Friday, 26 April, 2024

Month: November 2023


Germany is being bossed by its Western partners because it lacks sovereignty, and its policymakers demonstrate poor leadership skills, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a meeting with young Russian scientists on Wednesday. Putin weighed on the EU’s push to Read more…


Four Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and a 15-year-old male as well as two senior militant commanders, were killed on Wednesday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian official news agency WAFA said. “The two Read more…


The Managing Director of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Dr Emeka Agbasi, disclosed on Thursday that a sum of N300 billion is required annually for the maintenance of federal roads across the country. He stated this during an interactive Read more…


A human rights activist, Sesugh Akume, has petitioned the Chief Justice of Nigeria/Chairman National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, to probe six judicial officers for what he described as gross misconduct. The petition which was received and acknowledged by Read more…


President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s intervention in the leadership crisis in Ondo State last week halted plans to have the state House of Assembly invoke a doctrine of necessity and declare the deputy governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, acting governor. The president, according Read more…


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has condemned the demolition of property across the country. In a statement on his X account on Thursday, Obi expressed concern, urging the government to focus on alleviating economic hardships and Read more…


The Erelu Kuti IV of Lagos, Abiola Dosunmu has said that the controversy over ownership of Lagos will soon be put to rest with her new initiative. Dosunmu, who is also the Erelu Yeye Oodua, stated this at a briefing Read more…


from Ifeoma Ejiofor Nnewi The Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, has inaugurated an electric energy meter manufacturing factory in Oraifite, Ekwusigo LGA of Anambra State. Speaking during the inauguration at the factory’s premises in Oraifite on Thursday, Shettima said the energy factory, Read more…


Daredevil armed robbers on Wednesday shot an accountant of the Ogun State Government, Taiwo Oyekanmi, and carted away with the government’s funds in Abeokuta, the state capital. Our correspondent gathered that Oyekanmi, the Director of Finance at the Governor’s office, Read more…


After months of political impasse in Ondo State, the state Deputy governor, Lucky Ayedatiwa, resumed office on Wednesday and might preside over the State Executive Council meeting slated for Thursday. The State Executive Council has not met for about three Read more…


The New Nigeria People’s Party, on Wednesday, petitioned the European Union, the British High Commission, the Canadian Embassy and the Economic Community of West African States among others over the Court of Appeal’s judgment that upheld the sacking of Governor Read more…


A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, told Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, how the inability of a defunct commercial bank (Diamond Bank) to disburse huge sums of Read more…