archiveAugust 2019

  No fewer than 200 Catholic Priests within the Catholic Diocese of Enugu have protested the killing of their colleague, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu, in Enugu State on Friday. Offu was killed by yet to be identified gunmen, suspected to be armed herdsmen, while traveling on Ihe-Agbudu Road in Awgu...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has moved the partial closure of portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to September 2, 2019. The partial closure was initially expected to commence on Saturday, August 3 to enable the construction company, Julius Berger, to work on a stretch of 1.4 kilometres between Berger and...

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan,  felicitates with the family, friends and political associates of the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, as he marks his 56th birthday on Saturday, August 3, 2019. Lawan, on behalf of himself and the entire Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, heartily...

Gunmen have killed another Catholic priest, Paul Offu, in Enugu State. The Catholic Diocese of Enugu on its Facebook page said that the reverend father was shot dead Thursday evening by “some hoodlums suspected to be the notorious and murderous Fulani herdsmen, along Ihe-Agbudu Road in Awgu Local Government Area...

  The Presidency has reacted to a list making the rounds of ‘Ministers-Designate and assigned portfolio’ by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari’s Special Assistant on New media, Bashir Ahmaad, on his Twitter page, urged Nigerians to disregard any list of ministers’ portfolio making the rounds on social media. According to him,...

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara, has appealed to the indigenes of the state involved in insurgency to lay down their arms to give room for integration with the rest of the society. Umara gave this advice during a visit to Jakana, which had witnessed Boko Haram attacks in recent...

The Director General (DG) Infrastructural Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Mr Chidi Izuwah says the Federal Government is committed to establishing more dry ports in the country. The DG said this on Thursday, when he led the management of the ICRC to inspect some Federal Government projects in Kano, which included...

President Muhammadu Buhari has raised a kitchen cabinet advisory committee to designate portfolios for all the ministerial nominees successfully screened by the National Assembly. The Nation reports that the committee raised by the president is expected to ensure the placement of nominees in appropriate ministries for effectiveness. The new committee...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Enugu State has sealed the premises of a federal lawmaker from Enugu North Senatorial Zone of the state. A statement on Friday by the Head, Public Enlightenment and Education Unit of the commission, Mr Suleiman Godwin, said that the...

By Ola Awoniyi   The screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate has come and gone but the dust it raised may take some time to settle. The announcement of ministerial nominations is always greeted with public excitement. And the case was not different this time round too, for obvious...