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 ...
Read More »43 ministers too much, Imo NLC boss tells President Buhari, urges pay cut for federal lawmakers
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Imo State chapter, Austin Chilakpu, has described as “too much” the appointment of 43 ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari. He therefore urged the president to merge the ministries to save cost of governance ...
Read More »Experts explain why medical quackery persists in Nigeria
Head, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu State, Dr. James Akpeh, has said that failure to prosecute medical quacks fuels the dangerous practice throughout the country. Speaking on ‘The Menace of Quackery and the Contemporary Medical ...
Read More »Group sues FG, Joint Military Task Force over black soot in Rivers State
A civil society group, the Extra Step Initiative (ESI) has sued the Federal Government and the Joint Military Task Force (Operation Delta Safe) for the continuous pollution of the environment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The group, which launched Stop ...
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