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The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has begged Governor Godwin Obaseki for forgiveness “if there is any mistake I have made as human.” Shaibu, who made the plea while speaking to journalists on Thursday, said the plea became necessary to ensure that the present administration finished well in the state. The deputy governor spoke […]
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Yush’au Ahmed, on Thursday, said the management of the scheme was making frantic efforts towards the early release of the remaining five prospective corps members abducted recently in Zamfara State. The DG disclosed this when he appeared with his management team before the House of […]
President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria weighs so heavily in the global scheme of things that ignoring the country would spell dire consequences for the rest of the world. He said the world risked failing if the idealistic narratives advocated by various heads of state and governments at the United Nations General Assembly were not […]
Protesters and fans of the late Nigerian singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba known as Mohbad, were on Thursday night allegedly dispersed with teargas at the Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State. The protesters held a candlelight procession in honour of the late singer on Thursday. While announcing the protest on Monday night via the official X handle of the […]
The Federal Government said on Wednesday that this year’s Independence Day celebration on October 1 will be low-key and will not feature the usual ceremony at Eagle Square, Abuja. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, said this year’s Independence Day would be “a time for reflections…to think very deeply as a […]
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, said on Wednesday that Omowunmi, wife of deceased musician, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, visited him to demand justice for her late husband. Newsmen reports that the late musician, who passed away on September 12, 2023, was buried a day later. Following his death, […]
Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said, on Wednesday, that the ex-President regretted some of the decisions he took while in office and felt he could have done some things better. According to Adesina, who spoke in Osogbo on Wednesday, such is normal for any human being. The ex-presidential […]
President Bola Tinubu has encouraged Nigerians in the U.S. to rise above failure by having a change of mindset for success in all their endeavours in life. Tinubu gave the advice at the Presidential Townhall Meeting with Nigerians in the diaspora on Wednesday in New York. “I want to give you a measure that will […]
The Oyo State Government began the second phase of the Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery (SAfER) intervention in the state, with the distribution of foodstuff across all local government areas, provision of easy-to-access loans for small Enterpreneurs, provision of inputs for farmers, among other initiatives. In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said a trade union cannot pull out of an industrial action it did not initiate. President of of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, who stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, on Monday night, spoke against the backdrop of the purported withdrawal from the two-day warning […]
