From Ifeoma Ejiofor The annual Anambra State new yam festival on Saturday held at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka. The event marked the beginning of the yam harvesting season, a crucial crop that is a staple food throughout the state. Read more…
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From Ifeoma Ejiofor The former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka will on Friday, November 15 deliver 3rd Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu annual memorial lecture. The Media Adviser for Athena Centre for Policy and Leadership, Aliyu Jalal revealed this in Read more…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has revealed that the Force has successfully recovered N10 million allegedly extorted from a group of young Nigerians by four officers in Bayelsa State. The officers, identified as ASP Emmanuel Ubong and Read more…
Federal Capital Territory FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has appointed Mr Olalere Olayinka as his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication and Social Media. In a statement signed by the Director, Press, in the office of the minister, Mr Anthony Ogunleye Read more…
The backlash from plans by President Bola Tinubu to reform the tax administration in the country is yet to abate, following fresh plans by state governors of northern extraction and members of the National Assembly from the region to scuttle Read more…
Some of the parents of the released minors over the August 1, 2024 #EndBadGovernance protest in Kano and Kaduna States have narrated their ordeal during the period of their children’s detention by the police authorities in Abuja. In separate interviews Read more…
Indications emerged during the week that the National Judicial Council (NJC) headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun is set to hold a crucial meeting anytime soon to consider, among others, reports of its several committees Read more…
The Naira depreciated against the dollar on Friday at the foreign exchange market to end the week on a negative note. FMDQ data showed that the weakened to N1678.87 per dollar on Friday from the N1639.50 exchange rate on Thursday. Read more…
From Don Peter Okoro The Man of God who successfully predicted the electoral victory of Donald Trump some months ago, Archbishop Prof Emmadavid Okafoagu JP2, has revealed that the reason he won the election is as a result of his Read more…
Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, the newly elected chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State, Nigeria, has been arrested in Texas, United States, for allegedly running a $3.3 million romance scam. If convicted, Nwadialo could face up to 20 years Read more…
US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he has not talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin yet, but that the pair will likely speak in the near future. Putin earlier said that he was ready to talk to Trump. In Read more…
A coalition of 51 anti-corruption groups has formally petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the immediate arrest and prosecution of the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Read more…