Herdsmen: Tanker drivers block Benin-Ore highway over colleagues’ killing
The Benin-Ore highway was, yesterday, taken over by drivers of petroleum tankers and other articulated vehicles at Ofosu, near Benin-City over the killing of two drivers by suspected herdsmen, Tuesday night. The hoodlums were said to have also made away with an undisclosed amount of money stolen from their victims. The angry drivers, who blocked […]
Nigeria seeks global action to combat emerging drug trafficking threats — Marwa
Chairman, NDLEA, says urgent strengthening of regional and international cooperation is needed to identify and manage emerging new jurisdictional manifestations of drug trafficking
USSD CODE, CBN, Banks, Telcos and the coming of anarchy
By Okoh Aihe I DO not like the word, anarchy. The word serves a full dose of what is happening in our land, a chaotic state of disorderliness where nobody seems to be in charge, where everybody seems to smell imminent perdition and yet unable to do something about it. Where students disappear at school […]
Nigeria the beautiful
By Rotimi Fasan NIGERIA, the beautiful land richly blessed and endowed with human and material resources, will survive. But right now, the country is in the hands of her wicked children who are determined to take from her all the riches and goodness she possesses. Nigeria is like a nursing mother being violently suckled by […]
Chinese vaccines reach Congo as polls approach
The Republic of the Congo took delivery Wednesday of 100,000 doses of Chinese-made coronavirus vaccines, 10 days before a presidential vote in the country heavily indebted to Beijing. Donated Sinopharm vaccines “prove that China remains alongside developing countries to fight Covid-19 together,” Chinese ambassador Ma Fulin told reporters at the airport in capital Brazzaville. Oil-producing […]
UNICEF chief says $1bn more needed for COVAX COVID-19 vaccine rollout
The UNICEF on Wednesday urged countries to contribute more money to help poor countries to access Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, saying around $1 billion was needed.
