The Labour Party (LP) has said that the 2024 budget passed on Saturday by the the National Assembly failed to prioritise welfare and security of Nigerians but instead focused more on funding the luxury of the political elites. National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Obiora Ifoh, said this on Sunday in a 2024 New […]
DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has won a second term in office with a landslide victory, according to provisional results announced Sunday, in a vote opposition leaders have dismissed as a “sham”. Provisional results from the single-round presidential ballot, declared by the country’s electoral commission Ceni, showed that Tshisekedi had won 73 percent of […]
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited Bismarck Rewane on Sunday said the national grid collapsed 12 times in 2023. He stated this on “2023: Year Of Transition,” a Channels TV’s Special End-Of-Year Programme to mark the end of the year. “The national grid collapsed 12 times in 2023,” […]
Rt Hon Edison Ehie has resigned as a member representing Ahoada East in the Rivers State House of Assembly and also the speaker of a group of lawmakers. His notice of resignation was contained in a letter dated 29th December 2023 and addressed to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor […]
Inmates of Ikoyi Prison are calling for the removal of Julius Ogueri, the deputy controller of the correctional facility, and Ebomuche Anselem, his orderly, for constantly extorting, threatening, and mistreating them. FIJ learned that long-term inmates fear Ogueri’s heavy-handed approach may lead to a protest, which could lead to the indiscriminate killing of inmates […]
A former Palestinian Authority minister was killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike on his home in the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency and Hamas health ministry said. Youssef Salama, the 68-year-old former minister of religious affairs in the Palestinian Authority, was killed in a strike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in […]
As major countries of the world await with eagerness to celebrate 2024, a few nations have already begun their celebrations. China, New Zealand, Australia and Kiribati were one of the first nations to ring in 2024 as ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza cast a pall over celebrations and heightened tensions across parts of […]
Traders lamented bitterly after the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) early Sunday, December 31, began the planned demolition of the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA) shopping complex, situated in Ikeja area of Lagos. The Nation learnt four excavators had arrived at the shopping complex by midnight with heavily armed police officers. In a video by […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Sunday, raised an alarm over the health situation of it’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. According to a statement by IPOB’s Publicity Secretary,Emma Powerful, the group stated that Nnamdi Kanu needs urgent and specialized medical emergency treatment to avert serious outcomes. The statement reads, “The report reaching IPOB […]
Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat has been found dead in Kenya, police said Sunday, with local media reports saying he had been murdered. The Kenyan-born Kiplagat, 34, had represented Uganda internationally in the 3,000m steeplechase, including several Olympic Games and World Championships. His body was found in a car on Saturday night on the outskirts […]
