Amid protracted conflict in Sudan, the United States should work to lower the temperature amongst external actors, and support Sudanese citizens, who remain steadfast in their aspirations for a civilian-led government. Sudan’s suffering deepens by the hour, as self-serving army and militia forces battle for supremacy in a struggle totally divorced from the aims of the 2018-2019 revolution, in which the people of Sudan bravely stood up to one of the world’s most brutal...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 6.2million children are zero dose (unvaccinated), a consequence of the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 2021 in Nigeria. WHO also noted that the Africa Region estimates show that the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine immunization services has driven up the number of zero-dose and under-immunized children, rising by 16% between 2019 and 2021 and pushing the cumulative total (2019–2021) to around...
Canadian Actor Saint Von Colucci has died at the age of 22 after undergoing 12 cosmetic surgeries to look like BTS singer, Jimin. According to Eric Blake, his publicist, Colucci died on Sunday at a South Korean hospital after complications from his most recent procedure. Reports have it that Von Colucci moved from Canada to South Korea in 2019 in pursuit of a career in entertainment, and went under the knife on Saturday, April 22,...
The Enugu State Governor-elect, Dr. Peter Mbah, has revealed a 60-man transition committee ahead of May 29th handover. In a press release signed by the Head of the Peter Mbah Media Office, Dan Nwomeh said, “The Transition Committee will help articulate and fine-tune the incoming administration’s implementable and impactful development plan; they will streamline the State development plan in line with Mbah’s Social Charter with Ndi Enugu.” “The Charter aims at repositioning the state as...
The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned a 24 years old man, Agbo Onuabuchi, a native of Ebonyi State, but resident in Ogidi town, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, for strangling to death and burying his male friend, Mr. Peter Ukekwe aged 44, in a shallow grave, at Amuri community in Nkanu West Local Government Area on Saturday 1st of April 2023. The Police official bulletin, signed by the Police Public Relations...
The National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has given President Muhammadu Buhari a 14-day ultimatum to sign the bill seeking to end the disparity between Higher National Diploma, HND, and Bachelor of Science, B.Sc, holders. A bill that sought to erase the age-long inequality between degree holders and HND holders in the country was passed by the Senate in June 2021, but President Buhari has yet to give his assent. The president’s overdue silence on...
President-elect Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria yesterday after being away for 34 days. The West African Pilot News reports that the President-elect left the country on March 21 for Paris, France to rest after a hectic campaign and election season and plan his transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Upon his arrival, Tinubu, who was accompanied by his wife, Senator Oluremi, was welcomed by a crowd of supporters and some high-ranking members...
The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali, has ordered an investigation and possible prosecution of the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa-Ari. This follows the receipt of an April 18 letter from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), detailing the alleged impropriety of Ari’s actions. A statement on Sunday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said IG Alkali had directed an investigative team to work with INEC in the investigation...
Anambra State government, led by Professor Chukwuma Soludo has demolished a multi-million naira building constructed on a land said to belong to the state government. The building was pulled down on Saturday by the Awka Capital Territory Development Agency, ACTDA. Mr Ossy Onuko, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ACTDA who led the demolition team to the site at Isuaniocha, Awka North Local Government Area, said the administration of Prof Soludo would not...
Osita Okechukwu, Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC), has described former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s attack on President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s transition as political hypocrisy. Recall that Atiku, the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded general elections decried the absence of any Igbo person on the membership list of Tinubu’s transition committee. While reaction to the former Vice President’s Reacting to Atiku’s...
