archiveAugust 2019

  Says team will regain lost glor Stakeholders commend govt for uncommon support   Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Wednesday that his government would transform the Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) and return it to the Nigerian Premier League. Makinde, who spoke at the Stakeholders Forum he...

      By Niyi Osundare Omoyele Sowore is not the enemy the Nigerian government needs or should want to fight. The real enemies are out there: hunger and grinding poverty of the masses in the country of a few dubious billionaires, widespread insecurity of life and property, a creeping...

A media advocacy group with focus on curbing children malnutrition in Nigeria, under the auspices of the Media Against Child Malnutrition (MeCAM) has explained why it was established, saying that the goal is to bridge the gap in nutrition reportage. The National Coordinator, MeCAM, Mr. Remmy Nweke in his intervention...

  The wife of Ondo State governor Chief Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu says the annual Bemore Summer boot camp is to create a platform for young girls to triumph and rule the world. The wife of the governor spoke at the Public Service Training institute at Ilara Mokin in Ifedore local...

The Southwest chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to conduct a proper audit of what transpired during the tenure of the immediate past governor of the state, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi. The party said that the audit exercise would help the new...

The Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland in Ogun, Oba Sikiru Adetona, has warned the people of Ijebuland not to politicise the selection of his successor. Adetona spoke at the 2019 edition of the Ojude Oba festival at the Awujale Pavillion on Tuesday in Ijebu-Ode. He urged them to ensure...

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria on Tuesday said he has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop providing foreign exchange for importation of food into the country. Buhari made the disclosure when he hosted All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to Eid-el-Kabir lunch at his country home in Daura,...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the hierarchy of the Army, Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to speak out on the abduction of its Okene Local Government Chairman, Musa Adelabu, by gunmen reportedly dressed in military fatigue. The party expressed grave concerned over the whereabouts of...

Followers of Ibraheem El-Zakyzaky have accused the Nigerian government and American secret service of frustrating the medical treatment of their leader at Madenta Hospital, New Delhi, India. The group revealed this on Tuesday in Abuja in a press statement signed by the Secretary of Academic Forum of the movement, Abdullahi...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he will appoint a minister who knows about agriculture, adding that he will use his second term in office to improve the lives of Nigerians by paying closer attention to the poor and the underprivileged. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman, in Abuja...