An aspirant for national secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Umar Tsauri, has said that the party would regain power in Kastina in 2019 general elections. Tsauri expressed the optimism in an interview with newsmen in Abuja shortly after submitting his nomination form for the race, at the party’s National Secretariat. He said that…
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The Anambra Central Senatorial re-run elections will hold on January 13, 2018, so the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. INEC National Commission, Mr Solomon Soyebi, revealed this to Channels Television on Thursday during his appearance on Politics Today.
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From Paul Osuyi, Asaba DELTA State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has advocated the need for more women to be encouraged to hold elective positions. Okowa made the call during the campaign rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Ika South, Ika North-East and Aniocha North local government areas of the state preparatory for the…
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Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awk Oko community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State and country home of the late former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme was Thursday shut down as commercial and social activities were paralyzed in the town. The polytechnic town was a shadow of itself as all the shops, markets, artisan…
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From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja The federal government, has said it would not relent in its determination to rebuild the northeast of the country. Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Khadija Bukar Abba-Ibrahim, gave the assurance during a bilateral meeting with the President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dr Bandar M.H. Hajjar, in Istanbul, Turkey, on…
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From Kemi Yesufu, Abuja It was a case of buck-passing at the investigative hearing conducted by the House of Representatives adhoc committee investigating allegations of the re-appearance and reinstatement of the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina into the federal civil service. The 2-day hearing by the…
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From Kemi Yesufu, Abuja The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Telecommunications to conduct investigation into the takeover of Etisalat by 9Mobile. The committee which is to report back to the House in eight weeks is to ascertain what led to the exit of Etisalat. The decision of the House followed the…
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The Federal Government on Thursday signed an agreement with the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ) to set up a Nigerian–German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration. Mr Bolaji Adebiyi, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, said at the signing ceremony in Abuja that the intervention was aimed at addressing the issue…
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Shelland bio-bean are helping to power some of London’s buses using a biofuel made partly from waste coffee grounds, a development that has triggered renewed challenge to Nigerian beneficiaries of Shell’sLiveWIRE programme to join in the innovative search for bright energy ideas. This latest Shell-bio-bean collaboration is part of Shell’s #makethefuture energy relay, which supports…
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From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja The Oba of Benin Omo N’oba Ewuare ll has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of Edo State in tackling insecurity in the state as the governor, Godwin Obaseki is clearly overwhelmed. He also called on the relevant authorities to reflect on the roles played by…
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NAN A chieftain of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Mr. John Ntang, on Thursday, urged the youth be active in the electoral process with a view to electing leaders of their choice. Ntang gave the advice in an interview, in Lagos. He said that the youths represent the active population in the country, with a…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi State. He is in the state on a two-day state working visit. President Buhari was welcomed at the airport by the governors of Bauchi and Adamawa states, Mr. Muhammed Abubakar and Mr. Mohammed Jibrilla. He was also welcomed by some ministers at Sir Abubakar…
NAN The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), on Thursday, is to begin work with stakeholders to check the high prevalence of HIV among key populations including homosexuals. The NACA Programme Officer, Ms Favor Iyamu, made this pledge at an interactive media meeting organised by the International Centre for Advocacy on Right to…
There are indications that a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Sheriff will, on Thursday, return to the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State, was a founding member of the APC before he defected to the PDP and served as a national chairman. His tenure…
NAN The United Nations, on Thursday, urged the Plateau State Government to gazette the Gender Equal Opportunity (GEO) law to facilitate its implementation The law, which was passed by the Plateau State House of Assembly in 2015, is yet to take effect because it has not been gazetted. Top government sources said that some sections…
Omotayo Edubi, Abuja Robert Rihmeek Williams popularly known as Meek Mill was born May 6, 1987, in South Philadelphia, he is a rapper and songwriter. He grew up with his mother and his sister, their fiscal condition was poor so she cut hair and did other jobs to support the family. She also sometimes stole products…
Wole Balogun, Ado-Ekiti Esu is the Yoruba fashion of Satan in Christian and Jewish belief. It is generally known as the Devil across the western cultures, but in Yoruba cosmology, he is a god of mischief, created by Eledumare, Almighty God, to serve as an examiner/task master for humans. The Yoruba worldview does not portray…
Okwe Obi and Nwakaudu Charity, Abuja Vehicular movement was, on Wednesday grounded sequel to an accident which claimed three lives under the popular Banex bridge in Abuja. Eye-witnesses reported that a tiper loaded with sand, lost control and crushed three persons to dead at Banex Bridge, in Abuja while trying to avoid a police van….
Residents in Aba cry out over dumpsite Okey Sampson, Aba You’re going to Good Morning market located at the Ngwa Road end of the Aba River popularly known as Waterside. For convenience sake, you decided to use the farther distance of Opobo Road in Ogbor Hill. At Emelogu junction, the air around whiffed. What could…
Bianca Iboma In keeping with its humanitarian gesture and commitment to the welfare of persons living with albinism, the Onome Akinlolu Majaro Foundation has taken its community support higher by offering full scholarship to a blind undergraduate student of University Of Lagos, Akoka living with albinism, Victor Kalu. Co-founder of the Foundation, Onome Okagbare Majaro,…
Henry Akubuiro, Lagos Perhaps more than any other group in the last three decades, the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), has contributed to the promotion of reading and discovery of new literary talents in Nigeria. Founded in 1981 by the legendary novelist, Chinua Achebe, the association has through, its routine creative writing workshops, award of…
•Jobless parents of newborn quadruplets seek help, beg Enugu govt, firms for employment Felix Ikem, Nsukka For the family of Mr. and Mrs. Uchenna Nnadi, November 16, 2017, will remain an unforgettable day. It was the day the couple, from Amikwu Village, Ohom Orba, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State, got a memorable blessing….
Xinhua/NAN Education ministers from African countries are to evaluate status of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on education in the continent at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. The April 25 to April 27 Pan Africa High level Conference on Education to be held under the auspices of UNESCO and African Union, will bring together African…
Christian Agadibe Daniel Kanayo Daniel popularly known as DKD turns ladies’ heads whenever he steps out. This is because he’s not only handsome; he’s also macho with a sexy six-pack. To attest to this, one of his female fans went gaga recently. On sighting the actor, she just grabbed and spanked his butt… without offering…
I have been wondering what could be possibly fueling ethnic and sectarian violence in Nigeria one night. As the night became increasingly serene and opaque, I began to wonder why many well-meaning Nigerians seem to be indifferent and go about their business during a brief absence of brutality only to be hyperventilated at hearing the…
How truly sincere and dedicated we are to the desire to see tourism boom and grow in Nigeria will need another summit to expose our failings. For two and half decades of reporting this beat, one finds it very embarrassing that our talks have never in any way matched the desired platforms needed to transform…
Club moss is a low-growing, creeping, evergreen plant. It has dense spirals of bright, yellow-green leaves and a one-metre long stem that sprawls on the ground. Spores are produced in two to three cylindrical cones and are best when collected either in July or August. It is available in the temperate regions of the Northern…
For long I had wanted to write about this, but whenever I tried to hit my keypad, my fingers got cramped. I guess it was the incredible nature of this discuss that slowed me down. Lately, I was invited by a colleague to perform an appendectomy on a young man. Had chastised him because I…
I have been wondering what could be possibly fueling ethnic and sectarian violence in Nigeria one night. As the night became increasingly serene and opaque, I began to wonder why many well-meaning Nigerians seem to be indifferent and go about their business during a brief absence of brutality only to be hyperventilated at hearing the…
‘The moment the prerogative of violence slips away from the hands of government into an unknown body, there is no government…we have been challenged with Boko Haram for so long and now it is (the) so called herdsmen…” – Dr.Ahmadu Ali, former Education Minister, ex-PDP Chairman. The unnerving part of…
As I contemplate my lecture in a few days in Paris on leadership at the University of Schiller, as part of the graduation of the university, where I have been invited to speak, I am saddened by how hard it is to find home-grown examples on good leadership. This is an issue of grave importance…
Culture is internally too intricate to be understood from the outside. This perhaps is one of the critical messages of Professor Chinua Achebe. That perhaps again explains why his novels, especially Things Fall Apart, are such global hits. Much of the world came to see how finely woven a society is. The point is that…
As I write this piece, I am confined to a bed in a private hospital in Abuja. The question then is, how did a strong energetic man find himself confined like a helpless being. In life, things happen without your knowledge but with you awareness. We had closed from church service and heading home when along the Kubwa expressway, my…
Femi, if Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (retd), former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has any remorse, let him first apologise for his past deeds, including Odi and Zaki Biam massacres, when he held sway as the Minister of Defence under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in his first term. Since the killings started, he, former Head of…
What transpired on the floor of the Senate last Wednesday can only shock the uninitiated. On that day, Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central in the National Assembly, invaded the Senate chambers with thugs. They threw chairs freely, broke legs and then took away the mace, the legislature’s symbol of authority. The scene was…
