Beyond the Headlines
The House of Representatives is expected to commence debate on the general principle of a bill that seeks to remove all forms of immunity clauses conferred on the President, Vice President, State Governors and Deputy Governors in the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The private member bill which passed through First reading on the floor of […]
Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on security operatives to leave the popular Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho alone, saying he has learnt his lessons. The monarch in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari made available by his spokesperson, Alli Ibrahim on Friday disclosed that […]
The Chancellor, Anchor University, Lagos, Pastor William Kumuyi, says Nigeria and other African countries must empower the younger generation to usher in the desired transformation in the nearest future. Kumuyi made this assertion at the maiden convocation ceremony and awards of first degrees and prizes on Friday in Lagos. The convocation ceremony was tagged: “The […]
deal for the return, this year, of more than 130,000 Nigerian refugees, Niger’s president Mohamed Bazoum said Friday. “We have set a deadline of the month of November-December for all the refugees from Nigeria, who are in the Diffa region (of southeast Niger), to return home, it is more than 130,000 people,” Bazoum told reporters […]
Geoff Makhubo, the mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, has died after contracting COVID-19. Mlimandlela Ndamase, the spokesman of the city, said Makhubo was hospitalised after testing positive for the infection in June. He said the mayor later succumbed to the infection. Makhubo was 53 years old. According to South Africa’s Sunday Times, Eunice Mgcina, acting […]
Two mobile policemen and two middle- aged women were killed and several others injured when bandits attacked Komponi Bobi in Mariga local government area of Niger state. The Nation gathered the bandits attacked Makura village around 10 pm on Thursday and moved to three other communities before Friday morning. It was learnt the bandits came […]
It was a cascade of tears, whimpering sobs and free flow of emotions on Friday afternoon as the remains of renowned televangelist and founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, were lowered six feet beneath the ground. The 57-year-old was buried on the premises of his church in Lagos State. […]
The Vice-Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Samuel Kayode, popularly known as Ekpo Kinkin, has been killed at the Agboju area of Lagos State. According to reports, Ekpo who was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was at a rally organised by the party at Oriade Local Development Area […]
This is certainly not the best of times for the Niger Delta Development Commission, as its corporate headquarters in Port Harcourt, was sealed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Although the reason behind the sealing could not be immediately ascertained as some staff of the commission seen outside the gate declined comments on the development. […]
The Imo state government yesterday named the areas it recovered 43 oil wells from Rivers State, saying that 22 oil wells were recovered from Mgbede Field in Egbema, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area and 21 oil wells from the Akri Field in Oguta Local Government Area in Imo The government disclosed to newsmen in Owerri, through […]
