archiveMay 19, 2021

  By Ola Awoniyi There are as many opinions as there are Nigerians on how to address the challenges our country currently faces. That is not a problem in a democracy, every citizen has a right to express their view when the nation debates the way forward. And it does...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in an emergency meeting today, condemned the recurring arson and attacks on its facilities across the country, with the 2023 elections looming in the horizon. The commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, in the meeting attended by all Residents Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in the country, noted...

The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has said that God told him about the agreement of Southern governors to ban open grazing in the Southern Region. Recall that the Southern governors made this decision some days ago, even though some of their colleagues from the North...

Two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State have been set ablaze by unidentified persons. The offices were said to be located in Ebonyi and Ezza North Local Government Areas of the state. It was gathered that no casualties were recorded but there were extensive damages...

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 1, 387 cartons of Tramadol tablets concealed inside 1,000 cartons of ceramic tiles in Rivers. Mrs Ifeoma Ojukwu, the spokesperson for the Area II Command, Onne Port in Rivers, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt. Ojukwu said that...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron have committed their two nations to working together to fight insecurity bedeviling the Lake Chad basin area and the entire Sahel. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said...

India on Wednesday recorded 4,529 COVID-19 deaths, making it the highest single-day spike of fatalities anywhere in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, official data showed. The South Asian country set the grim global record by breaching the previous highest figure of 4,475 in the U.S. on Jan.12,...

A Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Tatfeng Mirabeau, has said that the COVID-19 vaccine should not be forced on any Nigerian. Mirabeau is of the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State. He expressed this view in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has rescheduled the 2021 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Unity Colleges from May 29 to June 5. This is contained in a statement by Mr Azeez Sani, NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Division in Abuja on Wednesday. Sani enjoined candidates, parents,...

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has decried the current inflation rate of 18.12 per cent in Nigeria, saying it is still very high. Its Director-General, Dr Muda Yusuf, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, following the April inflation rates reports by...