•Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu The University of Cambridge has announced a Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President” on the University’s website...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday ordered the immediate release of Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s president who has been held captive since the coup that overthrew him on July 26, and that of his family. The Court “orders the defendant (the military authorities in Niamey, editor’s note) to [&hell...
•Bai Koroma Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma reported to police in Freetown today to be questioned over what the government has called an attempted coup at the end of November. Koroma, who led the West African nation for 11 years until 2018, arrived at around 10:00 am local time (1000 GMT) at the […]
•Shettima Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, knocked the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), over his comments on plans to spend N15 billion on the residence of Vice President Kashim Shettima. The minister had pledged to complete the accommodation initiated by the administration of former...
An elder statesman and a former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, says Nigeria’s president does not have to be the minister of petroleum, adding that it is important to appoint a minister to oversee the ministry. His position is in support of former central bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who earlier said that the […]
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has charged members of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) to always uphold the virtues of honesty, integrity and trust as components of their practice. Dr. Obasa said these three virtues, if practised with a deep sense of patriotism, would [&hell...
•Osifo (l) and a brutalised Ajaero (r) The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, has said that his colleague in the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, was not in Imo State on November 1, 2023 for politics but to fight for the rights of aggrieved workers in the state. Osifo, who […]
•Ajaero Medical experts at the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, are currently battling to save the eyes of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero. Ajaero was said to have been arrested by men of the Imo State Police Command while leading a protest in the state yesterday, reports The PUNCH. But the […]
•NLC President Joe Ajaero The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the police authorities in Imo State of brutalising its President, Joe Ajaero which has left him hospitalised. It was earlier reported how Ajaero was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Ajaero was picked up from the NLC State Council Secretariat by heavily armed [&h...
•NLC President Ajaero and Gov Uzodinma In the wake of the reported arrest of the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Joe Ajaero today in Owerri, capital of Imo State, by security agents, The United Action Front of Civil Society, an umbrella body of civil societies in the country, has warned that nothing […]

