A Nigerian lady who died while in prison at Ivory Coast, Itunu Babalola has been buried in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. It was gathered that the corpse arrived in Nigeria through Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja Lagos on Friday. Our correspondent gathered that the Nigerian was wrongly jailed in Ivory Coast. She later…
June 3rd 2018, Prof. Joseph Eberendu Ahaneku, Fellow Academy of Science , marked four years of piloting the affairs of NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK) as the 5th substantive Vice-Chancellor. Prof. Ahaneku assumed office on June 3rd, 2014 after emerging tops in the keenly contested post. A native of Nnarambia Ahiara Mbaise in Ahiazu-Mbaise Local Government…
Until June 6, 2018 when the President Buhari-led administration declared June 12 as the new Democracy Day, Nigeria commemorated the restoration of Democracy on the 29th of May, every year. That day celebrates the solemn and remarkable rebirth of our participatory leadership, to honour the courageous heroes who altruistically championed and chaperoned the noble course…
Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau has been sworn in as the new President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Maikyau’s emergence came following the expiration of the Olumide Akpata-led administration. The legal practitioner had won the election for the position earlier in July when he polled 38,000 electoral votes to become the 31st President…
Former Presidents Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and six other former West African leaders on Thursday joined forces to establish a mechanism targeted at preventing and resolving election related conflicts and maintaining stability in the sub-region. The leaders resolved to collectively exert their enormous goodwill towards ensuring peace in West African nations, by…
First of all I want to start by saying that Enugu’s place in the nation’s education ranking is not one which any right-thinking state administration would love to toy with. Over the years, this position has made her an envy of not a few. In the light of that, LEADERSHIP Scorecard takes a look…
Dangote Group’s fertilizer plant, now under construction in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos, will be ready to start production late this year. Dangote Group’s fertilizer plant, now under construction in Nigeria’s biggest city of Lagos, will be ready to start production late this year, according to Saipem SpA, the builders. Owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s…
Former Secretary General of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani has chided the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu for picking former Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima as his running mate in the 2023 general election. Sani premised his position on what he called the religious sensitivity of Nigerians at…
…Says INEC overreaching mandate The Campaign Council of the Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disagreed with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on its decision to suspend the announcement of the final results and declaration of Dr. Peter Mbah as the winner of the Enugu State governorship contest, stressing that…
By Zayd Ibn Isah “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.” For over a century, the above popular quote was wrongly credited to the iconic…
