YESTERDAY 20 August, Asagba Azinge with some Palace Chiefs visited the facility donated by Obi Nduka Elunor as the proposed Drug Addicts Rehabilitation Centre to care for drug addicts and victims. Nna Agu said his motive is to inspect and explore options for use. He then directed the Welfare and Endowment Fund Committee to examine and […]
By PATRICK ANASO FOR the first time since 2012, the people of Omor, an agrarian community in Anambra, are preparing to celebrate their New Yam Festival free from the devastation of seasonal flooding. “This year, we will celebrate our New Yam Festival without the threat of flood for the first time in 13 years,” said […]
By ANGELA ATABO MR. Abiodun Olaniyi, Project Coordinator of the Nigeria International Agriculture Expo (NIAEXPO 2025), has said that the upcoming expo will enhance Nigeria’s agribusiness potential and reinforce its standing in the global agricultural market. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday in Abuja ahead of the 7th edition of the event, Olaniyi said […]
By TIAMIYU PRUDENCE AROBANI UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the reform of global institutions to give Africa a stronger voice in decisions that affect the continent. Guterres made the call at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) underway in Yokohama, Japan. “First, we must reform the institutions of global governance […]
By MERCY NEME THE Ministry of Women Affairs, Delta State, has praised The Albino Foundation (TAF Africa) for its dedication to disability inclusion. The Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Oghenekevwe Agas, during a town hall meeting in Asaba on Wednesday, noted that the group’s advocacy was a powerful force supporting the state’s efforts. “As […]
By ADEYEMI ADEPETUN (Lagos), SODIQ OMOLAOYE AND JOEL OLADELE (Abuja) NATCOMs calls for tariff stabilisation on calls, data Subscribers decry poor telecom services, accuse NCC of inaction SOME relief may have come the way of telecom subscribers in the country following President Bola Tinubu’s decision to scrap the planned five per cent excise duty on […]
By FEMI D. OJUMU SEVERAL centuries later, the aforementioned Thucydidean quote from The Melian Dialogue is a hawkish exposition of the warring vicissitudes of insatiability, power, and annexation or forcible land acquisition, that remains relevant in contemporary times. Adam Smith’s postulation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776), adopting […]
By CHETA NWANZE THE contrasting attitudes of two prominent British politicians of ethnic minority heritage – Kemi Badenoch (of Nigerian descent) and Rishi Sunak (of Indian origin) – towards their ancestral homelands reveal much about colonialism’s enduring legacies and the complexities of national identity. While Sunak, the UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, has consistently expressed […]
By ABDURRAHMAN UMAR THE police in Katsina State on Wednesday said that the death toll from the attack on a mosque located at Unguwar Mantau Community in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state has risen to 17. The spokesman of the Katsina State Police Command, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, who confirmed this to our […]
By JOSHUA OGBOLOGUGO ENVIRONMENTAL activists from Ogoni in Rivers State have called on the Federal Government to urgently decommission all aging oil wells in Ogoniland, in line with the United Nations Environment Programme recommendations. The demand follows a fresh oil spill from Well 14 in Yola, Kpean, Khana Local Government Area, which began on 3rd […]