Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Sunday Aborisade, Udora Orizu in Abuja and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark International Workers’ Day today, organised labour and the civil society coalition, under the aegis of Citizens’ Democratic Movement, have urged the country’s judiciary, especially judges of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, to help safeguard democracy […]
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Team Nigeria has made a giant stride in the city of Ndola, Zambia, venue of the ongoing 2023 African U-18 and U-20 Athletics Championships, winning a total of 12 medals in Day 2 of the competition. The event, which entered its second day on Sunday. saw Nigerian athletes sweeping five Gold, three Silver and four Bronze medals to take their […]
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this is written after a sober reflection on goings on in Nigeria. In the early sixties when we were undergraduates at the University of Ibadan, Malcolm X an American Muslim Minister and a civil rights activist gave a lecture at the Trenchad Hall. It was a surprise that hall did not collapse considering the sheer quantum of students and staff […]
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A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has reacted to the Supreme court judgment upholding the election of Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last year’s Osun state governorship election. The apex court on Friday dismissed the appeal of Senator Ademola Adeleke challenging the declaration of Gboyega Oyetola as the winner of the Osun State governorship […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the 2023 Population and Housing Census. Buhari made this known after a meeting with some members of the Federal Executive Council and the National Population Commission on Friday night. He said the earlier scheduled Census which was to hold from May 3-7 will be determined by the incoming administration. A statement signed […]
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Despite a series of intervention programmes against the malaria epidemic in recent times, Nigeria is apparently not winning the war against the deadly scourge, with an estimated sum of N2.04 trillion still routinely spent on treatments yearly. The conservative estimate of malaria cost, which is a far-cry from the $1.1 billion (N825 billion) estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), […]
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For Nigerian startups to survive, the federal government has been advised to democratise access to capital. This was the view of participants at the Knowledge Digest Africa conference. They equally for specialised banks for startups that would accommodate their learning curve to growth path. Speaking at the event, the convener of the conference, Samson Olatunde, stressed that the problem of […]
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President-elect Bola Tinubu, yesterday, urged Nigerians to disregard the rumour about his health, saying he is strong and refreshed enough for the task ahead. Tinubu spoke in Abuja following his return from a month’s rest in France ahead of his inauguration as 16th President of Nigeria on May 29. One of the top aspirants for the 10th Senate presidency, Senator […]
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The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said the Federal Government is making “tremendous progress” to evacuate Nigerians stranded in conflict-hit Sudan. Dabiri-Erewa, who made a live appearance on the Monday edition of Channels Television’s Lunchtime Politics, disclosed that every Nigerian student in the North African country now has a point of contact. “Buses will take them […]
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The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi on Tuesday described the allegation of treason levelled against him and his vice presidential candidate, Yussuf Datti Baba-Ahmed by the federal government as malicious, fictitious and an apparent campaign of calumny against them. Obi reacted to the accusation of treason levelled against him and his running mate in the just […]
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