Monday, 25 November, 2024

Month: July 2021


The Senate on Thursday commenced the screening of four nominees for appointment as National Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The nominees, who are currently in the Senate building for a screening exercise by the Senate Committee on Read more…


A former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been excluded from a promotion exercise by the Police Service Commission (PSC), which promoted 24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank. Spokesperson of the Read more…


Western nations headed to a likely Friday showdown with Russia over the delivery of humanitarian aid from Turkey to rebel-held northwest Syria, where the U.N. says 3.4 million people are in desperate need of food and other assistance while the Read more…


Two more suspects have been arrested over the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise a day earlier, police have said, taking the total number held to six. Officers have killed a total of seven people in connection with Moise’s death Read more…


By Ifeoma Ejiofor Valentine Ozigbo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag-bearer for the 2021 Anambra governorship election, took another significant step in unifying the party ahead of the November 6 poll when he hosted the party’s former statutory and ad-hoc Read more…


The six South-West governors on Tuesday night met with Senators and Members of House of Representatives from their region over the issues of Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), Electoral Act Amendment Bill, and constitution review. Speaking to journalists shortly after the Read more…


Some Igbo leaders and academia, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to quickly address the alleged marginalisation, injustice and others being meted the Igbo nation since the end of the Biafra civil war, arguing that it was against the Read more…


Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have kidnapped four farmers at Ikosun-Ekiti in Moba Local Government Area of Ekiti State. A community source told our correspondent that the farmers Gbadamosi Sarafa, Yinka Adeniran and two others were kidnapped at the farm Read more…


Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami has faulted comments credited to Solicitor General of the Provincial State of Alberta in Canada, Kelechi Madu on the recent arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People Read more…


Open grazing of cattle is a grave source of conflict between farmers and the herders throughout the country. The rate at which the clashes regularly occur is very alarming and indeed unsettling. This ever rising conflict has become a notorious national Read more…


The Director General of Science and Equipment development Institute SEDI, Prof. Samuel Ndubisi has been reportedly assassinated in Enugu by unidentified gunmen. This is coming barely 48 the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of AutoEase Service Limited, Late Ifeanyi Read more…


The Aare Oona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has appealed to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; and The Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, to assist Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Read more…