Late Omo Oba Adediji Adedoyin was born on 21st December, 1932 to late Oba William Adedoyin the late Akarigbo of Remoland from the Anoko Ruling House and to Late Olori Folorunso Adedoyin nee Sode from the Liyangu Ruling House of Sagamu in Ogun State.

By Peter Duru COMMISSIONER for Justice and Attorney General of Benue State, Mr. Micheal Gusa, yesterday, said the state government was not served the process that led to the freezing of its bank accounts by an Abuja High Court. The court presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo had, Wednesday, in an ex-parte motion brought by […]

ByFemi Bolaji SUCCOUR has finally come the way of Taraba State in the form of shelter, farming tools and medications nearly 12 years after the destruction of communities and their means of livelihood by Boko Haram terrorists which ravaged the region since 2009. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, no fewer than two million inhabitants […]

By Haruna Aliyu, Bernin Kebbi & David Odama RISING domestic gas prices have forced poor families in Kebbi and Nasarawa states to resort to the use of charcoal, which may add to the depletion of the forests and heighten climate change crisis. The sudden price jerk has seen gas price rising beyond reach. For example, […]

Given the global climate crisis, in 1992 governments created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC COP

By Wole Mosadomi He is a happy man today, smiling all overthe place that houses his tailoring shop in Minna, Niger State. He has many reasons to be happy: He is a proud owner of a business that employs other Nigerians and his products are making waves across the country and adding value to his […]

My first intervention some months back on the war against hard drugs use in the country was under the headline ‘Buba Marwa and the Bad Guys.’ And here I come again today, armed with facts on how the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has suddenly come alive under its Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa, and is giving a bloody nose to traffickers, peddlers and users of narcotic substances in the country.

By Yinka Kolawole The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has called on the Nigerian government to take more decisive actions aimed at turning the nation’s demographic asset into economic development. Adesina made the remark yesterday in a keynote address at the 21st  NECCIPR Roundtable in Lagos, with the theme, “Social Media, […]

By Mohsin Tutla March 21st 2020 was the day when the Islamic Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar witnessed the suspension of the Umrah pilgrimage. An entire generation accustomed to the knowledge that at any given point of time, Muslim’s are performing “Tawaf” around the “Kaabah” were left heartbroken. Unimaginable scenes of a clear white marble […]

Pope Francis is due to receive the U.S. President, Joe Biden, who is only the second Catholic head of state in the history of the U.S