PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved funding for the Second Niger Bridge two bypasses, Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria- kano and Lagos-Ibadan Highway. Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, who disclosed this at the weekend, did not disclose the total amount released. According to…
PAN-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has explained why two offices – those of Acting National Leader and Deputy Leader – were abrogated by the organisation. The body recently announced that Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who has occupied the position of…
RIGOBERT Song hopes the Indomitable Lions can record another important win against the Super Eagles at the Felix Houphouet Boigny. Cameroon won the first of her four AFCON titles on the ground in 1984. The Indomitable Lions defeated the then-Green…
THE Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has suspended the Permit for Non-Commercial Flight, PNCF, of Mattini Airline Services Limited following the crash-landing of its private jet with 10 persons onboard in Ibadan. Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection of…
Commissioner Chris Nehikhare, good evening. I read the public letter you wrote to our respected leader, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and have decided to reply. It is sad that in your desire to please your paymaster, you have ignored the obvious…
THE social media, billboards, radio and television stations are fraught like forming palm wines with appealing messages to delegates and voters in Edo State as the primaries that will culminate to the election in September draws closer daily. ‘Send me,…
By Hon. Inuwa Bwala BY the time I depart as the Chairman of Hawul Local Government Area of Borno state, I may have garnered enough imputes to write about the enclave and her people. But I want to start with…
THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) in Yaoundé signed a EUR200 million financing facility to support the Government of Cameroon in the implementation of its National Development Strategy. Dr. George Elombi, Executive Vice-President, Governance, Legal and Corporate Services, signed the facility…
Mauritania’s Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Abdessalam Mohamed Saleh, and the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.com) Deputy Managing Director for North Africa, Malinne Blomberg, signed, on Thursday in Nouakchott, financing agreements for two energy sector projects in Mauritania worth a…
UNITED Kingdom monarch, His Majesty King Charles III, has been admitted in a London hospital. The monarch was admitted on Friday to undergo a “corrective procedure” for an enlarged prostate, Buckingham Palace said. The 75-year-old king will be treated at…
