President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Nigerian-born Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience and top-flight researcher, Ijeoma Uchegbu, on her election as President of Wolfson College, one of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge. This is contained in a statement by Read more…
Efforts by Ukraine and its Western backers to convince, shame, and sanction companies into leaving the Russian market have backfired, placing lucrative enterprises in Russian hands at discount prices and pumping more than a billion dollars worth of exit taxes Read more…
Pope Francis on Sunday again suggested Israel was using “terrorism” tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in a church complex. At his weekly blessing, Francis referred to Read more…
A survivor of the 2015 Zaria massacre in Kaduna State, Hajiya Jummai Karofi, has expressed sadness over the loss of her five children during the incident. She also dismissed hopes of getting justice. According to Karofi, “I am a mother of Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Nigeria’s first female governor and former governor of Anambra State Dame Virgy Etiaba has described the death of former governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife as a huge shock and a great loss to the Nation. Coming Read more…
The EU will need to substantially reform its rules before Ukraine can join, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters on Friday. Macron backs Kiev’s accession to the bloc, but warned that Ukraine must not be allowed to undercut EU industry. Read more…
A Ukrainian village councilor detonated three grenades at a meeting. CBS News reports that the explosion left 26 people injured. The incident, which took place on Friday morning in Keretsky, Ukraine, was live-streamed on Facebook. The clip, released by the Read more…
The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide, Chief Emanuel Iwuanyanwu, has urged Igbos affected by the demolition of their houses in the Abule Ado area of Lagos by the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, not to cry over split milk. He reiterated Read more…
The Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) have secured a judgment over oil mining leases formerly operated by ADDAX as a Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a suit by Kaztec Engineering Ltd, Read more…
Recent polls show former President Trump leading President Biden in key swing states that will likely decide the 2024 election, indicating Trump is not just the overwhelming favorite to secure the GOP nomination but is in a strong position to Read more…
The Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election in Rivers State, Mrs Beatrice Itubo, has regretted that the political crisis rocking the State was affecting businesses and the livelihood of people of the state. Itubo, a Read more…
Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, who served as the first executive governor of Anambra State in the Third Republic, has died at the age of 85. He passed away on Thursday evening around 6pm at the Federal Medical Centre in Abuja. This Read more…