National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has dragged former Edo state Commissioner for Information, Prince Kassim Afegbua before a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court Abuja, demanding a N5 billion compensation for an alleged libelous publication against him.

The 2021 Afrikanwatch Network Communications’ lecture and the award will hold on August 21 in Lagos and will be chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, titled 2023: The kind of leaders Nigeria need, our Collective responsibility.

By Haruna Aliyu, Birnin-Kebbi As part of the effort of the Kebbi State Government to improve healthcare delivery at the grassroots level, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has approved the renovation of 36 Primary Healthcare Centers across the state. This was announced by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Jafar Muhammad in Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. He […]

The National Commission for Nomadic Education, NCNE has embarked on training its staff to improve their service delivery in order to eradicate illiteracy among the nomads.

“I don’t take drugs if the team doctor didn’t prescribe for me. I had pains when we were preparing for the game & I took pain killers prescribed by the team doctor.”

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has assured that the state will soon attain its position as the heart of cocoa production in the country.

By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as appalling President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025, “when the meeting is scheduled to be virtual.” This is even as the party condemned the Presidency “for trying to hide his […]

The world has gone through a once in a generation systemic shock that has upended and confounded what our sense of normality is.

Nigeria’s real estate sector has not remained the same since the advent of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Following the impact of the pandemic on Nigeria’s real estate sub-sector, the sector has remained largely under-performed.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja The Nigerian Law School, on Tuesday, revealed that 618 intending lawyers that sat for the December 2020 Bar final examinations, failed.  The Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Professor Isah Chiroma, made the disclosure after he presented a total of 880 successful candidates that were confirmed as lawyers during day-one […]

Elder Statesman and first Republic Aviation Minister Chief Mabazulike Amechi, on Tuesday, announced the passing of his wife Iyom Chinelo Priscella Amechi.

By Gabriel Olawale The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has announced that 526  persons have died from cholera even as 22,130 suspected cases of the disease were recorded in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, since the beginning of the cholera outbreak in 2021. The agency also revealed that 28 per cent […]

Continuing he said; ” If I’m to say the truth the Sports Minister has done very well. I have played at the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, and Africa Games. During his time, no Minister in the past has done what he’s doing. I feel disappointed”, Quadri said.

He however noted that “I don’t know if the person is an okada rider or not because nobody has actually come up with the identity of the person.”

Transforming Africa’s food system is an obvious task requiring the active mobilization and prioritization of both public and private investments, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN