archiveJanuary 2022

says PDP unity must be paramount to all members Oyo State Governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, charged politicians to always seek power for the good of the nation. The governor stated this while receiving the governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike and his entourage, who came on a condolence...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its members, affiliate unions, and civil society partners to prepare for the planned January 27 and February 1 nationwide protests against the proposed removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. The congress also asked its affiliates nationwide to mobilise their members for...

Mali’s ruling junta has announced the recall of ambassadors and the closure of borders with West African nations after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) announced tough sanctions against the government on Sunday. In a statement read on national television on Monday, the military regime’s spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye...

The Federal Government and the United Nations World Food Programme have agreed to scale up the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme as schools reopen in Nigeria. Both parties said they would take the programme to the next level and that the decision came from a joint assessment conducted in the...

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, said that the group won’t support any candidate for President in the 2023 general election until the current 1999 constitution is changed to reflect true federalism and regional autonomy. The 93-year-old statesman also said there was no big deal...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the establishment of the Nigerian Diaspora Investment Trust Fund (NDITF), a private sector investment window with Nigerians in the Diaspora to support direct investments in the country. Speaking on Tuesday at the presentation of a compendium entitled +600 Diaspora Icons ay 60, published by...

spent about N1.4bn on electric bills last year The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, will deliver the 52nd convocation lecture of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka coming up next Monday, January 17, with a total of 12, 217 students from both undergraduate and postgraduate studies graduating....

By Ola Awoniyi When Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 1984 with a B.Sc. degree in Geography, taking an active role in partisan politics was not on his mind. The young man did not consider himself cut for the "dirty game." Rather, his focus was firmly...

The National Universities Commission has said universities should be isolated from the Federal Government’s circular on new employment owing to the shortage of lecturers. The commission also stated that 100,000 academic staff members were attending to 2.1 million students in Nigerian universities. This was disclosed by NUC in its latest...

Former Head of the Interim National Government (INC), Chief Ernest Shonekan, is dead. He died in Lagos at 85, according to sources. Shonekan was chairman of the INC, which succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida. He ruled from August 26 to November 17, 1993 until he was overthrown...