Concerns have been raised over deaths of illegal migrants of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) in the Mediterranean Sea owing largely to the high unemployment rate among member-states. To tackle the problem, a Session of the ECOWAS ...
Read More »Group tasks governments on appointment of women in key sectors of economy
Partners West Africa, Nigeria (PWAN) has tasked government at all levels to ensure that women are appointed into key sectors of the economy. As the inauguration of the Ninth National Assembly approaches, it also canvassed leadership positions for female legislators. ...
Read More »Okorocha replies Udenwa over attack, calls him worst Imo governor
Governor Rochas Okorocha has expressed disgust over continued attack on him by a former governor of the state, Achike Udenwa, saying he (Udenwa) was the worst governor Imo State ever had. In a statement issued yesterday by his Chief Press ...
Read More »Okorocha replies Udenwa over attack, calls him worst Imo governor
Governor Rochas Okorocha has expressed disgust over continued attack on him by a former governor of the state, Achike Udenwa, saying he (Udenwa) was the worst governor Imo State ever had. In a statement issued yesterday by his Chief Press ...
Read More »Rights group cautions Malami against interfering in alleged diversion of N2.5 billion
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has cautioned Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, against interfering in the prosecution of Director General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu. It accused the Federal ...
Read More »Police arrest four suspected cultists in Rivers State
The Rivers State Police Command have arrested four cult kingpins suspected to have been the brains behind the incessant cult wars in Rumuolumeni Community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, Nnamdi ...
Read More »Ogun police arrest 25 suspects over burning of deputy speaker’s office, declare inspector missing
Twenty-four hours after hoodlums set Ogun State House of Assembly Deputy Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo’s campaign office and his five buses ablaze at Ifo Local Government Area, the state police command has declared a Police Inspector missing. The Command Spokesman, Abimbola ...
Read More »Saraki urges Tinubu to substantiate claims on budgets padding, delay
‘Failure to impose N’Assembly leadership responsible for outbursts’ Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki has refuted reports credited to National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu on padding and delay of national budgets. In a statement issued yesterday ...
Read More »Killing at Ladol was deliberate, Samsung insists, alleges falsification of reports
Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria (SHIN) has declared that the killing of a Korean and a Nigerian by an unknown gunman at LADOL Free Zone was deliberate and not accidental discharge, as managers of the zone claimed. Its Managing Director, Jejin ...
Read More »ECOWAS, UNHCR move to protect refugees, asylum seekers, others in West Africa
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have expressed the need to foster mixed population flows in West Africa to ensure the protection of refugees, asylum seekers and other persons ...
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