Ondo Amotekun partners Edo to tackle inter-border kidnapping

To tackle insecurity, Ondo State Security Network, also called Amotekun Corps has sought the cooperation of security agencies in Edo State to comb the various communities for criminals and check inter-border kidnapping. Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, Corps Commander disclosed this to journalists on Wednesday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, while fielding questions during a programme, Platform, organised by the correspondents’ Chapel of  the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state. Akogun stated that some...

UNICEF charges Bauchi govt, others  on conducive environment for breastfeeding mothers

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), has called on the Bauchi State government and employers to create a conducive environment for working mothers to carry out six months exclusive breastfeeding of their newborn babies. Dr Tushar Rane, the UNICEF Chief of Field Office Bauchi State, made the call during the 2023 World Breastfeeding Week Media Dialogue with theme “Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a difference for working parents” which held at Jamil Hotel in  Azare, headquarters of...

Jandor confident of victory at Lagos election petition tribunal

Dr. Olajide Adediran, popularly called Jandor, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State, has expressed confidence that he’ll have victory at the election tribunal sitting in Lagos. The PDP candidate is seeking the disqualification of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. He noted that he would win because everything that he submitted at the...

VP Kashim Shettima Says Nigerian Government Losses $7bn To Floods

The Nigerian Government has said over 600 lives were lost as a result of floods in 2022 and the direct economic damage caused by the disaster is amounting to $7bn. Vice President Kashim Shettima who disclosed this on Tuesday at an event of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Abuja, described the situation as the worst effect of climate change in Nigeria. Represented by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Hassan, Vice...

Coalition Of CSOs Reacts To Video Accusing Chief of Defense Staff

A Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in Kaduna state has reacted to a video that has gone viral accusing Gen. Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defense Staff of being used by France, America and Britain in favour of a war between ECOWAS military force and the Nigerien military junta. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday in Kaduna, Nuhu Bahago, the Coordinator of the coalition, noted that the video is capable of inciting hatred against the...

Team of Anambra Debaters in Kuala Lumpur, to Represent Nigeria

A team of debaters from Anambra state have traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to represent Nigeria in an international debate competition in the Southeast Asian country.  The team which arrived Kuala Lumpur last weekend was led by the Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh. According to the Anambra State debate coordinator, Mrs. Amaka Aniekwe, upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, team Nigeria debaters are being coached and tutored in preparation for the...

University of Ibadan student appointed as member of presidential tax committee

Orire Agbaje, a 400-level Economics student of the University of Ibadan, UI, has been appointed as a member of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms. The committee was inaugurated at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. The president had approved the establishment of the committee last month and appointed Taiwo Oyedele, a tax and fiscal policy expert, as its chairman. The committee is responsible for various aspects of...

WAEC releases 2023 WASSCE results 44 days after the examination

…withholds results of candidates from eight states The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released the results of the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE. The Head of the National Office, HNO, WAEC Nigeria, Patrick Areghan gave a breakdown of the results at a press briefing in Lagos on Monday. Areghan said that of a total of 1,613,733 candidates that sat for the examination, 794,280 were males, while 819,453 were females, representing 49.22...

Niger Coup: Don’t deliberately interfere in affairs of a sovereign nation, MBF tells Tinubu

With the end of the seven-day ultimatum  given to the military junta to release President Mohamed Bazoum in Niger, by the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu, the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has asked Tinubu to guard against deliberate interference in the affairs of a sovereign nation. Dr. Isuwa Dogo, the National Publicity Secretary of MBF in a press statement on Monday, noted that understanding the dynamics...

Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa in a battle of supremacy in South East

The move by Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to put an end to the sit-at-home observed in the South East every Monday has met with opposition from his supposed disciple, Simon Ekpa. Kanu, 13 days ago, via a handwritten letter ordered the cancellation of all pending or future sit-at-home in the five eastern states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. In the letter, Kanu unequivocally stated that...

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