DELTA State Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the Federal Government for awarding oil facilities surveillance contract to a firm owned by Chief Government Ekpemupolo, an indigene of Niger Delta. He said that the award indicated that the government heeded his advice for a review of oil facilities surveillance […]
FORMER Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar met with ambassadors of the European Union (EU) to Nigerian in Abuja on Thursday. Atiku met the EU envoys to discuss his agenda with them ahead of the 2023 general elections according to the information he shared on his verified Twitter […]
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has disclosed that the final list of candidates for Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, and Governorship candidates alongside State Houses of Assembly will be published on September 20th and October 4th respectively ahead of the 2023 poll. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the […]
A consultant Neuro-psychiatrist, Dr Jimoh Adejumo, has said that economic hardship coupled with the level of insecurity in the country might likely inflict mental illness on more Nigerians. Adejumo, who works with the Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, disclosed this to Newsmen on Thursday in Lagos. According to her, these include inflation, poverty, child abuse, rape, […]
THE Nigerian Navy, Forward Operation Base, FOB, Ibaka in Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State has arrested three suspected oil thieves alongside a wooden boat laden with 19 drums of products suspected to be Premium Motor Spirit, PMS The Base Operating Officer Lt.-Cdr. Daniel Onyemaeze, who disclosed this on Thursday said the suspects […]
FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife, Rosmah Mansor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for asking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts. Mansor’s conviction is coming one week after her husband was jailed for corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. According to BBC, the 70-year-old ex-First Lady had pleaded […]
NO fewer than seven persons, lost their lives in a ghastly autocrash involving two vehicles in Ekiti State. The accident, which occurred on Wednesday evening, along Iluomoba-Aisegba highway, claimed seven lives, involved an 18-passenger bus and a Toyota car, which had an head-on collision leading to the death of the casualties. An eyewitness revealed to journalists in Ado […]
RESIDENTS and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday evening, no fewer than four suspected […]
THE Country Director of Actionaid Nigeria, Ene Obi, has lamented the impact of banditry on the country’s food security, adding that government should tackle it in order to solve the food crisis. Obi made this disclosure in her remarks on Monday at the National Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2023 Agriculture Budget in collaboration with […]
ON the heels of the claim, recently, by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, that Nigeria has enough doctors, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA has identified three major strategies that the federal government needs to embrace to check the migration of Nigerian doctors and other health workers abroad. In a chat with Vanguard, the […]