July 12, 2021 PRESS STATEMENT I am minded and constrained to add my voice in making this appeal to the sitting members of the National Assembly, not as the Vice Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, nor as Chairman of the Read more…
Month: July 2021
There is a saying that ‘all works and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. It is in that spirit that members of the Royal Table Tennis Club of Nnewi, took time off from their active table tennis session to Read more…
Erudite scholar and two-time minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof Ihechukwu Madubuike, in this encounter with Sunday Sun speaks on Nigeria’s condition and the problem, the security challenge, the feasibility of Igbo president in 2023, unlearned lessons of June Read more…
THE ALTERNATIVE By Reno Omokri In my column last week, I published a piece, titled ‘Destroying Age-Old Myths About The Yoruba’, in which I described the heroic sacrifice made by the late Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi as apocryphal. Apocryphal simply means Read more…
Finally, the much-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill was passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly, recently. Of the 319 clauses and eight schedules that make up the bill, the ones concerning the host communities and the frontier development of Read more…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted a consignment of 26.15 kilogrammes of heroin with a street value of over N6.5 billion at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed Read more…
This past week, the ghost of agitation for power rotation came alive again to reopen the traditional fault lines between the North and the South. To be sure, Nigeria is not about to hold any general election, at least, not in Read more…
Virgin founder Richard Branson successfully lands after beating Jeff Bezos in billionaire space race
Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has made a successful landing following his trip to space on Sunday, narrowly beating Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos to travel away from Earth. Branson made a trip to suborbital space on Read more…
Lionel Messi was uncharacteristically quiet in Argentina’s 1-0 win over Brazil on Saturday but his performance was irrelevant compared to what the victory means – a first major title for Messi in the blue and white of the national side. Read more…
A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say. After a gun battle in the capital Port-au-Prince, 17 were detained, some at the house they were using, others after Read more…
Nigeria pulled off one of the greatest upsets in international basketball history Saturday night by stunning Team USA in an Olympic exhibition game in Las Vegas, 90-87. It was Team USA’s first-ever loss to an African nation. Team USA defeated Read more…
•Why we oppose call for Southern president —North A pan-Fulani group, the Gan Allah Fulani Development Association (GAFDAN), and Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore have cautioned Southern governors against banning open grazing in September and employing what they called intimidation tactics Read more…