Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council, on Saturday, met in Owerri, and mandated the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Professor George Obiozor, to begin immediately consultation with other ethnic groups in Nigeria, in order to actualize
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Suspended Ekiti bye-election can’t hold yet, says INEC
Following the suspension of the Ekiti East state constituency election over reports of violence, the commission said it was too early to speculate on when the election would hold given the level of violence.
Read More »Buhari, Deby hold Nigeria-Chad bilateral talks in Aso Rock
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, held bilateral talks with the President of Chad, Idriss Deby at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Read More »Tinubu Colloquium holds in Kano Monday
The 12th Bola Tinubu Colloquium, an annual high-powered policy roundtable, will be held in Kano on Monday.
Read More »International Cargo Airport in Anambra begins operation April
Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, has said that the International Cargo Airport in Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area, will be operational by April 2021.
Read More »Group drags Buhari to court over Usman’s reappointment as NPA MD
A group of concerned stakeholders in Nigeria’s maritime industry at the weekend dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to court, accusing him of prematurely extending the tenure of Hadiza Bala Usman as the managing director
Read More »Wike hosts Burna Boy after Grammy win
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo on Saturday hosted Nigeria’s Grammy award winning Afrobeat artist, Burna Boy, describing him as pride of the State.
Read More »Super Eagles striker, Olayinka Peter marries Nollywood actress
Super Eagles striker Peter Olayinka has tied the knot with Nollywood actress Yetunde Barnabas in a lowkey event after two years of dating.
Read More »Nigeria’s unemployment rate worse than Great Depression when thousands committed suicide – Mailafia
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia, in this interview, discusses economic policies of the apex bank and the state of the nation, among sundry other issues.
Read More »Super Eagles qualify for AFCON 2021
Nigeria have successfully qualified for the next Africa Cup of Nations in group L of the qualifiers after they defeated hosts Benin 1-0 at Stade Charles de Gaulle in Porto-Novo on Saturday evening.
Read More »Man stabs woman to death, wounds six in Canada
A woman died and multiple others were wounded in a stabbing at a public library in Canada’s affluent Vancouver suburb on Saturday.
Read More »Facebook freezes Venezuela President’s page for COVID-19 misinformation
Facebook said Saturday that it was “freezing” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for a month after repeated violations of the platform’s rules against COVID-19 misinformation.
Read More »UK, EU reach first post-Brexit deal on financial rules
Britain and the European Union took their first step since Brexit to cooperate on financial services, agreeing on a new forum to discuss market regulation.
Read More »Preventing avoidable deaths in Nigeria – Vanguard
On January 19, 2021, around 8.15 am on the Presidential Boulevard Road near Guarantee Trust Bank opposite Lawson Group School, Kuto, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, a tanker transporting petrol exploded, killing at least one person
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