The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South East Zone, on Saturday, said they nominated Senator Samuel Anyanwu as their consensus candidate for the position of the National Secretary, ahead of the party’s convention because they wanted to sustain and reclaim the entire five states of the Zone for PDP.

With over 15 films (International and local) in her career, filmmaker Ololade Ebong continues to prove herself as one of contemporary cinema’s most empathetic and skilled chroniclers of Nigerian youth.

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Friday, signed into law the Ekiti State Assembly Service Commission (re-enactment) Bill 2021, Food Security Bill, the state criminal Bill 2021 and the Ekiti State victim charter law. Fayemi, in his remark, said the four new laws were geared toward enhancing good governance in the state. The governor explained […]

The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed; Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo; Founder of EbonyLife TV and EbonyLife Films, Mo Abudu; and the CEO of African Leadership Institute, South Africa, Jackie Chimhanzi, are among the growing number of influential personalities to have commended Adebola Williams on the launch of his new book, ’African Power Girls’.

Ahead of today’s State Congress for the Imo State All Progressives Congress, APC, the party has appeared to toe the line of electing its state Executives through a consensus arrangement.

Ekiti Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has assured that preparations for the 2022 gubernatorial election in the state will not affect projects execution and other areas of service delivery by his administration. Fayemi also admonished all political parties and their followers to eschew violence by playing the game according to the rules. He said that no […]

The national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced suspension of the ongoing State Congress in Oyo State due to forging of documents meant for the exercise and other irregularities. Governor of Yobe State and Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Hon Mai Mala Buni, gave the order. In a statement signed by […]

In order to re-orient boys and men on issues bordering on gender-based violence, a boy-child transformation movement, Boys Quarters Africa is collaborating with the Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency on the ‘Project Sabi Initiative’.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has given reasons why he created three metropolitan authorities outside the conventional local government administration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the announcement of Kaduna, Zaria and Kafanchan metropolitan authorities by the governor had generated varied reactions, with some residents condemning the action. El-Rufai gave the explanation […]

Founder of KenMoore Fashion, Ogbonna Kelvin Chukwuma, has said that the brand was not established by accident, but it came up through a divinely inspired vision that gave birth to it.  Chukwuma revealed in an interview with newsmen that his sojourn in the fashion world was divine as he was inspired by the exhibitions and trade […]

THE Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Friday, disclosed that over 4 million Nigerians hunger and suffer from malnutrition in Nigeria.

ria joins rest of the world to commemorate 2021 Global Handwashing Day, the Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, Friday, said handwashing remains panacea to menace of deadly communicable disease in the country.

By Boluwaji Obahopo, LOKOJA Early morning infernor destroyed property worth millions of Naira at the Itobe Market, in Ofu Local Government area of Kogi State on Saturday. According to an eye witness, the fire disaster started when a trader’s generator set caught fire thereby engulfing all shops within the vicinity and destroying them. Although no […]

Kogi State Government on Friday demanded an apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged “embarrassment” of dragging it to court over N20 billion bailout fund. The Commissioner for Information in Kogi, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, stated the government’s position at the presentation of awards to senior journalists who participated in the […]

A coalition of women groups from different communities in Sokoto State on Friday appealed for more political spaces and recognitions in the state. Leader of the coalition, Malama Sha’afatu Umar, made the call during a rally to mark the International Day for Rural Women, organised by Sokoto State Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in […]