President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday congratulated Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene, Senior Vice Chairman /Editor-in-Chief of Leadership Newspapers on his 60th birthday. President Tinubu appreciated Ishiekwene’s brilliant and incisive commentary and analysis on Nigeria’s politics, the economy, and society, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President’s spokesman, said in a statement. He noted that Ishiekwene’s insightful contributions and recent…
Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Lagos State has called on the impeached Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, to give peace a chance. Chairperson of IPAC in the state, Mrs Temilola Akinade, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. NAN recalls that the…
The Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says it will take stringent measures to ensure that filling stations dispense the right quantity of products to motorists in Kogi. Mr Ogbe Godwin, NMDPRA Coordinator in Kogi, made the disclosures to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lokoja. Godwin spoke after the…
EU ambassadors backed a 16th sanctions package on Russia on Wednesday, just days before the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Polish EU presidency announced. The measures set for formal adoption by foreign ministers on Monday, target captains and owners of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet vessels with murky ownership that are often…
Gov Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau has urged the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help the state in tackling the rising spate of child abuse and trafficking. Mutfwang made the call when Dr. Nuzhat Rafique, UNICEF’s Chief of Bauchi Field Office, visited him on Wednesday in Jos. The governor, who reiterated the state’s commitment to…
A policeman, Insp Nelson Otasowie, on Wednesday told an FCT High Court in Zuba that the four defendants, dressed in uniforms belonging to the Department of State Services’ (DSS) to rob their victims in Abuja. The police charged Michael Obi, Success Momoh, Bitrus Danladi as well as one Solomon Kwaghngurum, who is still at large…
Gov Abba Yusuf of Kano State has pledged to implement the recommendations of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry (JCI) on the #EndBadGovernance protest. Yusuf spoke while receiving the report from the chairman of the commission, retired Justice Lawan Mahmoud, on Wednesday in Kano. This is contained in a statement issued by his spokesperson Sunusi Dawakin…
Yahaya Yari, Chairman, Talata Mafara Local Government in Zamfara, confirmed the death of two persons following a locally made gun powder explosion that occured on Tuesday at a weekly market in Talata Mafara town. Yari, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Wednesday, said the ugly…
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, declined to grant an application filed by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu seeking to stop his planned removal as National Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Anyanwu’s motion ex-parte moved by his lawyer, Ken Njemanze, SAN, rather ordered him to put the defendants…
Uganda Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng said eight people have been discharged after recovering from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine. The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease in January after one man, a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in…
