THE Bayelsa State Education Development Trust Fund (BYEDTF) has inaugurated a 9,000-litre water project at Comprehensive Secondary School, Toru Ndoro, in Ekeremor Local Government Area. The water project implemented in collaboration with the Sustainable Partnership Initiative for Development (SPID)…
PRINCE Harry settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Harry’s lawyer said a deal had been struck after NGN agreed to pay significant damages and admitted Harry,…
…Says “He Is A Remarkable Individual, Known For Being A Peacemaker; Humble, And A Philanthropist Per Excellence”. By Igbotako Nowinta TO successfully hit the septuagenarian mark (70 years) in life is really a thing of joy, that automatically calls for…
THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to President Bola Tinubu, demanding the reversal of the recent 50% hike in telecom tariffs. In a statement released on Tuesday, SERAP described the increase as “unlawful” and warned…
US’s 47th President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship, a decades-old constitutional guarantee granting citizenship to children born on US soil irrespective of their parents’ immigration status. The order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency of Nigeria (NiMet) has predicted sunny and hazy weather activities from Wednesday to Friday. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Tuesday in Abuja envisaged sunny skies in hazy atmosphere on Wednesday over the northern region of the…
THE Trade Union Congress has advocated that the Value Added Tax rate remains at 7.5 per cent as any increase will place additional financial burden on Nigerians. Mr Festus Osifo, TUC President said this in a statement on Tuesday…
THE Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt..-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, on Tuesday inaugurated a Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency Village at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the village was inaugurated and named…
U.S. immigration and border officials will be able to arrest migrants at so-called “sensitive” locations again, after the Trump administration overturned policies limiting where such arrests could happen. Officers will now be able to make arrests at designated “sensitive” areas,…
FRANCE’s judiciary on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on suspicion of complicity in war crimes, specifically relating to the death of a French-Syrian man in 2017. Investigating judges suspect al-Assad of complicity in…
