archiveMarch 20, 2021

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has warned that the Federal Government will be held responsible if the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, is assassinated. He insisted that if Ortom was killed, the country would be plunged into another civil war. Wike spoke while reacting to attempt on Governor Ortom’s...

Mr Chris Isiguzo, the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Saturday urged media practitioners to speak against insecurity facing the country to enable the Federal Government to tackle it decisively. Isiguzo made the call in Minna, Niger, during the 2021 press week/award ceremony organised by the...

 Former President Olusegun Obasanko, said on Saturday that he would live the rest of his life by serving humanity. Obasanjo spoke in Abeokuta at the 20th anniversary of the Communion Faith Assembly/dedication of its new cathedral. The Pastor in charge at the church is Bishop Tunde Akin-Akinsanya, the chairman of the...

 The Management of the Kwara State University (KWASU) has announced that it would reopen the 2020/2021 admission portal into the university, on Sunday, March 21, 2021.This was disclosed in a statement from AbdulRazaq Sanni, Director, University Relations, on Saturday, in Ilorin. According to the statement, this became necessary after the...

  A new report launched by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on the impact of COVID-19 on e-commerce in the continent, shows that the pandemic, bad as it is, has opened up new opportunities for the continent’s digital economy.The report was launched on Saturday at a side event at...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended Saturday’s bye-election to fill the vacant seat of Ekiti East Constituency 1 in the State House of Assembly. INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Tella Adeniran, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, said the commission suspended the poll following the violence unleashed on voters...

The  Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Dr Temitope Onuminya, have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants. Mrs Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Oguama,...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen militia on Saturday made an attempt to assassinate Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state. The militia however failed in the attempt to assassinate the governor, as security men attached to him were able to repel the attack. Ortom fingered the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association...

Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the southwest have demanded a review of the ruling party's constitution. The governors' position was confirmed by the chairman of the southwest governors' forum, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state. Akeredolu spoke at the APC Constitution Review and Stakeholders’...

  An 18 year-old-girl, Idowu Biletiri, on Saturday allegedly stabbed her elder brother, Kehinde Biletiri, to death at Igbokoda in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.An eyewitness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that trouble started when the suspect returned home after leaving the house for some days...