Personal Assistant on Special Duties to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Kamorudeen Yusuf, has announced the launching of a scholarship programme benefiting 40 students at Markaz Agege, a renowned Islamic educational institution in Lagos State. The announcement came during Yusuf’s visit to the institution, where he was welcomed by Sheik HabibullahiContinue Reading
BY JAMES AKINOLA The Acting National Chairman, the Peoples Democratic Party, Umar Damagum, stated that the party played a key role in shaping the political career of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso. During an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Tuesday, DamagumContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Naval outpost in Onitsha, Anambra State, has donated food items worth millions of naira to Madonna Angels Orphanage Home in Atani, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state through its ‘Food Rhapsody’ initiative. The event, which is a non-kinetic approach by the Nigerian NavyContinue Reading
The requirements for the extradition of pro-Biafran agitator, Simon Ekpa, to Nigeria have been forwarded to the Government of Finland, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa (CDS), has said. “Well, I’m sure he is cooling off somewhere,” the defence chief said on Channels Television‘s 2024 Year-In-Review programme onContinue Reading
BY FRONTLINE REPORTERS In 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration introduced bold reforms to address Nigeria’s long-standing economic and social challenges. Key initiatives include approving an increase in the minimum wage from ₦30,000 to ₦70,000 and signing the Student Loan Bill into law, among others. Here is a list ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI. ADOLPHUS DURU Oil marketers and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority have said the prices of refined petroleum products are to drop further following the commencement of operations at the Warri Refining and Petrochemicals Company Limited. Dealers in the downstream oil sector said competition inContinue Reading
BY OUR REPORTER Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday, presented N1.18tn budgetary estimate for 2025 to the factional state House of Assembly comprising three lawmakers. The development was a repeat of last year’s action by Fubara, who shunned the 27-member factional Assembly loyal to his predecessor and estranged godfather,Continue Reading
The death toll from a road accident in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 71 after a vehicle carrying a wedding party veered into a river, a local official said. The truck careered into the water at around 5:30 pm local time (1430 GMT) on Sunday some 300 kilometresContinue Reading
President Bola Tinubu has expressed his profound joy at the re-opening of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga on Monday, described the development as another remarkable achievement in 2024 thatContinue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU A community leader and Vice Chairman of Obunagu Achalla village in Enugu Agidi community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ozo Ozoemena Okeke, has alleged a plot by some of his kinsmen to kill him saying he was kidnapped twice because he refused to sellContinue Reading