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The Youth Can Lead Fellowship, an initiative designed to equip young Nigerians with leadership and professional skills, held a leadership training and empowerment workshop at the weekend in Abuja. At the event, Martha Eginiwin, the founder and convener of the fellowship, said the programme was aimed at amplifying youth voices and preparing them for national […]
Ogwashi Uku Kingdom in Delta State will continue to recover its land, which has been mortgaged to estate developers by some unscrupulous individuals who delight in the sale of community land. The acting Omu of the kingdom, Her Royal Majesty, Chief Edith Rafua, stated this in a reaction to a video of a faceless woman […]
The Yola zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded that the federal government immediately freeze the recently approved nine universities until the existing ones receive adequate funding, infrastructure and staffing or face industrial action. The union’s zonal coordinator, Dani Mamman, made the members’ position known at a press conference held at […]
President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, are among dignitaries expected at the 10th anniversary celebration of GbaramatuVoice in Abuja. The pan-Niger Delta media organisation will mark the milestone with a two-day event featuring a public lecture and the Niger Delta Night […]
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 55-year-old suspected drug kingpin Mohammed Ali Abubakar alias Bello Karama and five members of a syndicate operating at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA). This followed the discovery that they were behind the shipment of illicit substances for which three innocent Nigerians who went on […]
A former director-general of the Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology (NILEST), Prof. Mohammed Kabir Yakubu, has charged northern governors to develop the region’s leather industry. He warned that Nigeria risks losing billions of dollars in potential export earnings. Yakubu, who also chaired the National Leather and Leather Products Policy Steering Committee, made the […]
Kwara State Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders’ Caucus has cautioned individuals and groups against politicising security challenges. The group, in a statement signed by its public relations officer, Sulaiman Cementi, reminded those trying to gain cheap publicity by politicising insecurity that the challenge is not peculiar to Kwara. The caucus was reacting to a […]
Labour Party (LP) has condemned the chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Shehu, for defending the planned pay rise for politicians in the country. The interim national publicity secretary of LP, Tony Akeni, in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, described the alleged pay rise for politicians as “an insult […]
Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defended their recent meeting in Zamfara State and accused the African Democratic Congress (ADC) of creating an erroneous impression about the gathering. The ADC had on Sunday condemned the decision of PDP governors to hold their meeting in Zamfara on Saturday, only a few days after scores […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives has resolved to adopt all the decisions of the various committees and organs of the party, including the Zamfara and Lagos decisions to stabilise the party. The lawmakers reached this resolution at their emergency meeting in Abuja on Monday. Addressing journalists after the meeting, […]