrangement for its execution and apologize to Ndigbo. The Igbo communities said that their people are presently traumatized by Buhari’s divisive and unpresidential statement and […]

Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, on Monday demanded for justice over the alleged rape and murder of an undergraduate student of the University of Ilorin. The deceased 300-level student of Agricultural Science Department, University of Ilorin, who was living with her elder sister at the Tanke area of Ilorin, was found raped and […]

An international humanitarian organisation, De Norsemen Kclub International has discribed the federal government’s indefinite suspension on use of Twitter social media messaging as an ambush on democracy.

Former President Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other dignitaries from the public and private sectors are to attend the public presentation of a book on entrepreneurship holding in Abuja on Tuesday, June 8.

The Federal University Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE, has described as false and malicious reports by Media Monitor for Good Governance, MMGG, accusing the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abayomi Fasina, of criticising the Federal Government.

Dr Chima Amadi, the Chairman, Steering Committee of the Centre for Transparency Advocacy (CTA) has described the suspension of Twitter’s operation in Nigeria by the Federal government as an onslaught on free speech. In a statement on Sunday, Dr Amadi said the action of the government is an irresponsible display of official rascality, adding that […]

Flexible Luxury and Asset Payment Limited (FLAP) has announced Afeez Oyetoro, popularly known as Saka, as its brand ambassador, just as it launched its Agrolandvest project. At the weekend, the Group Managing Director of the multi-investment company, Mr. Oluwadurotimi Ojamamoye at its Magodo office, closed the deal with Saka, while introducing the AgrolandVest project. Agrolandvest […]