Governance

Poised to take the campaign against gender-based violence, particularly sexual abuse against women to a commendable level, the wife of the governor of Imo State, Mrs Chioma Uzodimma has inaugurated the sexual assault referral centre (SARC) in Owerri named “The Deborah House”. She said the activism against gender-based violence campaign has kicked-off globally.   Speaking […]

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has expressed confidence in the Igbo people, saying they have the potential to rule Nigeria if given the opportunity. The governor, who made the expression in Makurdi, the state capital, on Wednesday when Igbo PDP Forum paid him a courtesy visit, said the South-Easterners are accommodating and hard working. […]

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has announced a salary increment for workers in the state public office. Sanwo-Olu made this announcement on Tuesday during his courtesy visit to the Head, Office of Public Service in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos.

First Republic politician and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, on Thursday, said reverting to a regional system of government as being clamoured for can no longer help the Nigerian situation. Regional system of government is type of government where each region is allowed to control resources found in its domain, but only has to pay […]

Nigeria on Monday expressed commitment to tightening its diplomatic relations with China. Ambassador Baba Jidda made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Beijing. He spoke at the 2022 International Food Fair ceremony organised by the Commonwealth Society of Beijing (CSB) held at the embassy. Jidda recalled it had […]

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has questioned the Federal Government’s handling of the farmer-herder crisis. Speaking exclusively to Channels Television’s NewsNight, a pre-recorded program which airs every Monday, the literary icon wondered why the government was yet to ban cattle group, Miyetti Allah while it had proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra, a group seeking the secession […]

Former British equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, has launched a bid to become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party, a declaration that has continued to attract public endorsements. Ms Badenoch, who was born Olukemi Olufunto in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin, joined the race to succeed […]

President Muhamamdu Buhari has said that his administration is the only in Nigeria’s history to implement a solution to decades-long herder/farmer conflicts, exacerbated by desertification and demographic growth. In a correspondence with Bloomberg, the president asserted that the National Livestock Transformation Plan, putting ranching at its core, is the only way to deplete the competition […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the ruling party’s national convention to produce its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. The meeting which held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja had all members of the Progressives Governors’ Forum represented. Issues discussed focused on giving […]

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has dissolved the State Executive Council. Mr Kelvin Ebiri, the special assistant to the governor on media, who announced this in a statement on Tuesday said the dissolution of the cabinet was with immediate effect. He added that the Chief of Staff to the governor and his Senior Special Assistant […]