archiveOctober 2021

Great content has been described as key to survival and making of online news outlets sustainable in this era. The Editor-in-Chief, Premium Times, Mr. Musikilu Mojeed, gave this insight in his presentation at the 2021 annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) held at Sheraton Lagos last...

Aisha Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has appealed to the media to stop shunning governors’ wives. She spoke Wednesday night in Abuja at an event where some first ladies were honoured. Aisha, the Special Guest of Honour, was represented by her spokesman, Aliyu Abdullahi. Aisha commended the wives...

  A former Senate President, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, has emerged the preferred candidate of North Central in the race for the national chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ayu emerged after a marathon meeting of the leaders of the zone on Tuesday night at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge,...

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, met President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja and sought provision of funds for those interested in setting up ranches in the state. Addressing newsmen after their meeting, Obaseki said while most states in the South had enacted laws on the anti-opening...

The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Finance to, as a matter of urgency, release adequate funds to the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the purpose of carrying out emergency repairs on all federal roads in the country. This was even as the chamber called on the Federal...

  Our attention has been drawn to statements and reports in the media mis-characterising as a call for devaluation, the view of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, that the Naira exchange rate was being kept artificially low. Prof. Osinbajo is not calling for the devaluation of the Naira. He has,...

  A PDP chairmanship candidate in Lagos State, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, on Tuesday promised to set up N1 billion fund to build a state secretariat for the party if elected at the Oct. 16 congress.Pearse, a University of Lagos lecturer, made the pledge in an interview with the News Agency...

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Bello, has advocated a special revenue status for the territory to meet up with its infrastructure quest. Bello made the call at an advocacy and sensitisation meeting on the review of the existing revenue allocation formula on Tuesday, in Abuja. The...

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4,853,570 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources released on Tuesday. At least 238,150,550 cases of coronavirus have been registered. The vast majority have recovered, though some have continued to experience symptoms weeks...

The city of Abeokuta was agog with golfers, caddies, gallery, other sports lovers and indigenes as the four kingdoms of Egbaland – Alake, Agura, Oke-Ona and Olowu engaged in a tee battle that attracted thousands of people to the second edition of the King’s Cup Golf tournament. Bigi, Nigeria’s favorite...