Thursday, 12 November, 2026

Month: March 2022


Nigeria’s top wine industry expert has said that over 40 million Nigerians consume wine on a regular basis, and that there are existing opportunities for the industry to continue to experience growth and also provide employment opportunities, post-covid. He also Read more…


The Coalition of Southern and Middle Belt Youth Leaders Assembly, the umbrella body of all the youth groups in the South East, South-South, South West, and Middle Belt regions has flayed the Federal Government over what it described as “financial Read more…


The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, has ordered the arrest of the host of an event in the Oniru area of the state where petrol was handed out as souvenirs to attendees in kegs. The police spokesman Read more…


A legal practitioner, Mrs Bukola Ajayi, has said adultery is the most common reason divorce-seeking spouses have cited in courts as grounds for dissolution of their marriages. Speaking in Lagos on Saturday, Ajayi revealed that “95 per cent of those Read more…


Sweden and Finland will further strengthen their security cooperation in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the prime ministers of both countries said on Saturday, but they were non-committal on joining NATO. “Russia’s war against a sovereign European nation puts Read more…


Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he chose to attack Ukraine beyond the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) to prevent the West from “endlessly” supplying “nationalists and radicals” with various resources, such as weapons and money. Read more…


Billionaire Elon Musk vowed on Friday that his SpaceX Starlink internet service would only block Russian news outlets “at gunpoint” after he was allegedly ordered by unnamed governments to censor the country’s media sources. Musk claimed in a Twitter post that Starlink had “been told Read more…


When Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido talks about music he is calm and collected. But bring up politics or charity work and he jumps out of his chair. “I’ve been doing music for 11 years,” he told the BBC’s DJ Edu. Read more…


Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) controlled National Assembly Assembly for rejecting five gender bills recently presented to the assembly. He described the action as a major setback to Nigeria’s democratic advancement blaming it on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Read more…


In a renewed attack on innocent citizens, bandits have killed five persons, injured many and set a fuel tanker carrying 33,000 litres of fuel ablaze in Birnin Gwari local government area of Kaduna State. This was disclosed in a statement Read more…


The Inspector General of Police(IGP), Usman Baba, has approved a new dress code for female police Officers. The new dress code which is in line with international best practices according to the IGP, addresses the growing concern for gender mainstreaming Read more…


The federal government says it does not have money to meet the demands of the striking members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Channels’ Television programme, “Politics Today,” on Read more…