archiveJanuary 29, 2020

    The United States and Japan flew citizens out of the Chinese city at the epicenter of a new virus outbreak on Wednesday, as the death toll rose sharply to 132 and the first case appeared in the Middle East. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it is...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gras (NUPENG) Chief Frank Kokori has advised President Muhammad Buhari to be vigilante and watchful by “shinning his eyes” warning that his government is being run by a cabal. Kokori...

The call by the Minority Leader of the Senate,  Enyinnaya Abaribe,  on the  President Muhammadu Buhari  to resign immediately based on his alleged inability to curtail the alarming security challenges in the country caused a stir on the floor of thenation’s Senate on Wednesday. Abaribe spoke after the Senate Leader,...

Walter Duru, Ph.D On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, in one of the most controversial judgments in Nigerian history, sacked the Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress- APC, Senator Hope Uzodimma Governor of the state....

  The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS), on Tuesday said that one major way to boost local rice consumption among Nigerians is to invest in local fabrication of de-stoning machines. National Coordinator, Mr Tedheke Retson, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

  The Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Collins Chiji, and seven other members of the house have announced their defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). This defection is coming barely three weeks after the Supreme Court sacked Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and...

  Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, disclosed on Tuesday in Uyo that the State government will soon list the shares of its own Ibom Airlines on The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), The governor disclosed this when the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr Alex Okoh,...

The Lagos State Police Command has summoned leaders of the three unions at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), for protesting against the controversial doctorate degree of the acting Director-General, Chima Igwe. According tp Punch Correspondent who obtained copies of the letters served on the Chairman of the...

  A highrise building at the popular Balogun market on Lagos Island is currently on fire Eyewitnesses told Breaking Times that the fire started from the building opposite Oluwole Car Park on Martins Street. Details of the cause of the fire incident are still sketchy. Fire fighters are on hand...

President Muhammadu Buhari has downplayed the claims that certain individuals among his aides and relatives, often called “cabals,” have an influence on his government. “I was the one who went round the country on campaigns, and I was the one voted into office as President, twice. No one else did,...