An erstwhile Foreign Affairs Minister, Bolaji Akinyemi, on Sunday, warned President Bola Tinubu not to get carried away by free access to loans from the Chinese government. Akinyemi during an interview on Channels TV charged President Tinubu to consider the implications…
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has appointed Ibrahim Umar as the new spokesman of the Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR). The appointment was announced by the immediate past spokesman of…
THE Senate ad hoc committee, established to investigate alleged economic sabotage in Nigeria’s petroleum industry, has indefinitely postponed its public hearing originally scheduled for September 10 to 12. The decision was announced late Sunday by the committee’s chair, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele…
Dr Musa Aliyu, the Chairman, Independent Corruption Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has stressed the need to build a unified front against corruption in the country. Demola Bakare, Spokesperson for the Commission (ICPC), in a statement on Sunday,…
NO fewer than 196 soldiers in the North-East and other theatres of operation have applied to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Taoreed Lagbaja, for voluntary retirement. The action comes amid worsening security challenges the military is currently…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two Chinese corporations to improve light and water supply in the territory. Wike disclosed this in a statement signed by…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it would appeal an order issued by Justice Isa Dashen of the Federal High Court in Bayelsa State against the Commission’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede. Justice Dashen stated that Olukoyede risked imprisonment for…
On Monday, September 2, Nigeria took huge leaps towards ending a 28-year scourge of fuel importation, when Dangote Refineries announced the commencement of the production of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol in our climes. It was a good…
JUPITER Lithium, a United Kingdom-based company, has pledged to accelerate Nigeria’s economic diversification by commissioning the country’s first tier-one lithium mining operation. This move aims to help Nigeria reduce its dependence on oil and transition towards a clean energy…
PROMINENT Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, has initiated a campaign to bring back the iconic pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin. The limestone bust, which was uncovered in 1912 at Tell el-Amarna,…
