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United Nations (UN) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have organised a stakeholders’ dialogue to identify challenges facing the Niger Delta region and to align it with the UN’s Six Transitions and the Niger Delta Regional Development Strategy. At the summit on the localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Niger Delta […]
Kim Jong Un will join Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a major military parade in Beijing next week, North Korean and Chinese state media have announced.
Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said his administration would continue to commit resources and collaborate with relevant organisations to tackle the challenges of climate change and encourage community acceptance of the options adopted. AbdulRazaq spoke in Ilorin, the state capital, at a stakeholder engagement and sensitisation meeting on climate change policy and an action […]
In light of the escalating tensions surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nigeria’s Civic Trenches has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Ramzy Abu Ibrahim and other Palestinian leaders recently detained by Nigerian security forces. The groups staged a peaceful protest yesterday at the frontage of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs head office opposite […]
The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KADSEMA) has confirmed the building collapse that resulted in the death of a mother and three Children at Karaoke Zaria City in the Zaria local government area of the state. Recall that the building collapse killed a mother, Mallama Habiba Nuhu, and her biological children and a grandson, according […]
Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has constituted an 11-member investigative panel to probe the alleged sale of the Nigerian Meat and Allied Products (NIMAP) Abattoir by former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s administration. While inaugurating the committee on Wednesday at the cabinet office, Secretary to the State Government Umar Faruq, said the multi-billion naira facility, […]
The federal government will hold a crucial meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Abuja today, which is seen as a last-ditch effort to avert another nationwide shutdown of public universities. The meeting, convened by the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, comes barely 48 hours after university lecturers staged nationwide […]
The Kaduna State PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in the 2023 election, Isa Ashiru, has disclosed that his political base in Kudan and across the state is still intact. Ashiru said his attention had been drawn to a report published in a national daily (Not LEADERSHIP) that he was losing key allies. In a statement he issued […]
The zoning of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket to the South has sparked moves to woo former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Labour Party presidential candidate in 2023, Peter Obi, back to the party, it was learnt yesterday. This comes as loyalists of the Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde have declared that he […]
The use of stones by constituents to defend themselves against invading bandits who kill, rape and kidnap constituents for ransom has moved a lawmaker in the Katsina State House of Assembly to purchase weapons for his constituents and train them in handling them. When bandits attacked Bagari, the villagers fought back – not with rifles […]