ACTRESS Lupita Nyong’o has openly condemned the Kenyan government for its heavy-handed response to mass protests against controversial tax measures, which erupted in June. The demonstrations, triggered by widespread discontent over new tax policies, have been met with a forceful…
Madam Oluremi Tinubu has donated one billion to the University of Ife. She wants the university to use the money to restore its dying landscape. That’s thoughtful. That’s a good cause. But tongues are wagging. Our universities have become shabby…
IT was on a Saturday morning when Abuja, Nigeria’s densely populated capital-city, experienced a lull from its noisy activities. Alas, the city is often criticised by its pioneer developers, that it comes short of a ‘serene’ administrative headquarters intended to…
THE Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Bank, has been lopsided in its appointments since its establishment in 2015, suggesting a blatant disregard for Nigeria’s Federal Character principle, SaharaReporters can report. SaharaReporters gathered that NIRSAL Bank has…
THE Kano State Anti-corruption and Public Complaints Commission has commenced an investigation into alleged N1.5 billion foreign scholarship fraud. The commission is questioning two top officials the state Ministry of Higher Education regarding the issue of 1,001 students purportedly studying…
THE Court of Appeal has granted a landmark appeal in the claim of two Nigerian communities whose environment has been devastated by oil pollution, allegedly caused by Shell plc’s Nigerian subsidiary SPDC. The appeal, which was granted on Friday 11…
THE Ondo State government has clarified that the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa is not the alleged woman abuser, seen in a viral video. A press statement issued by Comrade Allen Sowore, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Zulum has at the weekend commissioned the multi million naira lodges established to restore civil authority in Bayo and Kwaya Kusar local government areas in southern Borno senatorial district. The gigantic edifices newly built,…
Football fans can look forward to an exciting encounter as Nigeria is set to clash with Russia in a friendly match scheduled for 2025. The announcement comes from Russian journalist Bartlomiej Banasiew, who revealed that FIFA match agent Jairo Pachon…
PRESIDENT of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, has revealed the reasons the organized labour accepted the N70,000 minimum wage during the national minimum wage talks at the President Villa, Abuja. Ajaero, while fielding questions during the Morning Show…
