The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, has approved the issuance of provisional licences for the establishment of two new private universities in the country. They are the Edwin Clarke University, situated in Kiagbodo, Delta State, and the Hezekiah University in Umudi, Imo State. Once the operating licences are issued, they […]
Jideofor Adibe. The wave of attacks against foreigners in South Africa, mostly migrants from other African countries, has attracted justified condemnation from around the world. Seven lives have been lost in the orgy of violence, with soldiers now (rather belatedly) deployed to some of the key flashpoints to help contain the mayhem. In 2008 a […]
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao appeared more focused on conserving energy and downplaying animosity than stirring the pot for their upcoming mega-fight as the two boxers eased their way through a low-key media conference on Wednesday. Back in the same room for the first time since March 11 when they came together to promote […]
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists the English Premier League title has not been secured just yet despite moving to within one victory of mathematically clinching it. The West Londoners ensured they would be crowned champions if they beat Crystal Palace at home on Sunday after coming from behind to win 3-1 at Leicester on Wednesday. […]
Bola Tinubu The destructive attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans are tragic and mindlessly wrong. The assaults sorely bruise the objective of inter-African harmony. They also put an eraser to the idyll of progress and domestic tranquillity many people saw when gazing at South Africa. The xenophobia is actually a lethal […]
President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, approved the appointment of Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) following the sacking of Mallam Habib Abdullahi who occupied the position. The appointment of Sanusi was contained in a statement by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati. The newly-appointed Sanusi is a lawyer […]
The trial of a former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, along with three others, who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering, before Justice B. O. Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe, continued on April 29, with the prosecution […]
President-elect of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team. In a statement released in Abuja, Wednesday, by Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential […]
Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, Wednesday, directed the dismantling of Police road blocks across the country, warning that Commissioners of Police (CP) and other senior police officers in whose jurisdiction such illegal posts still exist would be held ‘vicariously liable.’ Arase who spoke in Abuja at his maiden meeting with officers on […]
For the third consecutive time, Covenant University has emerged tops in the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development. The university produced 11 First Class graduates among the 102 successful candidates for the 2015/2016 academic session of the programme, as published by the National Universities Commission and signed by the chairman, PRESSID Implementation Committee, […]
Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has expressed elation at the news of the rescue of nearly 300 girls and women from the Sambisa forest by troops of the Nigerian military. The former Vice President said in a statement by his media office in Abuja, Wednesday that […]
President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has identified the problems confronting the country and his presidency and called on the in-coming National Assembly members to join him on the “battle front” to overcome these challenges. Gen. Buhari who was addressing the lawmakers at an induction ceremony organised for them by the National Institute for Legislative Studies […]
AKHERE Godwin, Benin As the rainy season is fast approaching, the Edo State Rapid Response Agency has intensified efforts aimed at ensuring that broken intra and inter-city roads are made more motorable for commuters. Our correspondent who monitored some of the roads being rehabilitated by the agency including the rehabilitated Golf Course Annex, Ikpokpan […]
President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday in Abuja, inaugurated a 19-member Transition Committee to liaise with its Federal Government counterpart to ensure a smooth transition. A statement issued in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Committee (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the terms of reference of the committee includes to develop […]
NEDU MARK, Yenagoa The Management of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has commenced recovery of spilled crude that leaked from its Kolo Creek Manifold in Bayelsa rural communities. Shell said the leak within its Kolo creek oil field operated in Bayelsa state rural communities discharged over 27 barrels of Shell’s crude blend into the […]
NEDU MARK Yenagoa Leadership of various human, civil rights organizations as well as other advocacy groups in Nigeria, Wednesday, converged on Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, to mourn the demise of the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Documentation and Strategy, Dr. Oronto Natie Douglas. The activists described the late Presidential aide […]
AKHERE Godwin,Benin Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court has reserved sentence for Thursday on the money laundering case involving the younger brother to the former Edo state Governor, Mr Michael Igbinedion. Justice Liman , Wednesday reserved sentence after over three hours of judgment. Liman who called for a recess after over three […]
All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ekiti State, has accused the leadership of organised labour in the state of collecting a staggering sum of N30 million to frustrate attempts by the 19 lawmakers on the platform of the APC to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose. The party said the labour top brass had conspired with the […]
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday, arraigned one Oladepo Bamidele Osibeluwo before Justice Augustine Odukwo of the Akwa Ibom State High Court Uyo, on one count charge of stealing to the tune of N4, 623, 600.00 ( Four million, six hundred and twenty three thousand, six hundred naira). The accused, who was employed as […]
UNICEF and partners, Wednesday, launched the U-Report, an innovative SMS-based platform that empowers Nigerians by enabling them to participate and engage in policy-making and governance and access real time information on key social issues. U-Report enables those who voluntarily register , known as U-reporters – to speak-out on what is happening in their communities, provides […]
The purported recall of Nigeria’s envoys to South Africa has led to the suspension of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Danjuma Sheni, for his alleged role in the controversy surrounding their invitation back home. Already , a new permanent secretary has been redeployed to the ministry to replace him. It would be […]
Following the rejection of pleas for leniency from the inmates, families and diplomats by President Joko Widodo, Indonesia, Wednesday morning, executed by firing squad, four Nigerians, as well as four others from Brazil, France, Australia and one of its own. Frenchman Serge Areski Atlaoui and Filipino, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso were, however, spared as […]
Eddie Onuzuruike . There is no doubt that the 2015 elections have come and gone but it left a sour taste in the buds of the principal actors and their different followers. Notably, APGA exploded in a quantum growth from being an unknown to giving a stiff, challenging opposition to PDP which before this time […]
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to quadruple the supply of gas to Nigeria by building pipelines that may be backed by Carlyle Group LP and Blackstone Group LP, the world’s two biggest private-equity firms. Dangote, who has a net worth of $15 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, will invest $2.2 billion […]
Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described comments credited to Mr. Sam Woka, claiming that about 25 political parties have so far indicated interest to participate in the Amaechi-proposed Local Government polls in the State, as ‘outright falsehood.’ In faulting Woka’s claims, the PDP said it felt concerned that “a […]
