archiveApril 2022

European Union ambassadors on Monday said at least 40 per cent of Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas was exported to Europe, as they called for greater cooperation between Nigeria and the EU in the area of a possible increase in LNG supplies. The EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Samuela Isopi, who spoke...

The President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, has expressed fear that the 2023 Nigerian general elections might not hold, due to insecurity. Speaking on Monday at a security dialogue retreat jointly organised by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa in Abuja, Ayokunle also queried the...

The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday, warned Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over his presidential ambition. Primate Ayodele lauded Osinbajo for declaring his intention, but revealed that he can never become Nigeria’s President. In a statement signed by his Media Aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele...

      The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is not his son. He stated this on Monday in Abuja, in an interview with newsmen shortly after meeting with 12 APC governors. The meeting at Kebbi Governor’s Lodge,...

  The husband of late Nigerian gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu has been arrested days after her death in hospital in Abuja. Peter Nwachukwu, a lead singer at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, rose to fame in 2017 with ‘Ekwueme,’ a song she did with Prospa Ochimana. Peter Nwachukwu was...

Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has finally declared his intention to run for the office of president in 2023 general election. Osinbajo, from Ogun State, seeks to succeed his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, whose second term in office ends in May 2023. In his declaration speech posted on his...

A 12MW Solar Hybrid Power Plant for the University of Maiduguri and its teaching hospital is nearing completion, just as the Buhari Administration will continue to invest in the nation’s tertiary institutions to achieve greater results, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this in his remarks...

Former Burkina Faso President, Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life imprisonment over the alleged murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Records have it that Compaore assassinated Sankara who was the first Burkinabe president during a coup on October 15, 1987. The case had lingered for decades until when a...

  In line with the GoNigeria Initiative’s drive to mobilize Nigerian youths to be proactive and participate in the electoral process by registering to get their Permanent Voters' Cards in preparation for the forthcoming 2023 elections, GoNigeria has rewarded the first set of winners in the GoNigeria Digital Poetry Challenge...

  Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Thursday, expressed willingness to be involved in legal proceedings that would unravel the killers of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige. Soyinka on Saturday in a statement said the resumption of an investigation into Ige’s...