World’s leading consumer health and hygiene company, RB, alongside representatives from Save The Children, recently visited Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo at his office in Abuja to present a ‘Save a Child a Minute’ initiative to him. The programme is to tackle diarrhea in the country, which claims the lives of nearly 100,000 children under…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been implored to priotise the payment of the N800 billion owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, by the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan. This passionate call was made by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the…
A bilateral agreement was signed on Tuesday by Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, in Abu Dhabi. According a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the pact between the two countries is to cover finance, trade and judicial matters. Adesina explained that Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs…
Oba Samuel Odulana, the Olubadan of Ibadan land, has been reported dead. The respected monarch breathed his last on Tuesday evening at his palace at the age of 101. He passed on 86 days to his birthday and his remains taken to a morgue. Oba Odulana ascended the throne in 2007 as the 39th Olubadan…
Shortly after the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, was granted bail in the sum of N400 million on Tuesday, he was driven back to Kuje Prison in the evening in a prison vehicle with registration number PS 682 AA and with inscription, Kuje Prison, FCT Command, Abuja. His bail…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday granted bail to the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh. The court ordered Metuh to pay the sum of N400 million and provide two sureties in like sum. According to the court, the sureties must live in Abuja and swear affidavit…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it is aware of efforts of some elements to rubbish the party, especially through the ordeal of some of its leaders with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In a statement issued on Monday night by the National Secretary of the party, Prof. Adewale Oladipo, the PDP said…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will not send a congratulatory message to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on his re-election recently. Lai Mohammed made this disclosure on Monday in Abuja while addressing newsmen. He explained that the President decided not to follow the practice of his…
A report by Premium Times claimed the immediate past administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan paid some companies traced to his former attack dog to bring down online media platforms critical to his government. Below is the full report: Two companies linked to Doyin Okupe, a former media aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, got at least…
A northern youth group has backed Minister of Interior, Abdulrahaman Dambazzau, over the cleaning of his shoe recently in public by a security official attached to him. An officer of the Department of State Services, DSS, was pictured cleaning the shoe of Dambazzau with a white piece of cloth at a function in Abuja, which…