The President of Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan on Friday said President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2023 appropriation bill on Tuesday, January 3 2023. The Senate President dropped the hint while speaking to journalists after meeting behind closed-doors with the President at the presidential villa, Abuja. He said the issue of the President’s recent […]
Operatives of Ogun State command of Nigeria Police in the early hours of Friday have arrested two brothers, Ayomide Babatunde and Gbenga Babatunde for kidnapping a woman and her nine years old son for ritual purpose. The command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State […]
Award winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has been conferred with a chieftaincy title in Abba Anambra State. Abba is her hometown. She was on Friday honoured with the title of Odeluwa Abba. The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo and other well known dignitaries attended the ceremony. Disclosing this a Facebook user, Uche Nworah, said […]
Imagine getting through a year like 2022 without music. What would we have done amid the constant frustration of steady food price hikes, fuel scarcity, and floods? Thankfully, that hypothetical dystopia is not our reality! Our favourite artists came through with their carefully crafted records, and with that came an entire spectrum of emotions […]
The Nigerian Army has described the abduction and assault of P.P. Johnson, identified as a lieutenant in the army, as “dehumanising”. Johnson was said to have been visiting her grandmother in Imo state when she was abducted on December 26. A video of a woman stripped naked had, thereafter, gone viral on social media […]
Civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, urged Imo State Police Command to explain to Nigerians how come two sets of suspected killers were said to have killed Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, an adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, in Owerri, Imo State, over a year and half. Gulak […]
2022 witnessed a devastating decline in journalists’ safety, as 66 journalists and media workers worldwide were killed in connection with their profession, according to International Press Institute (IPI) data. This figure marks a steep increase from the total of 45 journalists killed in 2021. Spiraling attacks against journalists in Mexico as well as Russia’s […]
The education sector was mostly on news in the better part of the year – 2022 following the long strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in February 14 due to failure of the federal government to implement the 2009 agreement with the union and other demands bordering on welfare, infrastructures […]
The second term bid of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is being threatened by the continued insistence of the G-5 governor to work against former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Makinde is the only first-term governor among the quintet – Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) […]
The military joint task force, code-named Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), says it has destroyed 37 militant camps and over 1,883 illegal oil refining sites in the Niger Delta region in 2022. The OPDS Commander, Rear Admiral Aminu Hassan, who disclosed this on Friday while highlighting the achievements and activities of the joint operation, said […]
