By Godfrey Bivbere & Christiana Moneke Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the President on Public Sector Matters and Secretary, National Action Committee (NAC) on African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Francis Anatogu, has stressed that Nigeria can benefit from AfCFTA by focusing on the $10 million export potentials. Anatogu, who disclosed this in Lagos while […]

•Modu Sheriff denounces presidential campaign posters •After losing PDP ticket, Ekweremadu visits Adamu By Omeiza Ajayi, Abuja A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has petitioned the Odigie-Oyegun committee seeking the disqualification of Bola Tinubu. In the petition dated May 17, the petitioner with membership registration no KN/TRN/38/08417, urged the committee to painstakingly  scrutinise […]

•Says it gave Nigeria $6.8bn in 2 years •Urges quick actions on revenue By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The International  Monetary Fund, IMF, said yesterday that Nigeria’s subsidy bill would hit N6 trillion by end of this year. IMF also disclosed that it had given Nigeria $6. 8 billion facilities between 2020, in the […]

By Godwin Oritse DIRECTOR General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, (NIMASA) Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has said that the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, ISPS, is a major component of the security architecture being carried out by the agency in the Nigerian maritime space. Speaking while receiving the […]

*How Northern power-brokers secured victory for Atiku *Ohanaeze denies rejecting Atiku, says group yet to take a position *Atiku’s emergence as PDP candidate divine — Diaspora group By Soni Daniel, Clifford Ndujihe, Festus Ahon, Levinus Nwabuighiogu, John Alechenu, Peter Duru & Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo Rivers State governor and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples […]

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – FIFTY-SEVEN-year-old farmer, Izete Jeremiah, shot in the mouth by gun-totting criminals masquerading as herdsmen at Odiguete village, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State on April 7, can no longer speak with his mouth and he eats through the aid of a pipe at the University of Benin […]

By Obas Esiedesa NIGERIA’s oil production in April 2022 averaged 1.354 million barrels per day, mbpd, about 78 percent of the 1.735 mbpd quota allocated to it by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. In its latest report to the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC, meeting in May, the NNPC said total oil lifted […]

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo, KADUNA One of those kidnapped by terrorists, who attacked the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna train, who said she was a classmate of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Law School, has sent out an appeal, saying they were sick and her son a sickle cell patient (sickler). Another, Sadiq Ango Abdullahi, son of the Chairman […]

With an inefficient and weak supply chain system, pharmaceutical experts have urged the government at all levels to show strong commitment and political will towards securing Nigeria’s pharma industry as well as accelerate all the initiatives designed to close the gaps that COVID-19 exposed in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chains, PSCs.

In the spirit of Africa Day, the US-based Nigerian music artist Jaajo, has released a seven-track Extended Play (EP) to the delight of his fans and other music enthusiasts around the world. Titled ‘Afrolypso’, the seven-track EP was produced to serenade Africans and those in Black communities on a global scale. The songs are -‘Lovu […]

By Dakuku Peterside THE political evolution of party systems in the world follows a binary trajectory. We see this political evolutionary trend in most democracies where although multiple parties exist, two dominant parties emerge, dominate the political space, and compete as alternate power wielders that form governments as government and opposition at the centre. Advanced […]

By Ezra Ukanwa, ABUJA AS part of its contribution to address insecurity in Nigeria, the United Nations, UN, yesterday charged Nigerian leaders to intensify their approach towards taming insecurity in the country. This is even as the UN advocated that one of the best approaches to address issues bordering insecurity in Nigeria was to adopt […]

A Presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic (PDP), Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has congratulated the winner of the party’s presidential election, Alhaji’ Atiku Abubakar and assured him and the party of his continued support and collaboration to actualize his five points agenda for Nigerians.

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo A receptionist on duty at the Hilton Hotel Honours, Ile-Ife, Osun state, on the day Timothy Adegoke, the OAU’s postgraduate student checked into the hotel, Adesola Adedeji, yesterday, told Chief Justice Adepele Ojo of Osun High Court that a CCTV monitor in the reception was removed before she resumed duty the […]

The Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, Tuesday, raised concern over threats to sustainability of water resources in the country