NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday, charged Nigerian leaders to accept the inevitability of decentralising the county. Soyinka, who was the guest lecturer at the 50th anniversary lecture of the PUNCH, noted that virtually every Nigerian leader recognised the importance…
LEADER of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, has hailed former military head of state, Yakubu Gowon, for his courage in calling on Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Heads of States to lift sanctions on some…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has been asked by the House of Representatives to thoroughly examine the Oronsaye report before going ahead with its implementation. In plenary on Thursday, Kama Nkemkanma and two other members presented a resolution of urgent public importance,…
THE Nigerian Senate on Thursday recognized Kogi State as an oil producing State. The recognition followed a matter of personal explanation relating to the oil producing status of Kogi State, through Order 42 of the Senate Standing Orders, presented by…
President Bola Tinubu A nominee for membership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board of Directors, Urum Kalu Eke, has declined the offer, citing his current engagement with the World Bank. Trojan News reports that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will bar over 42 million inactive mobile numbers from February 28, 2024. Recall that in December 2020, the Federal Government announced the integration policy of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) into the National Identification Numbers (NIN) database, as a…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri BORNO State Government under the leadership of Governor Babagana Zulum said, it will appeal to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rescind the decision by the federal government of merging Nigerian Army University Biu (NAUB) with Nigerian…
NIGERIANS have been experiencing poor electricity supply and development challenges because the country still needs to fix three major things in that critical sector, a former Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, told Prime Business Africa in Enugu. Nnaji, now…
FORMER Governor of Anambra State and presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, has called on journalists to sustain the efforts to safeguard democracy. Obi, who made the call inAwka during a meeting of…
President Bola Tinubu •Says Akeredolu was a fearless defender of truth •President is Aketi’s brother, friend — Akeredolu’s widow PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration will restructure the country as promised earlier, but noted that a good…
