President Bola Tinubu has issued an instruction requiring that the National Pledge should be recited after the National Anthem at every event. The information was passed at the Renewed Hope City project’s groundbreaking event in Karsana, Abuja, where the president Tinubu emphasized the need of honouring basic principles and paying respect to national authority. During…
A petroleum products dealer in Akure, Ondo State capital, has committed suicide after killing his wife The man, Sesan Adelabu, reportedly macheted his wife, Bolu Adelabu, to death in their residence at Alagbaka GRA area of the city on Friday. After killing his wife, Adelabu, popularly known as Emirate, the name of his retail outlet,…
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners says its members will take to the streets naked, if the welfare of pensioners in the country does not improve significantly any time soon. The National President of the union, Godwin Abumusi, told journalists at a news briefing in Abuja on Friday that his union will take the action to…
Hungarian President Katalin Novak has resigned following outrage sparked by a decision to pardon a man implicated in child sexual abuse case. In a statement announcing her resignation Novak apologised to those who are hurt and all the victims who may have had the impression that she did not support them. I am, I was…
The World Bank reveals that seven northern states in Nigeria are at risk of food insecurity in 2024. In its current food security report, the World Bank stated that insecurity and armed conflicts would plunge three northeastern states and four northwestern states into a food crisis. The states highlighted are Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Kaduna, Katsina,…
The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, Lanre Onilu, has disclosed plans to introduce nationalism as a compulsory subject in the nation’s education curriculum to help inculcate positive ethics and values in the coming generations. Onilu stated this in Minna during a familiarisation visit to the Niger State directorate of the agency. He decried…
The Group Chief Executive Officer, Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, has been reported dead. Wigwe was said to have died following a helicopter crash in California near the Nevada border, United States of America. However, it’s not confirmed whether his wife or children were involved. New York Times reports that no survivors have been located…
The Member representing the South-East on the Governing Board of the North-East Development Commission, Rep. Sam Onuigbo has been inaugurated as the Chairman of the Climate Change Trade Group of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). Onuigbo, sponsor of Nigeria’s Climate Change was inaugurated during the inauguration Ceremony of the 12th President of…
A Pro-democracy group, the Abia Rejoice Movement(ARM), on Friday, lauded the Governor Alex Otti on the recent flag-off and commencement of the reconstruction of umuahia-uzuakoli-Akara-Abiriba-Ohafia road. In a statement issued on Friday on behalf of its leader, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, the Abia movement hailed Governor Otti-led administration for its pragmatic intervention to fix the…
One killed on Friday, while several police cars were vandalised at the Jabi-Dakibiyu police post, following a violent protest in the Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. An eyewitness, who identified himself as Musa, said youths armed with sticks, stones, and other dangerous objects descended on police cars parked outside the station…
