The Ministry of Transportation has urged the public to disregard a publication that said its Minister, Rotimi Amaechi asked Nigerians to contribute for treatment of victims of the recent Abuja-Kaduna train attack. The Director of Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Mr Eric Ojiekwe, said this in a statement on Thursday. According to Ojiekwe, […]

Urges workers, others to wear Black Hand bands to protest high insecurity By Victor Ahiuma-Young Abuja: The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on the Federal Government must fish out the killers of two of its and other Nigerians in the  Monday evening terrorists’ attack on the Abuja-Kaduna Train service, warning that the […]

Cabinet members and allies of Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari and their teeming supporters seized the opportunity of the official campaign flag-off for the 11 April 2022 local government election in the state to show their interest in succeeding him as the next Governor of the state come 2023.

As resumption of tolling commences at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge and the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos tomorrow, residents of Lekki Phase 1, have called for calm in the area even as they have written the state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to shelve any plan to resume the tolling.

A House of Representatives aspirant for Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency in the 2023 general election, Chief Morris Mbam and second son of the former Secretary to Ebonyi State Government, SSG, late Chief Fidelis Mbam, Thursday came heavily on the current Senator representing Ebonyi North zone at the National Assembly, Dr Sam Egwu, for seeking to go back to the Senate for the third time.

Dr Jeff Nnamani who hails from Agbani in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State is in the race for the State’s 2023 Governorship Election as an aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

Mr Frank Nweke Jnr, onetime Minister of Information, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Enugu State. Nweke  was unveiled officially on Thursday at the party secretariat in Enugu. Nweke was the Minister of Information and Communication during the second tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo, from  2003 […]

*To begin tracking of antimalaria, anti-HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis medicines *Assures that Nigeria ‘ll get WHO’s maturity level 4 status in a year By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has said Nigeria has 13 to 15 percent of fake medicines contrary to claims in some quarters that the […]

. By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, ABUJA PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday called for an end to the murders, kidnappings and sexual assault by rival cult groups against their opponents which have spiralled particularly in Ogun State. The President according to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, was reacting […]

By Victor Ecoma ALLOW me space to respond to the interview granted Prof. Ango Abdullahi in your newspaper of February 28, 2022 page 13. I find the interview intriguing and wish to observe as follows: The unity of Nigeria, progress, size, diversity, human and material resources are assets to all of us Nigerians, whether Hausa, […]