Family of a police officer, who was killed by soldiers of the 93 Battalion in Taraba State, has demanded justice over the gruesome murder of their son, Inspector Mark Edaile. His immediate elder brother, Andrew Edaile, who made the plea ...
Read More »UNIC, group seek inclusion of youths in policy formulation, education marshals to curb street hawking
Country Director, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, Roland Kayanja, has advocated the development of youth-centred policies to ensure their participation in the formulation and implementation of government’s policies. This, Kayanja said, will tackle youth restiveness, unemployment and enhance the ...
Read More »President Buhari pledges more investment in infrastructure
President Muhammadu Buhari promised that his administration would invest more in infrastructure, expressing happiness over the positive results of previous spending. Buhari, who was speaking during the commissioning of the reconstructed Shinkafi-Yandaki-Gafiya-Abdallawa-Dankaba road in Katsina State, noted that “infrastructure is ...
Read More »Buhari gives lifeline to condemned criminals, approves renaming Nigerian Prisons Service, Makurdi varsity
Criminals awaiting execution may have received a lifeline following President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to a new law. The approval came three months after the dissolution of the Eighth National Assembly, which passed the bill. The new legislation, known as Nigerian ...
Read More »Ohanaeze accuses Tinubu of plotting to scuttle Igbo quest for 2023 presidency
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has accused All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of plotting against the 2023 presidential bid of the South East and vowed to resist the move. In a statement yesterday by its ...
Read More »Facebook introduces Yoruba, Igbo, Swahili languages to check fake news, others
Social media platform, Facebook, in partnership with Africa Check, has added a new local language support for several African languages to fortify its third party fact-checking programme. The initiative helps to assess the accuracy of news on the platform, thereby ...
Read More »Tricycle Rider Killed Over Right Of Way.
The Spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command DSP Bala Elkana Said: “On August 11, at about 2130hours, Surulere Police Station received a distress call from Randle Hospital Suru -Lere, that Aniete Bassay, a Tricycle Operator was brought to the ...
Read More »Bayelsa Governor Dickson swears in new council chairmen
Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson will today swear in the newly elected chairmen of the state’s eight councils. The chairmen emerged from last Saturday’s poll conducted by the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC). His Special Adviser on Public ...
Read More »Oyo government under me will not marginalise any zone, Makinde pledges
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has promised that his government will not marginalise any zone in the state. Speaking in Ogbomoso during his Sallah visit to Oyo North senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, ...
Read More »S’South group laments Jonathan’s loss in 2015 elections, seeks apologies from adversaries
Considering the inability of the present government to arrest threatening national challenges, South-South Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has described as unfortunate the booting of former President Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Villa in 2015. Chairman of the forum, Dr. Preye ...
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