Beyond the Headlines
The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Ali Pantami, Wednesday declined comment on the stand of the Academic Staff Union of Universities against his promotion as a professor of Cybersecurity by the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. ASUU had on Monday described the professorship awarded to Pantami as illegal. Asked by State House reporters […]
THE Federal Government, yesterday, raised hope that the lingering fuel crisis and its attendant queues at filling stations will ultimately disappear next week. Already, the government said that it has taken delivery of 2.1 billion litres for distribution nationwide to normalise the situation. The government disclosed this at a meeting with the House of […]
The Police in Akwa Ibom have confirmed the killing of Chief Bassey Emah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. “We received report that gunmen killed Emah,’’ SP Odiko Macdon, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Uyo. Emah […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to quit his position as the minister of petroleum resources. The opposition party also demanded the “immediate sack” of Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum resources. The PDP said Buhari has failed “woefully” in his duties as the minister of petroleum resources following […]
Uduak Akpan, the first accused person in the murder of Iniubong Umoren, a graduate of Philosophy from the University of Uyo, has told an Akwa Ibom State High Court presided over by Justice Bassey Nkanang that he was tortured to sign a statement given to him at the Department of State Services (DSS). At […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says Kaduna State is doing very well many areas in spite of the challenges facing it. He said this in a statement Wednesday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, to felicitate with Governor Nasir El-Rufa’I on his 62nd birthday. Four many year now, Kaduna has being the den of Bandits and field […]
Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, members of the Nigerian Youth Union, NYU, on Wednesday, advised Nigerians on the qualities to look out for before adopting or voting for any politician to become Nigeria’s next president. The youths also vowed to reject any presidential candidate who is above 60 years of age. Ahead of […]
Ahead of 2023 general elections, former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said that for Nigeria to overcome her economic challenges, Nigerians must ensure the enthronement of visionary leaders in coming elections. Obi, who was running mate of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar during the 2019 presidential election, made this known in a series […]
The U.S. Government has characterised Russia’s announcement that it had partially withdrawn troops to deescalate the Ukraine crisis as false. In the last several days, Russia had increased its presence along the Ukrainian border by as many as 7,000 troops “with some arriving as recently as today,’’ a high-ranking White House official said Wednesday […]
A 31-year-old farmer, Charles Soglo has shot his wife, Doris Amoah in the chest and attempted to kill himself over her refusal to have sex with him. According to MyJoyOnline, the incident happened at Adansi Nyakumase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Soglo was reported to have attempted suicide thinking he had killed his […]
