By Victoria Ojeme The Canadian government has pledged to support Nigeria’s north east, homeland of Boko Haram insurgency, with $26.95m to tackled ongoing food, malnutrition and associated health crisis in the region this year. Canada is also providing $5.5 million to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to help conflict and pandemic-affected households in the […]

The Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Elijah Juma Wada who was kidnapped by Boko Haram last month has regained his freedom

SEVERAL credible mainstream media houses have been warning of the havoc that Olusegun Odebunmi’s Nigerian Press Council, NPC, and National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, amendment Bills will wreak on the media industry and our constitutional democracy if they sail through. He will succeed in achieving the total subjugation of the highly reputed vibrant and independent Nigerian […]

The European Union on Monday extended economic sanctions on Russia for its role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine for another six months. The sanctions were first adopted in July 2014 in response to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its support for pro-Moscow separatists in the country’s east. The restrictive measures have been […]

… Give Starter Packs, Takeoff Support to 331 ICT Trainees in Taraba …. Targets 2400 Youths in Taraba, Adamawa, Gombe, Others …. Partners Taraba, Commissions Molecular Laboratory/ Infectious Disease Centre By Femi Bolaji The North East Development Commission, NEDC, has said the federal government of Nigeria is gradually turning the six states of the North […]

In a bid to promote and maintain standard agricultural products, the Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, Tuesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Agricultural Produce Sellers Association of Nigeria, APSAN.

Two brothers were on Saturday evening crushed to death after their motorcycle slide under a moving truck.

CSR-in-Action Advocacy, the charitable expression of one of sub-Saharan Africa’s foremost sustainability advocacy and consulting outfit, CSR-in-Action Group, has empowered rural women in the Badagry area of Lagos to tackle gender-based violence (GBV), women exclusion and other pertinent social challenges facing them via a recent workshop themed Inclusive Communities, Empowered Women, which held recently at […]

By Ayo Onikoyi, Actor Yomi Fabiyi’s controversial new movie ‘Oko Iyabo’, has sparked an outrage from members of the public. The movie according to social media users, is based on Baba Ijesha’s rape saga with real names of those involved in the case. Also it was reportedly made to look like the minor was in […]

Africa’s leading streaming platform, Boomplay and telecommunications giant leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, have signed announced a strategic partnership that will offer subscribers access to affordable streaming on Boomplay. The Airtel-Boomplay partnership rides on the Airtel Streaming Data Plan and will give music lovers the opportunity to save more on streaming data cost, as […]