archiveAugust 2021

  The leaders of Ogoniland in Rivers State under the auspices of the Ogoni Liberation Initiative have pledged to cooperate with the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources in its territory. The Ogoni leaders made the pledge Tuesday at the Ogoni...

   The African Development Bank (AfDB), through its Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund, has provided more than 7.3 million dollars for youth empowerment. According to a statement from the bank on Tuesday, the fund provides project preparation and co-financing for bank projects and places emphasis on employability, entrepreneurship...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has condemned the attack on Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna State, describing the incident as embarrassing. Some gunmen had invaded the residential quatres of the NDA, killed two officers and abducted one other in the wee hours of Tuesday. In a statement on Tuesday,...

  The Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Rt. Honourable Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani, has described the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) by bandits on Tuesday as an assault on Nigeria’s territorial integrity, which must be treated with all seriousness. In a statement signed by his Special...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday inaugurated an ultra-modern industrial shoe-making hub equipped with the modern technology at Nkwelle Ezunaka Village in Anambra. In a speech at the event, Osinbajo described the complex as “one-stop-shop digital leather and industrial hub”. He said the complex had the capacity to produce shoes...

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, received 85 students of the University of Jos, who are indigenes of the state, evacuated from the troubled Plateau State. The governor, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Hon Segun Ogunwuyi, assured the students that the state government would always do...

A former governor of Ogun, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has called on Nigerians, particularly the elderly, to shun misgivings surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines. Osoba made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos, following confirmation that elder statesman Sen. Olabiyi Durojaiye, died of...

Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, has said that the 3 per cent operating expense allocated to host communities in the recently assented Petroleum Industry Act 2021 is more than the 30 per cent profit share for oil exploration in the ‘frontier basins’. The...

The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, says Nigeria is in a very perplexing situation under the administration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, on Tuesday, the ex-vice-presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change said that...

  The gunmen who abducted Major Stephen Dantong from the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Afaka, Kaduna, on Tuesday have demanded a ransom of N200 million from military authorities. The gunmen invaded the Afaka barracks of the academy around 1am, killing two soldiers identified as Lieutenant Commodore Wulah and Flight Lieutenant...