Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Month: April 2022


Former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of defunct Diamond Bank, and two-time governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Alex Otti has declared for the Abia governorship seat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), with the promise to Read more…


The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that he would make a pronouncement on his potential bid for the presidency on Tuesday. Mr Ngige said this at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, at a reception organised Read more…


Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Sunday said Mariupol, which has been under siege since the start of the invasion, said the city “doesn’t exist anymore.” “The situation in Mariupol is both dire militarily and heartbreaking. The city doesn’t exist Read more…


By Ifeoma Ejiofor Valentine Ozigbo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the last Anambra State gubernatorial election has accepted the clamour by the political blocs in the state to run for the Anambra South Senatorial seat. In a conference Read more…


The Russian military has used “high-precision air-launched missiles” to destroy a munitions factory in Brovary, a town outside the Ukrainian capital, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told a daily press briefing on Sunday. He also claimed that 68 targets were Read more…


Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after six months aboard their country’s newest orbital station in the longest crewed mission to date for China’s ambitious space program. The Shenzhou 13 space capsule landed in the Gobi desert in the Read more…


In our series of letters from African journalists, to mark eight years since the Chibok school abductions, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani speaks to a rescued girl who has been treated very differently to her former classmates who Read more…


The CMD NAUTH, Dr. Ugboaja, has called upon all Christians to remember that the essence of the pain and sacrifice that Jesus Christ went through for humanity was an act of love. He called on all the men and women Read more…


Preacher and President of the Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association Incorporated, Rev. Uma Ukpai, on Saturday, said Osinachi Nwachukwu sang for him three times but did not open up on her predicament and domestic violence which led to her death. Ukpai Read more…


 Nigeria’s electoral commission on Friday suspended voter registration in most parts of oil-producing Imo state after an election official was shot dead by unknown gunmen, as the country prepares for a series of votes early next year. Armed groups have Read more…


Presidential hopeful and Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has vowed to end the massacre of citizens of Plateau and other States if elected president in 2023. This is as he described as regrettable the failure of the All Progressives Read more…


FORMER Military Administrator of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the proposed national census billed for April 2023 and instead concentrate in tackling the insecurity confronting the country.  The former military Read more…