Multi-award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie says, becoming the first woman in her hometown to be conferred a chieftaincy title will be a source of inspiration for other young girls and women to follow suit. The renowned writer also urged culture Read more…
Sociocultural youth groups, have described the false claim of terrorism financing against the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, by Department of Security Services (DSS) as provocative and wicked. The groups in a joint statement signed by their leaders, Comrade Meliga, Mallam Read more…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has vowed put to an end the activities of undesirable political structures that put Nigerians in the bondage of hunger and poverty. The former governor of Anambra State also Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The House of Representatives ambition of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) standard bearer, Barr Johnmary Akachukwu Maduakolam, received a boost as stakesholders in Ihiala federal constituency resolved to send the UK trained lawyer to the green chamber Read more…
The proposed confiscation of Russian funds and property by Germany and their subsequent transfer to Ukraine may create a dangerous precedent in international law, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, has claimed. In Read more…
Armed men took hostages, burned vehicles and stormed an airport in northern Mexico on Thursday after federal forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, one of the world’s most wanted cartel leaders and the son of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Read more…
Kiev is not interested in the cessation of hostilities that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced earlier on Thursday. The rejection was confirmed by top officials in Ukraine. There can be a “temporary truce” only when Russia leaves “occupied territories,” MikhailPodoliak, an Read more…
FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has revealed why he endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, for next month’s election. Clark said he was throwing his weight behind Obi Read more…
Moves to remove the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu from office, failed yesterday as the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Garki, quashed the allegations of false assets declaration against him. The Read more…
The Obi of Onitsha, His Majesty Nnaemeka Achebe, has denied ever engaging in any altercation with former President Olusegun Obasanjo when the latter was in office over the Second Niger Bridge project. The prominent monarch was reacting to a statement Read more…
As Nigerians head to the polls to elect a new President in less than two months, political campaigns have received a fresh twist after former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, endorsed one of the frontrunners, Peter Obi of the Labour Party. Read more…
Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has said President Muhammadu Buhari has stayed away from the campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Tinubu, because of alleged lack of confidence in the ability of the latter to win the February Read more…