Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday said he once refused to use government’s fund to complete a Christian Association of Nigeria building in Abuja. Obasanjo spoke during the Book Launch and 85th Birthday of Eminence Prelate Sunday Mbang of the Methodist Church Nigeria held at the Admiralty Centre, Naval Dockyard, …
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Soyinka To UN: Declare Nigeria As Protectorates To Stop Bandits ‘Slave Trade’
UN Should Declare Nigeria As Protectorates To Stop Bandits ‘Slave Trade’ With Schoolchildren – Soyinka Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has appealed to the government of the Republic of Benin to free Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, currently in prison custody in the West African …
Read More »Femi Fani-Kayode In Green White Green With Yerima In Zamfara (Pictures)
Wild ride and hectic schedule over the last 24 hours! Left Gusau early yesterday morning for Sokoto to get a flight to Abuja. It was pouring with rain and I suspected that the flight may be cancelled or delayed so half way to Sokoto I decided to turn back and …
Read More »Open Grazing Ban: Southern States Set To Miss Sept 1 Deadline
•My comments on legislation misinterpreted, says Uzodinma •Self determination agitators threaten fresh protests over planned recovery of grazing sites The planned ban on open grazing across the southern states may not materialise from next month as originally scheduled, according to indications yesterday. This is because the law regulating such activity …
Read More »Sunday Igboho Not Criminal – Soyinka Rebukes DSS, Buhari Govt
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has maintained that Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho is not a criminal. Soyinka said the Nigerian Government should tag herdsmen killing people and raping women as criminals and not Igboho. Speaking with journalists at the Freedom Park in Lagos on Friday, the Nobel …
Read More »Hostage Fears For British & Afghan Allies Left At The Mercy Of Taliban & Isis-K
TRAPPED IN HELL : BRITAIN faces the “biggest hostage crisis ever” after leaving over 1,000 Afghan allies to the mercy of the Taliban and ISIS-K, ministers were warned last night. The chilling warning came as Boris Johnson said he felt a “great sense of regret” about those left behind and …
Read More »LASG Resumes Federal Government Conditional Cash Transfer To Beneficiaries
LASG RESUMES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER TO BENEFICIARIES … Flags off Disbursement at Apapa Local Government Lagos State, one of the 34 States in Nigeria selected for the cash transfer programme of the Federal Government, has resumed disbursement of funds with the flag-off of the 5th and 6th bi-monthly …
Read More »Enugu Flags Off Second Phase Of COVID-19 Vaccination
Enugu govt flags off second phase of COVID-19 vaccination …Urges residents to get vaccinated The Enugu State government under Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has flagged off the second phase of the administration of AstraZeneca and Moderna COVID19 vaccines on the people of the state, in collaboration with Development Partners. The …
Read More »DisCos Get NERC Approval To Increase Tariff September 1st
DisCos GET NERC APPROVAL TO INCREASE TARIFF SEPTEMBER 1 • EKEDP disowns increase notice The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to increase their tariff effect from 1st September, 2021. The commission in a letter titled ‘Tariff Increase Notification’ gave the energy distributors …
Read More »Kunle Olawunmi Wanted By Defence Intelligence Agency Over Channels TV Interview
The Defence Intelligence Agency is the primary military intelligence agency of Nigeria. “The agency has declared retired Navy Commodore Kunle Olawunmi wanted for spilling the beans over Boko Haram sponsors in the Buhari regime. They asked him to come with his international passport on Tuesday to the DIA office in …
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