Thursday, 19 December, 2024

Month: August 2020


Agriculture no doubt, plays a crucial role in the economy ofdeveloping countries, providing the main source of food income andemployment to rural population. The Special Adviser to Governor Obiano on Farm Implements andMechanization, Sir Paul Nwosu while congratulating Ndi Anambra Read more…


By Sam Omatseye The problem with the hoopla over the Chinese loans is that lawyers think it is about law. But as they are thinking it is about law, it becomes about sovereignty. While mulling it as sovereignty, they mistake Read more…


PAN-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has backed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that international oil companies, IOCs, operating in Niger Delta should stop using insecurity to justify non-relocation of their operational headquarters to the oil region, rubbishing the stand of Read more…


Tel Aviv is in talks with “many” Arab nations that are “in line” to establish relations with Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed in the wake of the UAE having ended its economic boycott of the Jewish state. “There are Read more…


The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has raised the alarm over the ongoing arming and movement of thugs by politicians in preparation for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. The polls are scheduled to hold on September 19 Read more…


A coalition of ex-agitators has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment of Col. Milland Dikio (rtd) as Interim Administrator of Amnesty Programme. A statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Mr Kingsley Muturu, Chairman, Amnesty Phase II, Delta Chapter, Read more…


Some education stakeholders in Lagos have lauded the state government on planned reopening of schools in an effort to gradually ease the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The stakeholders made the commendation in interviews with the News Agency of Read more…


The Federal Government on Sunday reopened Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, runway to flight operations. The Minister of Aviation Sen. Hadi Sirika, during the official opening ceremony in Enugu, said that domestic flight would start immediately while the international flight Read more…


Following the riot act read by the Federal Government to hostility towards Nigerians in Ghana, the Ghanaian authorities has extended the olive branch, promising commitment to warm relations with Nigeria.In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ghanaian authority said it Read more…


The Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has described All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a living legend in Yorubaland and a modern-day Chief Obafemi Awolowo for the people of South-West Nigeria. The monarch, therefore, Read more…


THE crisis rocking the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is not going away any time soon. Apart from the formation of a  splinter group in the North, the South West NBA with the highest number of lawyers has also not abandoned Read more…


…Says “we have very weak set of governors   in Southeast” Foremost nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, has expressed fears over the increasing clamour for the South East region to produce the president in 2023. In this interview, the Read more…