THERE exist some points that highlight as impressive the recent launch at the State House, Abuja, of the National Development Plan, NDP, 2021-2025, a successor plan to both the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP 2017-2020, and the Vision 20:2020, by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.

The Diocese of Nnewi, Anglican Communion, is set to open a Centre for Coding and Robotics to provide opportunity to the children in the diocese to be in tune with the 21st Century digital revolution, the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Ndubuisi Obi has announced.

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BULLYING, a situation where stronger children prey on the weakness and vulnerability of others, has sadly become a worrisome issue in our country, especially among children in secondary schools. 

BUSINESS op-erators, big and small, are crying out over sundry levies being imposed on them by the various governments in the South- East region. They lament that many of the levies do not go into the coffers of government. Some alleged, however, that the illegal collectors are working for some senior government officials.

France has announced new COVID-19 measures in a bid to stem a surge in infections as concern rises worldwide over the rapid spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. From January 3, working from home will be mandatory for at least three days per week for those who can do so, while public gatherings will […]

THE amalgamation of the hundreds of scattered ethno-political groups across the geographical plane now known as Nigeria has always come at a cost – the separation of the people across ethnic and religious divides.

Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission , TRRC, says  ex-President  Yahya Jammeh is responsible for the killing of West African migrants,  including nine Nigerians. Jammeh, who has lived in exile in Equatorial Guinea since his departure from the Gambia in January 2017, was accused of human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary detention. READ […]

Determined to improve on the country’s socio-economic indices, 26 states of the federation will spend a larger percentage of their 2022 budgets on capital projects.

By Shina Abubakar Following the killing of unidentified person in Igbaye, due to crisis emanating at a carnival celebration, the Osun State government has appealed to residents of the community to allow peace to reign. A statement issued by the state’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, stated that chieftaincy tussles are not […]

The 2019 Imo state governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu, on Tuesday, alleged that the security operatives who bundled him from Imo State to Abuja were attached to the state government.

Justice J. Nwokorie of a Federal High Court in Benin , Edo state has ruled against continued gas flaring in Iwhrekan community, Delta state in a case filed by Mr. Jonah Gbemre for the community against Shell , SPDC,  Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, as first, second and third defendants respectively.

By Rotimi Ojomoyela Ado-Ekiti—Former Secretary to the Ekiti State government and All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in the state, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, has said agitations for the zoning of the ticket to Ekiti South Senatorial district cannot deprive him of his fundamental rights to vie for the position. Oyebanji, who is from Ekiti Central, […]

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former Delta State gubernatorial aspirant, Sunny Onuesoke has said that Nigeria had a better economy under PDP.

By Dayo Johnson The Senator representing Ondo South at the National Assembly, Nicholas Tofowomo, has said that the dismantling of roadblocks on the Sagamu/Ore/Benin highway would ameliorate the frustration of commuters plying the road. The new Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Oyediran Oyeyemi, had, during an unscheduled visit to the Benin/Ore expressway to supervise the […]