MTN Group said it is committed to supporting a bi-national conference for businesses operating in South Africa and Nigeria while restating its long-term commitment to the Nigerian market. The telecom operator also said it plans to connect 2,000 rural communities to Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) claims it has uncovered a secret plot Fulani pastoralist advocates Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), in collaboration with security agencies to disarm vigilantes in the South East. IPOB spokesperson Emma Powerful, Read more…
The general assembly of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has called on the federal government to embrace dialogue with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) in order to end the ongoing crisis. The secretary general Read more…
Saudi Arabia executed 81 men including seven Yemenis and one Syrian on Saturday, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution in decades. The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported there in all of 2021 and the 27 Read more…
Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine on Saturday, capturing the eastern outskirts of a key southern port and waging an increasingly violent campaign with an eye to encircling the capital even as they sought to bring Read more…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his readiness for negotiations with Russia. He requested that the Israeli prime minister convene peace talks in Jerusalem. “A group of Ukrainians and Russian representatives are discussing certain issues. They began talking about something, Read more…
A Meeting of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF), held on Thursday, 10th March 2022, in Abuja under the Chairmanship of the Leader and Elder Statesman, Chief E. K. Clark, OFR, CON. Delegations of the constituent Organisations of Read more…
President Joe Biden on Friday called for a removal of normal trade relations with Russia, allowing for new tariffs on Russian imports in yet another effort to ratchet up sanctions over Moscow’s intensifying invasion of Ukraine. Biden said the move will Read more…
Russia should arm its allies in the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk with weapons captured from the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu suggested on Friday. The Donbass forces would put to good use the arms, including Read more…
A Lagos State Chief Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Friday, has remanded the driver of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Andrew Nice, accused of being responsible for the death of his passenger, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, for 30 days. Magistrate Omobola Salawu ordered Read more…
Men of the Ones State Security Network otherwise known as Operation Amotekun have arrested no fewer than 23 suspected kidnappers in the state. The state commandant of the corps, Chief Adetunji Adeleye who paraded the suspects in Akure said the Read more…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said the Nigeria’s economy would remain vulnerable and weak, if illegal bunkering and artisanal refining of crude oil continue unabated. Governor Wike made the observation at the commissioning and presentation of 14 ballistic gunboats, donated Read more…