Vice President Kashim Shettima has appealed to Nigerian doctors to resist the Japa syndrome and join hands with the President Tinubu’s administration to salvage the country. The post Shettima urges …
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Tinubu’s administration drifting from June 12 policies, says don
A policy and public affairs analyst, as well as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Obinna Nwodim, has lamented that President Bola Tinubu’s …
Read More »CSOs canvass new social contract, true democracy
YIAGA Africa has sought a recommitment to democratic ethos and principles, strengthening of institutions and promotion of political education among the people. In a statement, yesterday, the Executive Director, Samson …
Read More »Russia denies recruiting Nigerian students for Ukranian war
The Russian Embassy in Nigeria on Wednesday vehemently denied claims of coercing African students, particularly Nigerians, to participate in the ongoing war in Ukraine in exchange for visa extensions. According …
Read More »Opposition kicks as gov, deputy, speaker, others abandon Niger for pilgrimage
Government activities and Democracy Day celebration were yesterday in low key following absence of the governor, Muhammad Umaru Bago, his deputy, Yakubu Garba, and Speaker of the House of Assembly, …
Read More »Again, vandals destroy two towers on Damaturu-Maiduguri transmission line
Barely a week after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) rehabilitated and re-stringed four vandalised towers along the Jos–Gombe 330kV transmission line supplying bulk power to substations in the Northeast …
Read More »Lagos community wants intervention over deplorable road
Property owners and residents of Wood Island Estate at Yewa community in the Igbo-Olomu area of Ikorodu have pleaded with the Lagos State government to repair their deplorable road. The …
Read More »Nigeria requires new constitution urgently, say Anyaoku, Nwachukwu, Obi others
Eminent Nigerians have stressed the urgent need to create a new constitution to accommodate the country’s diversity. Former Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku; former Military Administrator of Imo State, Gen …
Read More »Hijackers of Nigeria Airways aircraft in 1993 not students of FUTA, says ex-Registrar
An elder statesman and former Registrar of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Pa William Attoye, has cleared the air over the hijacking of Nigeria Airways aircraft by four …
Read More »Court sentences 23-year-old man to three years imprisonment for fraud
Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of a Benin High Court has convicted and sentenced a 23-year-old man, Joseph Edosa, to two years in prison for fraud. Ikponmwonba, however, gave him an option …
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