The Princewill’s Political Associates worldwide, a foremost political pressure group with its headquarters in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital has commenced its membership registration and revalidation exercise. Announcing the commencement of the exercise in well attended enlarged Leadership meeting comprising the PPA management committee and other prominent stakeholders which held on Monday 11 January…
The United Nations Children’s Fund, which is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide, has stated that overwhelming evidence revealed that continuous closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted negatively on children development globally despite increasing evidence that schools are not drivers of the virus.…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed sadness over the death of the chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd) on Wednesday. Ndubuisi Kanu, a retired Naval Officer and former military governor of Imo State between 1976 and 1977, died at a hospital…
The announcement by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) that the NIN generated by the BVN can only be used after it has been updated at the NIMC enrolment centre has received huge criticism by Nigerians. This new order by the commission means that people who have NIN generated BVN due to its record harmonization…
With the high increase in the number of reported cases of COVID-19 infections, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha has stressed that factors that have contributed to rise in numbers from late November 2020 included increased local and international travels, business and religious activities, reopening of schools without strict…
Ahead of the general election in 2023, former Imo State Governor and a serving APC senator, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has called for a new political alliance between good leaders of like minds in the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) and the lead opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that both parties have…
After staying away from academic works for almost a year due to the lingering issues between ASUU and the Federal Government, the hope of Nigerian students resuming on Monday 18th of January despite calling off strike after an agreement was reached with the government is being threatened by a second wave. Even though states across…
The Ogun State Government has detected and ordered an immediate demolition of an illegal flyover bridge undergoing construction across Oluwa River, a boundary between Omo forest, Area J4 in Ijebu East and Ondo State. A statement by the Information Officer of the ministry, Soji Solarin, over the weekend stated that the Commissioner for Forestry, Tunji…
As the country battles with a daily increase in the number of infections for COVID-19 amidst a second wave, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria has surpassed 100,000 on Sunday January, 10th 2021. In its latest update, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 1,024 new cases thereby bringing the total…
With many countries strategizing for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) that kicked off at the beginning of this month, Dangote Industries Ltd has stated that its cement expansion plan and fertilizer investments will open new trade routes for the company and Nigeria under the trade deal. Already, the cement company, despite an installed…