Ivory Coast Government seeks end to violence ahead of October Election Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s government has reached out to his main opponents and religious leaders to intervene and ease tensions following his decision to bid for a third term in October’s election. The world’s top cocoa-producing nation has seen a spate of violent…
A Chinese envoy to Nigeria, Li Xuda, has advised the Federal Government to focus more on developing the creative industry to fortify Nigeria’s economy. Xuda, the Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, gave the advice at a zoom meeting organised by the National Council for Arts and Culture in Lagos recently….
1. I can’t sleep because I know what to do! I have gone round the 36 States of the country like I have gone round 31 countries of the world, I know the problems of Nigeria and I know I can fix them easily! Because I can see them, I can fix them!*– Peter Obi*…
Dikko Abdullahi Inde, who died in an Abuja hospital on Thursday evening after a brief illness, did not have a happy retirement since he left the Nigeria Customs Service in August 2015, six years before he clocked the mandatory retirement age. Anti-corruption agencies charged him to court for alleged offences, and he was subjected to a…
The convoy of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday was involved in a road accident in Abuja.The development was confirmed in a statement released by the media aide to the Governor, Terver Akase. According to Akase, no life was lost in the incident that happened in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He…
~By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Onuorah Ndubuisi Godwin and Ifeanyi Arthur Edeh ~ The Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi Leadership Round-Table/Interactive Session with Critical Stakeholders of 17-LGAs towards the sustenance of Peace in Enugu state, held on Thursday 22nd of July, 2021 at Agbani among critical stakeholders in Nkanu East and Nkanu West local government areas of the state….
IT Development: Site Zonal Office in Enugu, Gov. Ugwuanyi tells NITDA …As state govt partners agency on IT training of physically-challenged youths Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has urged the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to consider siting its South East Zonal Office in Enugu, in view of the state’s background as the…
In the spirit of Eid-Kabir celebration, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has released 136 inmates from Kano Correctional Centres. He also provided to them N5000 each as transport fires back to their homes. While effecting their release from detentions, Governor Ganduje, urged them to be people of sound character when they are finally…
Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 25 presidential election, has dug up assertions of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwola on a case related to Mohammed Abacha to show why President Bola Tinubu should never have been allowed to contest the election. According to Atiku, Tinubu…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar of attempting to deceive both Christians and Muslims. In a statement on Saturday by his Media Office signed by Tunde Rahman, Tinubu said Atiku has no business raising the issue of a Muslim-Muslim ticket except as…
