By Sebastine Obasi President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva will feature in the upcoming “Decade of Gas” conference and high-level networking session scheduled for March 29, 2021. The event, with the theme, “Towards a Gas-powered Economy by 2030” is a pre-summit conference of […]

At least one in three patients hospitalised with Covid-19 suffer long-term health issues including multiple organ problems and deteriorated mental health, according to a review of studies looking at the lasting impact of the disease. Published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, the review looked at the frequency of symptoms among Covid “long-haulers”, the […]

lt’s painful, we’ve been abandoned since 2017 Dayo Johnson – Akure No fewer than 6000 ex-militants in both Ilaje and Ese-Odo Council areas in Ondo State have threatened to return to the creek following the failure of the Federal Government to absorb them into the Presidential Amnesty Programme after their disarmament in year 2017. The […]

Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, on Monday urged the party’s stakeholders to sheathe their swords and give room for peace to strengthen the party in the South-West.

A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, on Monday, maintained that many previous decisions of the apex court should be laid to rest and never followed.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, on Monday, congratulated the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on his 66th birth anniversary.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

ABUJA- THE Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has charged the 226 public tertiary institutions statutorily benefiting from its interventions to inculcate efficient service delivery to ensure Nigerian higher institutions compete favourably with the best in the world.

ONITSHA – Hon. Zeribe Chukwuma Ezeanuna, a governorship aspirant in Anambra state, under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed concern that Nigeria’s democracy is still stuck in military tradition perhaps because the late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, second republic Vice-President and PDP gubernatorial candidate in the 1999 presidential election was not allowed to emerge victorious and midwife the fourth republic.

A Sharia Court, sitting in Kano, on Monday remanded a 20-year-old man, Sani Mansir, in a Correctional Centre for alleged assault. Mansir, who lives at Karkasara Quarters, Kano is is facing charges for assaulting one Hajara Sha’aibu by causing bruises on her face. Mansir is facing a two-count charge of criminal force and assault. [ALSO […]

As in William Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies, Layi Babatude, exposes the capacity of man for untold evil in his newly released Dark Hearts.

  …says Gov’t not sincere about their plight By Ike Uchechukwu Magistrates in Cross River, Monday resumed protest over their 26 months unpaid salaries at the Governor’s office in Calabar. The magistrates who were 29 in number manned the entrance of the Government House, Calabar wielding different placards with various inscriptions such as “29 esquires […]

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The Kaduna State Government said no fewer than 19 persons have died in a road traffic crash on Kaduna-Abuja highway. A statement issued by Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, on Monday in Kaduna, indicated that 34 other passengers sustained injuries and were evacuated to hospital. Aruwan said, “Security agencies have […]

Reverend Jonathan Nicole, President Shippers Association of Lagos, says Nigeria loses over N800 billion monthly due to lack of 24-hour seaport operation. Nicole made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. NAN reports that in May 2017, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo signed an executive order directing […]