Tuesday April 11 2023 Displaced from homes, herdsmen extend killings to Benue IDP camp Six arrested for stripping Ekiti lady, posting video online Interim government controversy shakes polity, deepens APC, opposition rift Experts kick as 40 presidential panels gulp N20bn Peak Milk apologises to CAN over ‘offensive’ Easter advert APC kicks as northern senators […]
nday, General Secretary of CAN, Barrister Joseph Daramola, asked the company to retract the advert, tender an apology to Christians or face legal action and boycott of their products. In the controversial advert, the company used the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a metaphor to promote their product. “We find this advert to be […]
Edwin Clark, an Ijaw national leader and convener of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), says Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, should be prosecuted for spreading fake news against Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). On April 4, speaking in Washington DC during an engagement with some international media organisations, […]
Ukraine and Russia said Monday they had returned around 100 soldiers each in the latest prisoner exchange between the two warring countries. Kyiv and Moscow have periodically carried out prisoner swaps since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago. “We are returning 100 of our people,” the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff Andriy […]
The United Kingdom has placed no fewer than 54 countries including Nigeria on the red list of countries that should not be considered for recruitment by health and social care employers. This was announced in accordance with the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England. […]
THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, has frowned at the long delay by the Supreme Court of Nigeria in hearing the appeal lodged before it by the Federal Government against the decision of the Court of Appeal which acquitted their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. IPoB said the delay is worrisome because considering all the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it is ready to meet with the incoming administration of Senator Bola Tinubu to find a permanent solution to its incessant face-off with the government only on one condition — the government must show determination to handle education issues with the seriousness they deserve. Speaking […]
Some Point of Sale (PoS) operators are still charging above the usual service charge in spite of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN’s) directive. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored some PoS Points in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) satellite towns reports that they charged between N300 and N200 for N5,000 […]
Some gunmen have reportedly abducted an Anambra businessman, Mr Alexander Nwosu. Nwosu also known as ‘Uyoo’ was said to have been abducted at his hometown in Umuchu Community, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Friday, March 31 and his whereabouts are still unknown. It was gathered that the victim, […]
The Supreme Court has directed Nigeria’s electoral umpire, INEC, to act and recognise Edozie Njoku as the national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). A five-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, on 24 March, said it made a mistake in a judgement it delivered in 2021, where it […]
