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Abia, Election 2015, Elections 2023, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
From Kenneth Udeh, Umuahia Communities in Item, Abia North senatorial district, have attested to the developmental projects sited in their respective districts by their representative, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, in three years as a first time senator at the National Assembly. Kalu, in continuity of his ongoing midterm constituency report tour, had, on Tuesday, attend town hall […]
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Headlines
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Ibrahim Babangida’s ex-spokesman, Duro Onabule is dead By Don Silas Chief Duro Onabule, a veteran journalist and a former spokesperson to former military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Onabule, according to a close associate, Eric Teniola, died on Tuesday at the age of 83. “Chief Duro Onabule died this evening,” a family source […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Elections, Elections 2023, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
By Wale Odunsi The camp of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi has informed Isaac Fayose that he is living in the past. The brother of ex-Ekiti governor Ayo Fayose had stated that Obi would need N50billion to defeat Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In a rejoinder on Wednesday, the […]
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Headlines
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
By Festus Adedayo In a Nigeria where the curriculum vitae of some presidential aspirant is as opaque as the sky, birth details shawled in translucent towel, real name a subject of needless controversy, birth and parenthood a curious pouch fallen from space on an island nobody wants to touch, schooling history smelling like a miasma […]
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Economy, Headlines, Naira (Currency)
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Davies Ngere Ify The Naira exchanged for N430.67 against the dollar on Tuesday at the Investors and Exporters window. Comparing the figure to the N430 it exchanged for the dollar on Monday, it showed a decrease of 0.16 percent. The open indicative rate closed at N429.88 to the dollar on Tuesday. An exchange rate […]
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Africa & World Politics
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
Ghanaian Nurse in trouble for threatening to kill all her patients By Ashimedua Adebiyi Investigations into uncovering the identify of a nurse who in a Tik Tok video, threatened to kill patients that plan to visit the hospital where she works has commenced. Ghana’s Nursing and Midwifery Council which disassociated itself from the video released […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By John Owen Nwachukwu Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has told the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike to apologise to his predecessor and former boss, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. HURIWA said Wike should apologise to the former Minister of Transportation for what it described as needless political war of vendetta to Amaechi, who […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Ann Godwin (Port Harcourt) and Murtala Adewale (Kano) • Wike’s camp properly briefed about postponement, a shift in venue to Abuja – Atiku team • No comment from Wike, Obi after a midnight meeting • Away from the norm, Wike commissions project by himself despite inviting the Bauchi governor • Says he’s not interested […]
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Articles, Columnists, Labour Party (LP), NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | August 17, 2022 – The All Peoples Congress (APC) presidential primaries was a parade of the colorful and flamboyant, bumptious and presumptuous, arrogant and megalomaniac, and diffident and self-effacing. I was very impressed by Yemi Osibanjo, our scholarly, urbane and deftly discerning vice president. I was taken by his […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | NNP | August 17, 2022 MY THOUGHTS ON ASUU STRIKE Lagos State universities are not on strike! I am yet to understand why academic staff of state-owned universities often abandon their classrooms when ASUU declares a trade dispute with the Federal Government, not State Governments, over noncompliance with agreements […]
