Nigeria and China have shown how to make military cooperation among nations, that is, to protect, develop and promote the defence interests of their countries. According to the strategic partnership between the two countries, they are based on the bedrock of shared values, shared interests, and true friendship. They have demonstrated the width and depth of security and defence ties as a model for African relations. The Senior Colonel Lin Wei, the Defence Attaché in...
The former Deputy National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George has advised President Bola Tinubu against entering Niger militarily. The PDP leader, in an open letter to Tinubu on Saturday, urged him not to start something he cannot finish. The Atona Oodua of Yorubaland said, “Niger is one of the largest (land border) countries in the world and also one of the poorest. What exactly do we gain if we go...
Orders CPs to establish CRU in states, Benue, Plateau gets new Police CPs Sequel to the receipt of series of complaints from members of the public against high-handedness, extortion and inappropriate behaviours by the police personnel, the Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has announced a restructuring and strengthening of the IGP Monitoring Unit and the X-Squad within the Police Force to ensure greater efficiency, sanity, and accountability. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public...
President Bola Tinubu has added Festus Keyamo to his list of minister-nominees to be screened by the Senate. The President also withdrew the nomination of Maryam Shetty, naming Mairiga Mahmud as her replacement. The president communicated the new development to the Senate via a letter at the resumed screening of the minister-nominees on Friday. Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, read the letter from the President during plenary. Keyamo was the Minister of State for Labour...
Former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has emerged as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ganduje was elected the national chairman of the ruling party at the 12th meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party on Thursday. Senator Ajibola Basiru was also elected as the party’s national secretary. The meeting took place at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. The former national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and ex-national secretary, Iyiola...
President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration’s policies are in the best interest of every Nigerian. “Our policies are for the people, not to punish the people,” the President said at the 12th National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday in Abuja. Since he assumed office on May 29, President Tinubu has taken several policies that have been dubbed ‘anti-masses’ and heavily criticised by many Nigerians. Some...
“No one can successfully prove election rigging by relying on the same results announced by INEC or by minor infractions like pockets of outrage, and intimidation of some voters, among others,” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The recent publication by The Economist Intelligence Unit, in which they emphatically predicted that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, will not sack President Bola Tinubu, has sparked outrage in the camp of the opposition. Supporters of the PDP and LP have faulted...
Following Wednesday’s closed-door meeting with leaders of labour unions at the State House in Abuja with President Bola Tinubu, the union has agreed to suspend its nationwide protest to give room for negotiation with the federal government. Recall that on Wednesday the Labour had declared protest across the country after the price of fuel moved to N617 from N537 and the delay by the government in providing relief from economic hardships. In a statement jointly...
The Chief of Field Office, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Maiduguri Phuong Nguyen has raised the alarm that no fewer than 1.6 million children are out of school in the North East. Nguyen, who disclosed a Seminar Foundation Literacy and Numeracy in North-East held in Maiduguri on Wednesday, explained that UNICEF remains committed to accelerating education delivery in Nigeria. “At least 1.6 million children are out of school in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States. Of...
The Lagos State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has directed all doctors working in the three government hospitals on Lagos Island to begin an indefinite strike over the death of their colleague, Dr Vwaere Diaso. The affected hospitals are General Hospital, Odan, the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, and the Massey Street Children’s Hospital, Lagos. Dr Vwaere Diaso, a Babcock University graduate who had two weeks left to complete her horsemanship fell and died...
