Friday, 17 January, 2025

Month: March 2021


Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said Nigeria must move towards more value addition to its resources by expanding its manufacturing scale. According to her, more manufacturing of the country’s abundant raw materials will lead to Read more…


At least six persons have been confirmed dead as a tanker laden with fuel ran into two Keke tricycles at Ntak Inyang Village, some few kilometres to Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. It was gathered that the truck immediately Read more…


The prosecutor of Biella, Italy has ordered the seizure of nearly 400,000 AstraZeneca vaccines and opened a manslaughter investigation following the death of a 57-year-old man hours after being inoculated. On Monday, the prosecutor of Biella, a town in the Read more…


an-Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stated that it was not bothered by the inability of Igbo political leaders to hold their bipartisan meeting in Enugu last weekend. The group said many factors may have been responsible for the botched Read more…


The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) a splinter Boko Haram faction has said it was responsible for the ambush of a military convoy that killed 15 soldiers and four civilian Joint Taskforce (JTF) members on Saturday.  The ISWAP Read more…


Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) has said the clamour for a northern Presidency in 2023 would amount to the north seeking a third term in office. Such move, he said, is unconstitutional. The Senator also opposed the call for amnesty Read more…


Prices of vegetables and other perishable produce have crashed in Kano, due to the market glut caused by increased fresh supplies from farms, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN checks at Kofar Wambai and Rimi markets, in Kano Read more…


The South South Zonal Legal Adviser of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr George Turner, has commended the PDP Governors Forum and the national leadership of the party for the appointment of Rivers State governor, Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, as Chairman of Read more…


Alhaji Buba Galadima is a renowned political figure in the North. In this interview, he barred his mind on the knotty issue of banditry, politics behind government’s response to it, as well as other sundry issues.  My thought is what you Read more…


…Says that’ll make Imo people become more restive even hostile to him Dr Ikedi Ohakim, one of the ex- governors of Imo State, whose administration was also investigated by a judicial panel that probed land matters between June 2006 and May Read more…


The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, on Sunday, assured that the ongoing war against Boko Haram will soon be over. Attahiru, who was in Yobe to play morale boosting visit on the troops of Sector 2 Read more…


The Osun State Police Command has clarified that the killing of six family members in the state is not due to any clash between farmers and herders. The command made this known in a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Read more…