By Chinwe Nwacha, Onitsha The Hon. Member representing Onitsha North and South Federal Constituency, Hon. Engr. Emeka Godwin Idu, has launched an initiative tagged, “Operation Light Up the Streets,” aimed at installing solar-powered street lights across communities within his constituency. Read more…
By Uzo Ugwunze Stakeholders in the power and energy generation and distribution sector from Nigeria and other African countries have emphasised the urgent need for Nigeria explore ways to transit to renewable energy sources. The call was made on at Read more…
President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons. Putin Read more…
Tax Reform Bills and resolution of the political crisis in Rivers State are expected to top the agenda of the Senate as it resumes from its break resumes today. Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, in a statement issued yesterday, said the upper Read more…
The World Bank has disclosed that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are now living below the poverty line, reflecting deepening hardship in the country’s hinterlands. This was revealed in the Bank’s April 2025 Poverty and Equity Brief Read more…
No fewer than 19 persons have been killed by bandits in attacks on communities in Bauchi, Bauchi State . A retired senior security official said he counted 19 bodies of victims. Our correspondent gathered that several others were injured in the Read more…
The wave of defections from opposition political parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may have extended to the camp of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi. The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Ahead the May 8 visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to Anambra State, Soludo Grassroot Warriors Initiative (SGWI) has expressed her deep appreciation for the administration of Prof Charles Soludo. The Convener of SGWI, Chief Hon Rogers Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Police operatives in Anambra State command have on Saturday thwarted kidnap attempt in Neni in Anaocha LGA of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) Tochukwu Ikenga (SP) revealed this in a press statement on Sunday. Read more…
The Chinese leader’s three-day trip will include talks with Vladimir Putin and attendance at the Victory Day Parade Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia from May 7 to 10 to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow and hold Read more…
Popular human rights lawyer Dele Farotimi has promised to make those behind his incarceration account for it in the halted defamation case with legal icon Afe Babalola (SAN). Farotimi was arrested by the police in December 2024 and taken to Read more…
In this analysis, Abuja Bureau Chief LEON USIGBE explores the quiet but strategic conversations in the North about positioning former President Goodluck Jonathan as a potent tool to challenge President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid. BY 2027, Nigeria’s political terrain may Read more…