Wednesday, 16 April, 2025

Month: February 2021


The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has affirmed the disqualification of Imo North Senator-elect, Chukwuma Francis Ibezim as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the December 5, 2020 by-election. Ibezim was disqualified as the party’s candidate Read more…


The Anambra State government says it has concluded plans with Anambra JC Michaels Nigeria Limited under a Public Private Partnership arrangement to build state-of-the-art ultra modern international market. The market with 10,000 shops capacity is estimated to cost about N47billion Read more…


More than a dozen elderly care home residents in north-western Germany have been infected with the UK coronavirus strain around a week after receiving the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, local authorities have said. The first positive Covid-19 cases Read more…


There appears to be no backing away from the pronouncement the government made with regard to closing the Agbaedo New Spare Parts market Nnewi. Our reporter spoke to two of the executive members who confirmed that the state government has Read more…


…Says action important for US, Nigeria’s relations President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the endorsement of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the Director-General position of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is an important turnaround in the relations between Nigeria in particular, Read more…


The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and an aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Anambra 2021 governorship election, Chief George Moghalu has declared that the choice of the next governor Read more…


Mazi Samuel Iheanyichukwu Ohuabunwa, former chief executive officer of Neimeth International Pharmaceuticals Plc, heads the New Nigeria Group, a political platform that is set to give the Nigerian political system a face-lift.He was in Kano State a fortnight ago, where Read more…


Second Republic Minister of Steel Development and convener of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Paul Unongo, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the deployment of soldiers to protect northerners living in the SouthWest and other parts of the Read more…


The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has opened a study centre in Asaga-Ohafia community in Abia to expand access to higher education in the area through the open and distance learning programme. A statement by Mr Ambrose Gowong, Communications Read more…


Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Sunday threatened to drag a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Garus Gololo, to court if within two days he fails to prove the allegation of him sponsoring militia to kill Fulani Read more…


Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the US to drop all of its sanctions against the country if it wants Iran to return to its own commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal. Khamenei tweeted on Sunday that despite Read more…


By Ezeakukwu E. Nsoedo The acting CMD of NAUTH, Dr. Ugboaja, has kept up a frenetic schedule between running the hospital and determined effort to move most of the hospital’s operations to the permanent site and having to find ways Read more…