archiveJuly 5, 2019

  President Muhammadu Buhari has  been queried by the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (UN) for his inability to stem the high level of corruption, killings, and human rights violations among others in the country. The accusations were contained in a report released at the conclusion of its...

The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) has said that more than 58 per cent or 172 million West Africans lacked electricity. The Executive Director of the centre, Mr Mahamah Kappiah, said this in his presentation during an oversight visit by members of the ECOWAS Parliament to...

Nnia Nwodo, president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organization of Igbo in Nigeria has called on his people to get ready to defend themselves against the threat by a northern group to forcibly evict them. The group made its position known while reacting to the 30-day ultimatum the Coalition of...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has apprehended another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for upgrading his score from 162 to 206 with the help of a fraudster. Kokowa became the second candidate to be apprehended by the board following that of Adah Eche who...

Few moments after the Supreme Court judgement declaring Gboyega Oyetola as the duly elected governor of Osun, the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has reacted saying that the judgement cannot be said to be the end of Senator Ademola Adeleke. The former vice president said...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Osun State and dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate Ademola Adeleke in the September 2018 election. The court in a split decision...

  The Nigerian Stock Exchange has announced that the planned Cross Border Secondary Listing of 3,758,151,504 Ordinary Shares of Airtel Africa Plc. has been postponed from the scheduled date of Friday, July 5, 2019. According to terse statement from The Exchange, “the postponement was necessitated by the need to ensure...

  Two thirds of Germans would back legalisation of active voluntary euthanasia, while fewer than one in five are opposed. This was made known through a poll by the ‘YouGov research institute’ published in Berlin on Friday. Under current German law, active voluntary euthanasia is banned. Killing another person on...