On Thursday, the Nigerian Senate approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari for a $75m World Bank loan for Edo State. Majority of the lawmakers in the upper chamber of the National Assembly gave their nods to the President’s request despite opposition from some quarters against granting the state governor, Adams Oshiomhole, the authority to…
An organisation called Women Empowerment and Enlightenment Campaign, WEEC, has organised an essay competition for girls from ages 18 to 25. This, according to the organisers, is to support and reposition the female gender for growth. The competition, which will run online, is expected to hold from August 10 to 31, 2015. It is to…
Following his exploits in faraway Japan, a student of the Tokai University in Tokyo, Ufot Ekong, has been rewarded with a scholarship from the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, to complete his studies. The governor made this gesture also in celebration of the 2015 International Youth Day, which was held on Wednesday across…
Nigeria is teeming with zestful and ambitious men and women, young boys and girls. We are blessed with abundant natural and material resources. We are advantageously situated in the Sub-sahara Africa, with an overwhelming population that should be our strength. We live in a country where freedom of expression is guaranteed, the right of participation…
According to a report reaching our news room, a small plane has crashed into a lagoon in Lagos. The helicopter, we learnt, crashed into a lagoon behind a police station at Oworosoki. However, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in South-West, Ibrahim Farinloye, who confirmed the incident, could not ascertain if the jet…
The death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade has been formally announced by traditional rulers in Osun State. This was made known on Wednesday afternoon in the state after a brief meeting with the state governor in Osogbo, the state capital. On Monday, the Obawara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti, had told journalists…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been charged to investigate the immediate past governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi. According to the Deputy Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Samuel Nwanosike, Buhari must probe those around him, including Amaechi, who the party alleged to have looted the state during his tenure as…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has been directed by the Senate to immediately enforce the abolishment of N702 fixed charges being collected from electricity consumers across the country. According to the lawmakers, it was wrong for the Commission to continue charging consumers of electricity in Nigeria the said amount after it was ordered to…
Some eminent Nigerians under the aegis of the National Peace Committee for the 2015 general elections led by a former Head of State, Abdusalami Abubakar are presently holding a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting is taking place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Also at the meeting are the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji…
The Nigerian Army has pledged to deal with its officers caught on camera maltreating a robbery suspect on Saturday in Nasarawa State. A photograph of the incident was published on Monday on the front page of Daily Trust newspaper and the army authorities are furious over the way the issue was given prominence by the…