Wike’s Government Pull Out Of Keyamo’s Public Works Programme
The Rivers State Government has pulled out of the Special Public Works Programme of the Federal Government where seven hundred and seventy-four thousand unskilled Nigerians were supposed to be employed. Nominee of the Rivers State government in the Committee, Erastus Awortu made the decision of the state known in a letter addressed to the Minister […]
COVID-19: Nigeria Now Has Over 47,000 Confirmed Cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night, announced 423 new confirmed COVID-19 cases. The new cases were reported from 22 states: Lagos (117), FCT (40), Ondo (35), Rivers (28), Osun (24), Benue (21), Abia (19), Ogun (19), Ebonyi (18), Delta (17), Kwara (17), Kaduna (15), Anambra (14), Ekiti (11), Kano (9), Imo […]
NCC, USPF, Others Advance FG’s Digital Economy Agenda
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) and three other agencies under the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, have continued to implement people-oriented projects to advance President Muhammadu Buhari’s digital economy agenda. The other agencies include: the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Galaxy Backbone […]
Chinese Fighter Jets ‘Target’ Trump’s Messenger As Tension Deepens
China on Tuesday sent fighter jets across the midline of the Taiwan Strait at the very time the United States of America’s health chief, Alex Azar, visited Taiwan to offer President Donald Trump’s support. China had earlier condemned Azar’s visit to Taiwan after a period of deteriorating relations between it and the US. The Asian […]
Details Of Buhari’s Meeting With Nigerian Governors Emerge
President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors, Tuesday, ended their meeting on the state of the nation’s security with calls for a joint strategy to bring various conflicts to an end within time limits. Consequently, field commanders would take measures to protect civilian communities as a confidence-building mechanism between the military and those communities. It is […]
Blood On The Land
To the People of Southern Kaduna: The only crime they committed is their refusal to give up their ancestral land to strangers to occupy. Butchered like animals that are sacrificed to the gods on daily basis. It has always been gory pictures of lifeless bodies of men, women and even innocent children on the internet […]
President Buhari Has Failed Nigerians – Catholic Bishops
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed the citizenry. The declaration followed the increasing insecurity in the country. CBCN President, Archbishop Augustine Obiora, in a press release on Tuesday, also condemned corruption scandals and the state of the economy. The cleric insisted that Buhari had disappointed everyone […]
Security Chiefs Don’t Complain Of Weapons – Femi Adesina
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that Nigeria’s security chiefs are not complaining or requesting for military equipment. He said that Nigeria military is well equipped, insisting that even in recent security meetings held with the President and other stakeholders, no agency complained lacking equipment to […]
Manchester United Face Sevilla In Europa Semi-Final
Manchester United will face Sevilla in the UEFA Europa League semi-finals on Sunday, after the Spanish club defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in their quarter-final on Tuesday. The match will take place on Sunday at Stadion Koln, in Cologne Germany. Kick-off is scheduled for 20:00 GMT. United on Monday booked a place in the last four […]
New Zealand Announces Return Of COVID-19 After 102 Days
New Zealand announced its first locally transmitted coronavirus infections more than 100 days on Tuesday and issued a stay-at-home lockdown order for the country’s largest city. After receiving global praise for its success containing the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said four cases had been detected in a single family in Auckland from an unknown […]
Lebanon Blast: Political Game Changer Or Hollow Blow?
Last week’s cataclysmic explosion has ripped Lebanon apart but was it strong enough to topple the entrenched ruling class whose greed and incompetence are blamed for it? The masters of Lebanon’s political pie-sharing game have not changed in decades: warlords from the 1975-1990 civil war who traded their fatigues for suits. Many Lebanese want their […]
Greece Seeks Emergency EU Meeting On Turkey – PM
Greece wants the EU to hold an emergency foreign ministers’ meeting, the prime minister’s office said Tuesday amid a burgeoning row with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. “The foreign minister (will) request an emergency meeting of the European Union foreign affairs council,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ office said. The row flared Monday when Ankara […]