The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, visited the ailing veteran Nollywood actor Mr. Zack Orji at the National Hospital in Abuja. Accompanying her were notable dignitaries, including Hajia Nana Shettima, the wife of the Vice President; Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development; Mrs Rachael Umahi, the wife of the Minister for…
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president before the chief justice on Friday, following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, according to the prime minister’s office. Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said he has received the resignation letter of the president, and from this point forth the president has…
The vacation judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja Justice Ahmed Mohammed on Wednesday declined to grant an interim order stopping the Imo State government from demolishing marked houses belonging to the former governor, Rochas Okorocha in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Justice Mohammed refused Okorocha pleading through his lawyer, Chief Oba Maduabuchi (SAN)…
…as Bayelsa govt studies Enugu’s giant strides in sector Stakeholders have commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for making the state a reference point in public service reforms in the country. The commendation came on the heels of the recent visit to Enugu State by a delegation of Bayelsa State Government led by the…
Erdogan called on the West to agree to Russia’s terms on the grain deal as hunger threatens Europe. By Dinara Khalilova Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on July 14 that he and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin were “of the same mind” on the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Turkish state-run – Anadolu…
…As varsity staff, Gburus Committee for Senate, back governor, Barr. Mbah, PDP for 2023 The leadership of the Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on Wednesday visited Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State at the Government House, Enugu, to appreciate him for his administration’s giant strides in the education sector in…
The investiture ceremony of Prof Udenta O. Udenta, as a distinguished Fellow of Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Africanist Scholar and Preeminent Public Intellectual of high repute, and as a Fellow of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), took place at the Chinua Achebe International Conference Centre, Mamman Vatsa Writers Village, Mpape Abuja…
The Supreme Court has set aside its earlier ruling which dismissed Guaranty Trust Bank’s (GTB) appeal against a N2.4 billion judgment in favour of Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited. The apex court set aside its own decision on Friday, while delivering judgment in an application by GTB seeking the re-listing of the appeal on the grounds…
Islamic Scholar Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has revealed that the Fulani herdsmen, he is negotiating with told him, they are in war with other ethnics in Nigeria. Sheikh Gumi, who has been leading many negotiation between bandits and state governments, maintained that amnesty, should be granted to the bandits, stating, that it was…
Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong has distanced himself from a group which staged a protest demanding that he turns down the job of Director General of the Tinubu/Shettima campaign organization. Lalong, who visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday to show his appreciation for the approval of the University of Jos as a national cancer centre, told State…
