Nigeria

BREAKING — Obaseki: Chief of Staff presides over meeting with APC NWC in Aso Rock

    Following Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s disqualification crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) both in Edo State and the party’s headquarters in Abuja,...

Rise In Rape Crimes: Buhari meets with IGP, Information and Women Affairs Ministers’

    The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Paullen Tallen and Minister of information Alhaji Lai...

Non-payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance, 26 resident doctors’ sack, others trigger doctors strike

  Citing the Federal Government’s inability to meet its demands, doctors in federal and state health facilities have declared a nationwide indefinite strike. The doctors...

NNPC’s Health Sector Intervention: Straightening the Issues

  By Babagana Haliru Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) rallied its...

ln Ibadan, another student raped, stabbed fatally, the third in two weeks 

    Barely two weeks after, prowling rapists have again struck in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, killing another female student, 21-year-old Grace...

Buhari gets SERAP’s seven-day ultimatum to publish looters of N800bn, spending 

  Again, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has challenged the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to publish within seven days a comprehensive list of...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala vows to be a peacemaker in US-China trade war if elected WTO DG

    Nigeria’s nominee for the World Trade Organization(WTO) director general, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says she’ll play the role of peacemaker in the trade...

More than 500 new COVID-19 cases, 8 additional deaths in Nigeria

    On Saturday, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC) announced 501 new COVID-19 cases and 8 additional deaths. In total, there...

Hail of gunfire at Presidential Villa, Abuja in a face-off between aides of Pres. Buhari and wife

  A rumble of gunfire caused a scare at Nigeria’s seat of power — the Presidential Villa – as the aides of President...

Adesina’s  AfDB trials: a proxy war?

By Olukayode Oyeleye   SO MUCH FOR THE African Development Bank (AfDB) headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. The multilateral development bank has been...

Buhari to Osinbajo: Consider your committee’s report implementation done

    President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the Osinbajo led-Economic Sustainability Committee, saying he has accepted it as a “National Plan”.  ...

June 12: Abiola’s family patriarch to Buhari: Recognize him as ex-President 

  Twenty-two years after the annulment of his electoral mandate, Chief MKO Abiola’s family has demanded the de-annulment of the June 12 Presidential...

Buhari, on Democracy Day, lauds media as effective watchdog, promises free speech

  lists strings of sectoral achievements President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday chronicled his administration’s legion achievements in the nation’s tottering democratic journey with...

Abuja DISCO, AQUIVIS introduce smart high-tension fault detector

AEDC and Aquivis Technologies Limited, a leading company in Africa’s energy sector, have announced the successful deployment of a smart high-tension overhead line...

Implement Presidential Economic Sustainability Committee’s report, Osinbajo urges Pres. Buhari

The Vice-President and Chairman of the Presidential Economic Sustainability Committee, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the report of...

FG flatly rules out another lockdown despite increase in new cases of coronavirus

  The Federal Government has  flatly ruled out another economic lockdown despite the spike in cases of coronavirus infections in the country. ”...