Author: Adekunle Dada
APC will dislodge PDP in Bayelsa , House of Assembly aspirant boasts
Rumson Baribote, an All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly aspirant in Bayelsa, has boasted that the party would dislodge…
Kwara: APC governorship aspirant backs direct primaries
Mallam Saliu Mustapha, a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara, has pledged support to the party’s…
Paris Club Refund: Labour commends Nigerian Govt on bail-out directive
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has commended the Federal Government on its directives to the states to account for the…
Isawo-Arepo road: Ikorodu community appeals to Lagos Govt.
Residents of Isawo community in Ikrodu on Sunday appealed to Lagos State Government to complete the “abandoned” Agric-Isawo-Arepo road project…
Labour urges MTN to pay $10bn fine
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged communication giant, the MTN Nigeria to comply with the directive of the Federal…
Ethiopia, Eritrea sign peace agreement in Saudi Arabia
Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a peace agreement in Saudi Arabia ending decades of simmering conflict between the two Horn…
Nigerian Govt secures support of NPAN
The Federal Government has secured the commitment of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) to remain patriotic and committed…
South-East to benefit from $2bn China’s investment – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says the new investment commitments coming into Nigeria’s textile sector, of which Aba is a major beneficiary,…
China willing to provide Venezuela help
China is willing to provide Venezuela with what help it can, Premier Li Keqiang told Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on…
Flood claims 53 lives in Katsina, Kaduna in 4 months
The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in…
Kenyatta proposes to cut fuel tax to 8%
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Friday said a new and unpopular tax on petroleum products was necessary but that…
Zimbabwe crafts short-term economic blue print
The Zimbabwean government is crafting a short-term economic blue print to help stabilise the economy as it pushes with its…
South Africa to continue to put African agenda on BRICS – Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said South Africa like in the past will continue to put African issues on the…
IPOB’s sit-at-home: Banks, markets defy order in Umuahia
Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order…
2019: Dankwambo promises to offer solutions to Nigeria’s problems
Gombe State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, said he would provide solutions to the…
Doctors donate drugs to Kogi flood victims
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kogi Chapter, on Friday, donated drugs to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
Air Force recruits 7,644 Nigerians in 3 years
A total of 7,644 Nigerians have been recruited into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) since assumption of office of President…
Man allegedly kidnaps 3 men
A 26-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Friday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping…
2019: Ebonyi APC gubernatorial aspirant rejects zoning, consensus
Prof. Bernard Odoh, a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described zoning…
Funeral for wife of ex-Pakistan PM Sharif draws huge crowds
Tens of thousands of people defied scorching heat in Pakistan on Friday to attend funeral prayers for the wife of…
Evans’ kidnap victim narrates encounter
An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos heard on Friday that kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known popularly as Evans, was the…
Second Niger Bridge project reaches 50% completion
Work on the second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta and Onitsha in Anambra, has reached 50 per cent completion,…
IPOB’s sit-at-home: Enugu CP applauds residents for defying order
The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Mohammed Danmallam, has applauded the residents for defying the order by the…
2019: Kwankwaso promises to tackle insecurity if elected president
A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has promised to tackle insecurity…
Uganda dispatches teams to contain anthrax outbreak
Uganda’s Ministry of Health and that of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries have dispatched teams of experts to contain anthrax…
Nigerian Govt advised not to allow politics to overheat economy
A financial expert, Dr Samuel Nzekwe, has advised the Federal Government not to allow politics to overheat the economy.
Bandit attacks: Zamfara Govt. commiserates with community
The Zamfara government on Friday sent a five-man delegation to Badarawa Community in the Shinkafi Local Government Area of the…
Police restore normalcy after suspected IPOB members burnt Dangote trucks
The Rivers Police Command says it has restored normalcy after suspected members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) allegedly burnt…
Kante backs Loftus-Cheek to shine at Chelsea
Midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek has the qualities to play more regularly for Chelsea in the Premier League and must continue improving…
AFDB to tackle armyworm with technologies
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it will deploy an integrated approach and proven technologies in tackling the menace of…