Following the clamour by some Nigerians and political groups for the zoning of the presidency to the South-East, come 2023, a former Kaduna lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has said that the only way the southern region of Nigeria can produce the president is for the All Progressives Congress or the People’s Democratic Party to pick […]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said that ongoing investigation of a billionaire drug baron, Chief Afam Mallinson Ukatu, has led to the discovery of how the suspect imported into Nigeria in a single month, October 2019, two containers containing 1,284 cartons of Tramadol with market value of over N22billion. The Agency […]
The US supreme court is reportedly set to vote to overturn the law that legalised abortion. According to a report by Politico, this was disclosed in a leaked draft majority opinion written by Samuel Alito, a supreme court justice. After an initial vote among the justices subsequent to an oral argument, one is assigned […]
The previous month was filled with many dramas with April 29 recording the most. Some of these events were unfortunate as scores were lost while others were general scenarios that left many aghast and furious. Below is a list of 19 events collated through the month of April 2022: Ø Popular actress Nkechi Blessing […]
The Chairman Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, has rejected the idea of Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the Senate caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Daily Trust had reported how Lawan’s allies in the parliament including Senator Yusuf Yusuf (APC, Taraba), Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, […]
‘ The press is a critical agent for the protection of democracy and development and must be supported to enable them to effectively discharge their constitutional duties as the watchdog of the society, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said. It observed that Nigerian journalists fought very hard to achieve the nation’s democratic status […]
In April 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the national minimum wage bill into law. The president’s decision came after the national assembly passed the bill approving N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. Speaking on the new law, Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (senate), said it had […]
All passengers onboard an aircraft have been rescued after its tyres caught fire after a planned trip out of Rivers State was aborted. The incident which involved an aircraft operated by Dana Airlines Limited occurred on Monday in Port Harcourt, the state capital. A spokesman for the airline, Kingsley Ezenwa, who confirmed the incident […]
Russian clubs have been banned by UEFA from participating in the Champions League and all other European competitions next season, European football’s governing body announced on Monday. “Russia will have no affiliated clubs participating in UEFA club competitions in the 2022/23 season,” it said in a statement. Russian clubs and national teams were suspended […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) branch, has said they will not resume academic activities, until the Federal Government resolve all grievances with the national body of the union. This is coming after the management of the institution last week issued a circular stating that full academic activities resume […]
