archiveAugust 2022

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given reasons why it is taking time in evacuating over 300 stranded Nigerians in the United Arab Emirates. The Ministry said it was working with the Nigerian Mission alongside the UAE authorities to assist stranded Nigerians in the country for various reasons, ranging...

  Human Rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, has declared support for striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to continue with its industrial action until all their demands are met. He stated that if the nation’s educational sector was working, no politicians would choose to send their kids to schools abroad...

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has challenged other party flag bearers who condemn his statistics on Nigeria to present their own argument. Obi threw the challenge while he and the national leadership of his party received Valentine Ozigbo, a business mogul, who was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

  Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has reacted to the kidnap of four Catholic Reverend Sisters in Imo State by gunmen, describing the abduction of the Catholic nuns as unfortunate and tragic. In a tweet, the former lawmaker urged Nigerians to pray for the Reverend Sisters. The armed men...

  The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has introduced the Rotavirus vaccine to Routine Immunisation Schedule to avert over 110,000 deaths in children under the age of five in the next 10 years in Nigeria. Rotavirus is a...

  Labour Party (LP) Vice Presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, on Tuesday, lamented the complete lack of will on the part of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to address numerous challenges confronting the country. Baba-Ahmed, who featured in a Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily, said the ruling government had completely...

An NGO, Life After Abuse Foundation (LAAF) has called for sensitisation and reorientation of men and boys’ mindset on the protection of equal rights for women and girls. The foundation’s Founder, Ms Halima Layeni, made the call at a lecture organised by LAAF in collaboration with Lagos State University Medical...

  The 36 state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, have unveiled the identities of the six consultants requesting for the payment of the controversial $418,953,690.59 Paris Club refund. The NGF spokesman, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, released the list on Sunday in a statement entitled: ‘NGF’s response to...

Paul Ibe, the Media Adviser to Atiku Abubakar has said that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not handover federal universities to state governments if he becomes president in 2023. Ibe who is media aide to the former Vice President, said the Atiku camp has noticed...

    The Nigerian bourse began the week transaction on a losing note on Monday as the Market Capitalisation recorded a loss N13.06 billion to close the day trading at N26.614 trillion as against N26.628 trillion it started the day with. The negative performance was majorly driven by selloffs in...