Kenya’s defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, President William Ruto said. Today at 2:20 pm, our nation suffered a tragic air accident… I am Read more…
Month: April 2024
The National Security Adviser to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Thursday, expressed concern about what he described as the booming illegal firearms market in the North. This was as he decried the high level of poverty in northern Nigeria, Read more…
TWO loyalists of the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, including a serving member of the state House of Assembly, Sokari Goodboy, were allegedly arrested in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday. Also arrested by the police was a chieftain Read more…
Orders his arrest at any entry or exit point The Nigeria Immigration Service on Thursday placed the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaha Bello on its watchlist after evading arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Read more…
Acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Iliya Damagun, was bullish on Thursday after he survived the push to remove him from the position. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the main opposition party was expected to Read more…
The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has queried the continued stay in office of the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu. Recently, many party members have raised concerns about the ongoing tenure Read more…
NLNG has recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) as part of the second phase of its multi-billion-naira Hospital Support Programme (NLNG HSP). The purpose of such a relationship was to raise Read more…
Russia is withdrawing its peacekeepers from Karabakh, a region previously outside Baku’s control, the Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said reports of the move that had appeared in Azerbaijani media were correct. What was formerly the self-proclaimed Read more…
The job of commanding a nuclear submarine should go to smart and well-qualified officers. Or at least that’s the case in Western navies. Not so in the Chinese navy. Except for engineers, Chinese submarine officers tend to come from military Read more…
The presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has bemoaned the perennial power situation in the country. He said the collapse of the national grid a record 141 times in 11 years called for urgent, Read more…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, said yesterday that the apex bank is not defending the Naira with the nation’s foreign reserves. He was speaking against the backdrop of the recent decline in Nigeria’s foreign Read more…
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP GF) has said that Thursday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting will not discuss leadership change. This is contrary to expectations that the session will deliberate on the fate of Ambassador Iliya Damagun who Read more…