WTO DG, Nigeria’s Dr Okonjo-Iweala, takes office, to hit the ground running
Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Monday assumed office as the helms person at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) amid hopes of...
Group to Buhari: You called for Jonathan’s resignation but you were not arrested and detained
The arrest of the media aide to the Kano State Governor, Alhaji Salisu Tanko-Yakasai by men of the Department of State Services...
Breaking: Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines March 2 — PTF Chair, Mustapha
Barring any last-minute hitch, Nigeria’s allocation of 4 million doses of the COVAX vaccine will arrive on March 2, according to the...
No petrol price increase in March for now, says NNPC
Contrary to speculations of imminent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
Itsey Sagay: When Selfish Agenda Thrashes National Interest
By Phillip Ashaka There is certainly a connection between Prof, Itsey Sagay, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC)...
BREAKING: 317 kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls breathe air of freedom
The 317 girls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, may have been released, Persecondnews learnt. The schoolgirls were on Sunday...
Child hostage taking: Soyinka blasts Buhari, says your government has failed
Outraged by the latest abduction of hundreds of school girls in Zamfara State, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday concluded that...
Petrol: Deregulation reversal will lead to scarcity of product, CSOs tell FG
A Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society Organizations for Petroleum and Energy Security (CONCSOPES), has called for the sustenance of deregulation of the...
Ganduje’s Media Aide, Yakasai, given the boot for criticising Buhari
The Special Adviser on Media to the Governor of Kano State, Mr Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has been sacked for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
42 Kagara abductees including 27 students regain freedom, Pres. Buhari lauds their release
At last after days of speculation about their release, the 27 abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State...
Disquiet in Ibadan as Army, DSS, Police attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho
By Boye Ajayi Anxiety and fear pervaded parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Friday following an attempt by a...
FG to CBN, SEC: Regulate Cryptocurrency, don’t prohibit
“So it should be thoughtful and knowledge-based regulation not prohibition. The point I am making is that some of the exciting developments...
SERAP wants UN Security Council to treat students’ abductions in Nigeria as a breach of UN Charter
Indignant about spate of kidnappings in the country particularly abductions of students, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the...
Tension heightens as another 300 school girls abducted In Zamfara
By Boye Ajayi Barely two weeks after some Kagara students were kidnapped in Niger State, gunmen on Friday abducted about 300 school...
Nigeria to receive first batch of COVID-19 vaccine in few days, says FG
By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government is mobilizing...
Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution is a scam being operated by a failed state, says Edwin Clark
Ijaw National leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has described Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution as a scam being operated by a failed state. The erstwhile...
