No fewer than five people were killed, scores unconscious, while others sustained serious injuries in a stampede at the entrance of Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Saturday. Thousands of football fans, who had thronged the stadium Read more
My dear Nigerians, October 1st remains a special date for all Nigerians as this marks the day when we attained one of the most precious of human desires — freedom. Over the years the country has gone through trials and Read more
Over 19,000 schools have so far been covered under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme. In total, 2,918,842 schoolchildren from 19,881 schools in the 14 pilot states of the federation have so far benefitted from the school feeding programme, Read more
Ever since President Buhari won the 2015 Presidential elections he was destined to win having labored in 2003, 2007, 2011 and then 2015 a very vast preponderance of South South and South East indigenes have descended on the President, pouring Read more
On Tuesday, the National Bureau of Statistics gave a lot of Nigerians the news they desperately wished to hear – Nigeria is out of recession. After five consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth that started in Q1 2016, Nigeria’s economy Read more
Nigeria officially out of a recession for the first time since 2016, as GDP grows 0.55% in Quarter 2 of 2017, for the first time in 5 quarters. The worst recession to ever hit the country. This information was released Read more
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, explained, yesterday, that the decision by stakeholders in education sector to reduce tertiary institutions’ admission cut-off points, beginning with the 2017 academic calendar, was to stop the quest for foreign education by Nigerians. Read more
Hope to pass proposal for the restructuring of the Federal Republic of Nigeria suffered a major set back as senators rejected two bills on the issue during the debate on the ongoing amendment of the 1999 Constitution by the Senate Read more
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has approved prominent human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo, along with 29 others as Senior Advocates Of Nigeria (SAN). Keyamo was shortlisted in 2014, 2015 and 2016, but failed to make the final cut. Keyamo made Read more
The gale of deportations of Nigerians from Europe continued yesterday with a set of 28 Nigerians deported from the United Kingdom (UK). This came 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and exactly a week after 34 were Read more