archiveJune 15, 2022

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has backed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State as the vice-presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 elections. The NWC members on Wednesday voted 13-3 to endorse the report of the panel which had earlier nominated Wike for the...

    A bill seeking to provide for the establishment of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme scaled second reading in the Senate, on Wednesday. The bill sponsored by Senator Umar Sulieman (APC, Kwara North), seeks to provide a realistic framework for the success of education financing. Suleiman, in his...

A call has been made to the Federal Government through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy for the naming of the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) after the former pioneer Minister of Communications, late Engr. Olawale Adeniji Ige. This call was contained in an address presented...

  targets completion of entry into Chad and Cameroon in Q3 2022 and further hydrocarbon acquisitions   Savannah Energy PLC, the British independent energy company focused around the delivery of Projects that Matter in Africa, is pleased to announce its 2021 Annual Report and Audited Accounts. The Full Year total...

  mourns victims of Owo attack   The Senate has urged security agencies in the country to be discreet in collaborating on intelligence gathering and sharing to prevent future attacks by bandits and insurgents. This was just as the chamber condemned the recent attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo,...

  The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the nomination of Umar Yahaya as Co-Chairman of the Governing Council of Unclaimed Funds Trust Funds. The request was contained in a letter dated 3rd June, 2022. The letter was read by the Senate President, Ahmad...

  The Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said with the emergence of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, the party has no option but to field a Muslim running mate. Kalu, who backed the proposed Muslim-Muslim ticket by the...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has urged Nigerians to ignore the ‘manipulated video’ suggesting that he is on his way out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The video circulating all over social media, purports that the governor intends to defect from the PDP following his loss at the...

  Prof. Femi Soyinka, younger brother to the renowned playwright and first black African Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka is dead. According to a statement from the Soyinka Family of Ake/Isara, Ogun State, Prof. Soyinka died in the early hours of Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at his home in Kukumada...

    Nigeria’s inflation for the month of May 2022, has shot up to 17.71 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics reports on Wednesday. This is 0.89 percent higher than that of April which stood at 16.82 percent. On a year-on-year basis, this is 0.22 percent points lower compared to...