The United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Germany, France, and the EU delegation have issued a joint statement expressing their concerns regarding election-related violence and aggression in Sierra Leone leading up to the upcoming elections. Paragraph 2: In their statement, they call upon all individuals to refrain from engaging in violence, show respect for the political…
Senators Amos Yohanna (PDP Adamawa), Abass Iya (PDP Adamawa) and Ikra Bilbis (PDP Zamfara) have defected from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the senators’ defection was announced in separate letters read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Wednesday. Yohanna, in…
Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, on Tuesday mourned Dr Pascal Dozie, Founder of Diamond Bank and a renowned Nigerian entrepreneur and business morgul. Obi a former governor on Anambra, in his condolence message posted on his X handle, expressed his sadness over the demise of the business mogul….
Rev. Fr. Eugene Ejiofor has urged journalists to put God first in the course of their professional responsibilities by embracing constant prayer. He made the call during a thanksgiving Mass organised by the Anambra State chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, on Sunday. The service was…
Malam Ahmad Bamalli, the Emir of Zazzau, has called for a revisit of the abandoned Kano Muslim Personnel Law, to enhance women’s rights in Northern Nigeria. The royal father made the call for the revisit of the abandoned Muslim Personnel Law when a delegation from the Development Research Project Center (DRPC) paid him a courtesy…
Sen Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe has said that the current crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would not be the end of the party. Atom-Jarigbe, who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas, expressed this optimism at a town hall meeting in Obudu on Sunday. He represents Cross River North in the National Assembly. Agom-Jarigbe, who…
Sen. Saliu Mustapha, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, has condemned the recent violent bandit attacks on Woro and Nuku communities in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara. In a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Ilorin,. Mustapha said he received the distressing news of the violent attacks on innocent civilians with deep sadness….
The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, says the Federal Government is set to establish a National Paramilitary Academy. Tunji-Ojo said this on Wednesday when the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Malam Ali Muhammad Ali, led a delegation on a courtesy visit to his office in Abuja. The minister said that…
The Kano State Government has urged the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to avoid duplicating its Kano Elders Advisory Council (KEAC), established earlier this year. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Waiya, the government stressed that Governor Abba Yusuf had launched the KEAC in January 2024 to serve as…
President Bola Tinubu has emphasised that purposeful investment in young people is essential for national progress, insisting that access to quality education must not be limited by financial hardship. The President made this known through the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Sa’id-Ahmad, at the 34th Convocation and 43rd Founders’ Day ceremony of the…
