The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, to immediately halt the signing and implementation of a trade partnership with the United Kingdom (UK), which allows UK lawyers to practice within Nigeria. A motion by 49 lawmakers today, pointed to recent reports and public outcry, over an alleged e...
The United Nations voiced alarm today after recent mass kidnappings in Nigeria of hundreds of children and others, calling for investigations to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice. Criminal gangs often carry out mass kidnappings in northwest Nigeria, targeting schools, villages and highways where they can quickly snatch large numbe...
•Tinubu The grisly horror of broad day light mass massacre; multiple schoolchildren abductions, unmitigated terror and the hunger pang swilling across Nigeria, has finally converged to set aflame a nation on the tenterhooks. This is the damning fate of Africa’s most populous nation when last week Thursday morning, 286 students were taken...
•Niger-Nigeria border President Bola Tinubu has ordered the reopening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with Niger Republic in compliance of the directive by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a statement today. He said the preside...
A renowned Professor of the Department of Agriculture and Environmental Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Kehinde Owolarafe yesterday hinted that Nigeria is losing N94 billion to palm oil importation annually. The don dropped the hint while speaking at a one-day sensitisation workshop with the theme: “Promoting Palm Oil V...
•Anyaoku All is set for a national dialogue to commemorate 10 years anniversary of the 2014 National Confab and to set a popular agenda for the constitution review process of the federal government. The dialogue organised in honour of the late Prof Ben Nwabueze SAN, CON, is scheduled to hold next week Monday, March 18, […]
Muslims in various parts of Nigeria are observing this year’s Ramadan fasting in the midst of heatwave, high cost of living and power outages. Despite these challenges, Muslims are obligated to fast every day from dawn to sunset during the entire month of Ramadan by abstaining from sex, food, drink and smoking, reports Daily Trust. […]...
•Abbas Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen said today, Monday, March 11, that Nigeria was in dire need of divine intervention now more than ever before. The speaker congratulated Muslims in Nigeria and across the world for witnessing another Ramadan, urging them to pray for their country, reports The Nation. The Ramadan fas...
•Nigerian doctors The federal government yesterday disclosed that 55,000 licensed doctors are in the country to attend to the growing population of patients following the exodus of health professionals to hospitals and health facilities abroad. It said in the last five years, the country lost about 15,000 to 16,000 doctors to the Japa syndrome...
•Tinubu The Secretary General of Jama’atu Nasir Islam (JNI), Professor Khalid Abubakar Aliyu as well as the President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Archbishop Daniel C. Okoh, have noted that the increasing rate of hunger and insecurity in the country is worrisome. They made the observation at the 6th Annual Inter-Faith Peace Confere...
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