Friday, 17 May, 2024

Month: August 2020


The military authorities have placed troops of 82 Division, Enugu, on high alert following the clash between the operatives of the Department of State Services and the Indigenous People of Biafra in Emene, Enugu. It also asked troops to avoid Read more…


Berlin authorities have banned the upcoming protest against Covid-19 lockdown measures, saying the marches were being misused as a stage for right-wing extremists and “deniers” of the pandemic. Organizers of the August 29 “Assembly for Freedom” in central Berlin had registered 17,000 Read more…


Anambra State Civil Society Network (ACSONET) a platform for Non State Actors and Stakeholders in the State  has  identified withGov. Willie Obiano and the  Ndi Anambra, on their emergence asthe State with lowest unemployment rate in the country. Recall that Read more…


The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has said it is eliminating foreignexchange abuse and other practices by dealers which affect goodspurchased by the average Nigerian consumers.The CBN said this in a circular to all authorised dealers and thegeneral public which Read more…


President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Chief Executive Officers for nine of the agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture. Mr. Buki Ponle was appointed Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria. More details later. Read more…


President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina says  141 million people have benefitted from improved agricultural technologies to enhance food security in the last five years he assumed office. Adesina made this known during the opening of the Read more…


The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, has said former Governor of the State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife,is on his own on the issue of zoning the party’s ticket to the South Senatorial zone. The party said it had in Read more…


No fewer than 183 of 360 House of Representatives members do not have a single bill listed against their names since their inauguration in June last year, The Nation has found. The 1,039 bills that have passed first reading were sponsored by Read more…


BREAKING: COVID-19 confirmed cases now 53,021 in Nigeria August 26, 2020FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInWhatsAppEmail By Gabriel Ogunjobi Nigeria now has 53,021 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 221 new cases recorded on Wednesday night According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Read more…


THE Senate Caucus of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP;  Ohanaeze Youths and Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU,  have called for the the immediate setting up of a judicial panel of inquiry into the  killings last Sunday, of Igbo  youths Read more…


A group of Igbo socio-cultural think-tank, Nzuko Umunna, made up of Igbo professionals both at home and in the Diaspora, has urged Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to unravel the immediate Read more…


A FORMER Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, has resigned his appointment from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) at Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. Until the resignation, Obadiah was an official Read more…