In faraway Washington, DC over the weekend, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo propounded new ideas on how best to bring developing nations to contribute adequately to the course of global net-zero emissions targets, facilitate energy access and development of African countries. Speaking at a lecture on a just and equitable energy …

Edo State governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, founder and chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, former governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke, Secretary to the Edo State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., the First Lady, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, and other dignitaries, on Saturday, graced the 10th year remembrance service of …

The forthcoming general election in Nigeria formed the centre stage at yesterday’s bilateral meeting in Washington D.C between the United States and Nigeria with the US pledging its support towards ensuring that Nigeria holds a free and fair poll in February 2023. At the meeting between the US Vice President, …

A group of former militant leaders under the aegis of the Movement for Sustainable Development of the Niger Delta (MSDND) yesterday asked President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno to extend the tenure of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Dixon …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) yesterday called on President, Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), former Inspector General of Police, Mr Musiliu Smith over alleged recurring ineptitude under his administration. The call was made in support of an earlier one by the …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has restated that the Igbos have remained in the forefront of Nigeria’s unity and development since independence, adding that it they deserve recognition. He made the remarks at the 80th anniversary of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu organised by the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), …

A truck driver and father-of-seven, Mureed Hussain, was planning for his daughter’s October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry. “I had been collecting her dowry for almost three years,” Hussain told newsmen from the courtyard of his four-room …

Emergency responders have recovered two dead bodies from the rubbles of a building that collapsed in the early hours of Sunday in Lekki, Lagos State. Zonal Coordinator South West, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, said this to newsmen on Sunday in Lagos. Farinloye said the seven-storey building under …

As part of his effort towards strengthening the existing security strategies for return of peace in the Sokoto State, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Usaini Gumel, has started an operation tour to the eastern senatorial part of the state. The tour includes operational visits to Sabon Birni, Goronyo, Rabah …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to use his “leadership position to urgently withdraw the names of nominees recently submitted to the Senate for confirmation as Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission who are allegedly members of the …