PETER Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, has reacted to reports that Anthony Blicken, United States of America, USA, […]
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Hamidat Doyinsola Abiola
JOURNALIST and administrator, 71, February 1. Born in Lagos, she studied in Nigeria and
78 ex-US ambassadors write Trump over ‘Shithole’ comment
THE recent ‘shithole’ comment credited to President Donald Trump of the United States …
IGP orders Police Commissioners to be on Red-Alert
FOLLOWING the warning by the United States of America and the United Kingdom missions …
What Buhari told World Bank chief by Adesina
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari did not tell World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim to ignore …
Venezuelan President urges Military to Prepare for War with US
VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro called on his nation’s military leaders Tuesday to …
Nigeria buys Fighter Jets from Russia, US, Pakistan, UAE
AIR Marshal Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff, has said the Nigerian Air Force is …
UNGA: Buhari travels to New York Sunday
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to leave Abuja on Sunday for New York to join other world leaders …
Attention Everybody!
By Tola Adeniyi EVEN as we shout and scream at each other and we are clamouring to destroy the temple […]
Nigeria Will Continue To Fight Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property – Minister
LAI Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has promised that the federal …
Governor Okorocha Tears Obazu Community Apart
Governor Rochas Okorocha is instigating blood feud in Obazu by creating the Amato-Obazu community which the indigenes, both home and abroad, have rejected …
Airtel Launches New Roaming Service
IN keeping with its vision of enriching the lives of its customers, Airtel Nigeria, leading telecommunications service provider, has launched a new roaming service. This will enable its subscribers receive unlimited free incoming calls when roaming in five major countries across five continents. …
Birthdays
Eniola Bello, journalist, columnist, 51, July 21. Born in Aiyetoro-Gbede, Kogi State, he was educated at Onuydo Grammar School; University of Lagos and University of Ilorin. Bello worked with Daily Times, Vanguard, African Concord and PM News, all in Lagos. He is the managing director of …
Nigerian Girl Makes Country Proud in US
Jewel Olachi Nkwocha, 21, makes First Class Honours in Biomedical Engineering at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States of America …
Buhari’s Total War on Boko Haram
President Muhammadu Buhari is seriously working on his plan to totally eliminate Boko Haram insurgents by relocating the military command centre to Maiduguri and rallying international support for the war against the group …
US Consulate Lauds Nigerian Press
Jeffrey Hawkins, consul general, United States Consulate in Nigeria praises Nigerian media for their effective coverage and voter education during the just ended political campaigns and general elections in the country …
OTC Honours Achievement Award Recipients May 3
The Offshore Technology Conference will honour the 2015 Achievement Award Recipients at the annual dinner on May 3, in Houston, Texas, United States of America …
Lower Niger Congress Calls for Restructuring of Nigeria
The Lower Niger Congress, a non-violence organisation, is canvassing for the restructuring of Nigeria to ensure that no group is marginalised …
Union Advises Buhari Not to Sack Workers
Nigerian workers have asked Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, president-elect, not to listen to the advice to decapitate the civil service …
ECOWAS Ministers Canvass Measures Against Ebola
Ministers in charge of women affairs and gender in the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States at a meeting in New York, United States of America canvass measures to ensure that the Ebola Virus Disease does not have a negative impact on women in the region …
Birthdays
Babafemi Ojudu, journalist, senator and former managing editor, The News magazine, 55, March 27. He was educated at Emmanuel Primary School, Ado-Ekiti, 1967-1972; Ado Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti, 1973-1977; Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, 1980-1984; University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, …
US Ends Ebola Mission in April
The United States of America is to end its Ebola Virus Disease relief mission to West Africa on April 30 …
Obama: Patient Dog or Chained Lion?
THANKS to Edward Snowden, the cat has been let out of the bag. From his sanctuary in Moscow, Russia the former “Consultant” to the American National Security Agency, has spilled the beans on “the 24/7 Group”. It turns out that the group is neither faceless nor sinister. Indeed, it is no big deal –the …
Events of the Year: Economy
NIGERIA’s economy in the year 2014 had a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly. In the first quarter of the year the nation was greeted with the good news that the country has rebased its gross domestic product, GDP, from 1990 to 2010, resulting in the 89 percent increase in the estimated size of …
Marriage by Divine Intervention
Enuma Chigbo, a media consultant, from Umuoji in Idemili Local government area of Anambra State, has married Richard Phillips, a financial consultant from Jamaica …
Global Alliance Against Boko Haram
– The United States of America leads a global alliance to help Nigeria combat Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East […]
Legislators Ban Public Smoking
– The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a Bill banning smoking in public places | By Anayo Ezugwu […]
Abdulmutallab in Life Imprisonment
– The Appeal Court in the United States of America has finally upheld the life imprisonment sentence a lower court […]