archiveJuly 2, 2019

  Young Nigerians should rise above divisive ethnic and religious narratives about the country, and actively advocate for causes and issues that would deepen national unity, progress and development, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when he received...

  The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has announced the principal officers for the ninth Senate. The announcement was made as he read out separate letters from the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at plenary on Tuesday. The letters from the chairmen of both parties stated that...

  Zambia and Zimbabwe will start building the 2,400 MW Batoka Gorge hydro power plant next year, a company jointly owned by the two governments said on Tuesday. A statement by the two governments in Lusaka said that feasibility studies were almost complete and a developer for the project was...

John Cardinal Onaiyekan has called on the Federal Government to defuse the tension that had arisen in the country in recent times, restore peace and security. Onaiyekan made this call during the Opening/Welcome Dinner of the Second Edition of the Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP) 2019/2020 Fellowship Programme on...

  Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that ‘God is a Nigerian if not, the country would have ceased to exist’. Obasanjo who  made this known at the Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, also said that Nigeria is losing its identity due to ‘poor management of the nation’s diversity.’...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over N6.9 billion money laundering and fraud charges. The EFCC last Friday told the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State that it was...

  Exactly two months after his abduction by armed kidnappers, an in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari and a traditional ruler in Daura, Musa Umar, has regained freedom. He was kidnapped on May 2, 2019, at his home in Daura, Katsina State. The hometown of President Mohammadu Buhari. After weeks of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally ordered the sack of Prof. Usman Yusuf, Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Announcing the sack, Mrs. Boade Akinola, Director, Media, Federal Ministry of Health, said in a statement that the President had approved his termination of the appointment of Prof. Usman...