archiveApril 5, 2023

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has refuted an online report credited to him that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units. Making clarification on Wednesday, in Washington DC, while reacting to the report published on...

Nobel Laureate Professor Prof. Wole Soyinka has said he is concerned by the alleged complaint by him of people not following “instructions”. In a statement on Wednesday, Soyinka said he was not a member of the Labour Party, hence couldn’t have given ‘instructions’ to ‘Obidients’. ‘Obidients’ is a sobriquet for...

A report titled ‘Global Economic Outlook’ by KPMG, the professional services firm, has indicated that Nigeria’s unemployment rate will rise further to 40.6 per cent in 2023. It said the figure is based on its estimates. “Unemployment is expected to continue to be a major challenge in 2023 due to...

  The Senate on Wednesday adjourned plenary till April 25, 2023 to allow lawmakers observe Easter and Eid-El-Fitr holidays. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, made the announcement shortly before end of plenary in Abuja. He said the period would enable law makers to participate in their various religious activities as...

  Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected unopposed for a third term as president of UEFA at a meeting of European football’s governing body in Lisbon on Wednesday. The 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, first elected in 2016 following the downfall of Frenchman Michel Platini, will remain in the role until 2027. Ceferin’s re-election...

The Federal Government has declared Friday 7 and Monday 10, April 2023 as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate...

The Federal Government has approved the sum of N320,345,040, 835 as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Sonny Echono, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday, during the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of...