Police begin manhunt for killers of three officers in Kogi
The Police have begun a manhunt for gunmen who killed three of its officers in Kogi State. Mr Miller Dantawaye, the Commissioner of Police in the state, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, on Wednesday in Lokoja. Dantawaye explained that the manhunt followed an attack on a patrol […]
INEC recognises Mark-led ADC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially recognised the Sen. David Mark-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), as of Wednesday, the commission uploaded the names of Mark and other new NWC members on its website. Among those listed to replace the […]
Tinubu to address world leaders at UN General Assembly Sept. 24
President Bola Tinubu is to address the 80th Session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, September 24. A revised provisional list of speakers obtained by the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from the UN headquarters in New […]
Tinubu orders FEC panel to crash food prices
President Bola Tinubu has ordered a Federal Executive Council committee to further crash prices of food items across the country. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, while presenting a paper at a one- day capacity building workshop for journalists covering the Senate. He […]
Tinubu mourns Mrs. Fowler, icon of education and service
President Bola Tinubu has expressed sadness over the passing of Chief (Mrs.) Leila Euphemia Apinke Fowler, a lawyer, renowned educationist and founder of the Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls in Lagos. Fowler, the Yeye Mofin of Lagos and mother of Babatunde Fowler, former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), died at 92. […]
Tinubu celebrates Chief of Kagoro at 90
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated His Royal Highness, Dr Ufuwai Bonet, the Chief of Kagoro, on his 90th birthday. Dr Bonet is a first-class chief and deputy chairman of the Kaduna State Council of Chiefs and Emirs. The president joined the people of Kagoro Chiefdom, the government and the people of Kaduna State, as well […]
Green Minerals: Africa Must Speak With One Voice, Says UN At Climate Summit
By Robert Egbe Nigeria and other African countries must seize the continent’s vast reserves of critical green minerals to fuel not just the world’s clean energy transition but also its own industrial growth and prosperity, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Claver Gatete, told delegates at the Second […]
Ibru University launches scholarship for agricultural science programme
The Michael and Cecilia Ibru University (MCIU), Agbarha-Otor, Delta State, has said it will offer tuition-free Agricultural Science programmes for selected students. The programme, according to the university’s Vice Chancellor Prof Ibiyinka Fuwape, is unique, as it operates on a work-study structure, ensuring students gain hands-on, practical experience alongside theoretical learning. According to him, through […]
Rhodes-Vivour is a political scavenger hunt, without direction, says APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has described the 2023 Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate, Mr Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, as a politician with no ideology or direction. The State Party Spokesman, Mr Seye Oladejo, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos. He was reacting to Saturday’s defection of Rhodes-Vivour from LP to […]
