Pete Edochie, Nollywood Actor, has said that an Igbo person has all it takes to deliver a strategic leadership that will transform Nigeria in 2023. Mr Edochie made this known during a BBC Igbo programme highlighting concerns about political marginalisation of Ndigbo in the affairs of Nigeria. According to the legendary Nigerian actor, successful […]
Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed that the National Assembly be shut down to force the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to wake up to his responsibility of ensuring protection of life and property in Nigeria. This is just as a lawmaker called for the resignation or sacking of the […]
Polytechnics (ASUP) has issued a one month ultimatum to government for resumption of strike action. The union had suspended its industrial action which ran for 61 days in June 2021 after reaching an agreement with the government. Addressing journalists in Yola at the end of its 102nd National Executive Council meeting, ASUP’s national president, […]
The federal government has extended the deadline for the ongoing national identification number (NIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM) integration exercise by “a few days”. Following the last extension, the exercise was meant to end on March 31 (today). In a statement issued on Thursday, Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, urged […]
A member of the Imo state House of Assembly, Obinna Okwara, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress. Okwara, who represents Nkwerre state Constituency, was among the six lawmakers whom the speaker, Kennedy Ibe, suspended in December for what he termed unparliamentary conduct. Okwara who spoke to newsmen on […]
A Nigerian man has been sentenced to federal prison on Thursday for federal fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas. The man, Sobanke Idris Sunday Adereti, 24, was sentenced to 33 months by U.S. District Judge, Jeremy D. Kernodle, after he pleaded guilty to passport fraud and attempted bank fraud. doctorate degrees No […]
Mohammed Bazoum, Niger Republic president, says African countries battling terrorism need to come up with new strategies for dealing with the challenges. Bazoum spoke with state house correspondents after his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja. The Niger Republic president said the West African region is battling an increased level of […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it will take over Abia which is currently under the control of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2023 general elections. The party said it would equally take over Anambra state in the 2025 governorship election. APC only controls Ebonyi and Imo states in the […]
The Nigerian Army has accused the soldier purportedly abandoned by his colleagues in a viral video of cowardice. It said it was the soldier who absconded during operation with his colleagues and not the other way round. The Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, noted the video was a […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Branch, has threatened to initiate the process of withdrawing the degree certificate of the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa, as an alumnus of the university. This withdrawal, the union said, was been considered after Inuwa’s submission that “the University Transparency and […]
