Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says political will and action are key to transforming the country’s population into an asset. While speaking on Friday at the Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe symposium in Lagos, Obasanjo expressed worry over the country’s growing population, especially the unemployed youths. The former president said owing to unemployment and the inability to manage the […]
… There was jubilation in Abuja on Friday as Nigerians at home and in the diaspora called on Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel to contest the 2023 presidential elections in order to replicate his industrialization policy and use his creative financial and economic ingenuity to salvage the Nigerian dwindling and almost collapsing economy. […]
Many State Governors across the country have asked Nigerians to be Christ-like as Christians across the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Saturday. Most of the messages were communicated via official statements obtained by Channels Television. In his statement, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak said the Christmas season brings back good memories of […]
The senate has confirmed Muazu Sambo as minister-designate. The upper legislative chamber confirmed his nomination after screening him for about an hour on Tuesday. Sambo is expected to be inaugurated as a minister following his confirmation by the senate. ‘I’LL CRACK ISSUES HINDERING MAMBILLA PROJECT’ While he was being screened by the senate, Sambo said […]
Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked Bisi Akande, a former governor of Osun state, to withdraw his recently released autobiography, ‘My Participations’. The book has elicited reactions from political stakeholders, including Olagunsoye Oyinlola, former governor of Osun, and Ayo Adebanjo, acting leader of Afenifere, who have denied claims made […]
Operatives of the Ogun Police Command have arrested one Pastor Peter Taiwo of Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, the state capital, and his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Taiwo, over alleged rape of a 16-year-old chorister of the church. The couple were arrested on Friday following a complaint lodged at Adatan divisional police headquarters […]
A couple and two students were on Monday night killed during a car racing contest embarked upon by some students of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State. Daily Trust gathered that the incident occurred around 9pm at Ijalala Junction inside the university campus when the couples were heading home. Daily Trust gathered that the incident […]
THE crisis of leadership in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, took a turn for the worse, yesterday, following the purported disbandment of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, by one of the support groups in the party, the Progressive Youth Movement, PYM. Consequently, the movement named its leader, Prince […]
A member of the Deeper Life Bible Church at Owalusi area of Iwaro Oka in Akoko Southwest Local Government Area (LGA) has been hacked to death. The woman, simply identified as Mrs. Omode, was said to have been killed by unidentified men in front of the church building. She was said to have been on […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared war against methamphetamine consumers in the South-East and its environs. Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, the Anambra State capital. Describing youth consumption of the drug known as Mkpurummiri in […]
