A Lagos Land grabber has warned two landowners to stay away from their properties or get killed. Narrating the event to newsmen, the Lawyer to the owners, Barrister Bridget Edokwe stated that on 23rd December 2020, while her clients were preparing for their Christmas celebrations, artisans working on their property somewhere near military Cantonment, […]

On Monday 28th of December 2020, Executive delegates of The West African Youth Council paid Dr. Freeman Osonuga a courtesy visit in his Lekki office and awarded him a Nelson Mandela Leadership Award for Excellence & Integrity and honored him as a West African Person of the Year 2020. West Africa Youth Council (WAYC) was […]

Nigeria on Monday recorded 1,204 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, taking the total number of infections to 91,351. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) made this known via its verified website. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  reports that Nigeria recorded 1,145 cases on Dec. 18, 2020. The centre also announced seven deaths in the last […]

By Chris Ochayi, Abuja The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff effective January 1, 2021. The new tariff hike regime is to paid by customers of the 11 electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs. This is coming just two months after the Commission forced implementation of the much-opposed […]

By Chris Ochayi The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has approved over 50 per cent hike in electricity tariff effective January 1, 2021. The new tarrif hike regime is to be paid by customers of the 11 electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs. This is coming just two months after the Commission forced implementation of much opposed […]

The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Kano State,  Mr Habu Ahmad, has tasked the 29 newly promoted officers in the Command to display high level of professionalism while carrying out their lawful duties. Ahmad stated this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Kano through the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna. […]

By Victor Ajihromanus Her fan base is global. Her words are etched in memories. We first knew her as a writer, then an award-winning writer. Then the list of awards became hard to keep up with because they got so many, she evolved into a constant record-breaker. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is not just a writer. […]

The Kano State Fire Service says 134 lives and property worth N635million were lost to fire incidents in the state from Jan.1 to Dec.31, 2020. Alhaji Saidu Muhammad, the Public Relations Officer of the Service said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Kano on Tuesday. Muhammad said that the service […]

Professor Wole Soyinka on Tuesday again gained the attention of the media for his criticism of President Muhammdu Buhari’s government. Here are twenty-one quotes from Professor Soyinka on President Buhari as reported by Vanguard over the years. 2015 1.  Buhari is ‘born again’ phenomenon -Soyinka Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka in 2015 described President Muhammadu […]

By Prince Okafor The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Archdiocese, Rev, Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins, has advised the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 to ensure that people continue observing the basic COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical Protocols, rather than contemplating another lockdown in 2021. The Archbishop disclosed this during his New Year message with the theme: ‘Be Courageous, Don’t Enter […]

…Police arrest baby’s father for connivance Dayo Johnson Akure An apprentice with a fashion designers shop in Ondo town, Ondo state Temitọpẹ Adeniyi has reportedly kidnapped a three month old baby girl. Reports had it that the apprentice was dating the father of the kidnapped baby, Wasiu Mamukuyomi. The mother of the missing baby, Mrs […]

By Obas Esiedesa The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved a minor review of electricity tariff for Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), increasing electricity cost for consumers under the franchise area. IBEDC franchise area includes Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Kwara and parts of Niger, Ekiti and Kogi states. NERC in an order (NERC/225/2020) signed by […]

The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), on Tuesday, urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to continue to stabilise the foreign exchange rates for economic growth. Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, ABCON President, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Gwadabe said that the association’s […]

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South A coalition of militants in Niger Delta has bombed the country home of a former militant leader in Bayelsa State, “General” Ogunbos, who they claimed abandoned his boys to suffer in the creeks and is living big in the city. The aggrieved militants under the auspices of Niger-Delta Cleansing […]

By Clifford Ndujihe IN spite of the announcement of a parallel election committee, the Ohanaeze 2021 general elections will begin today across the seven-Igbo speaking states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Delta, Imo and Rivers. According to the Chief Enwo Igariwey election committee raised by the Ime-Obi led by out-going President-General, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, […]