In the deliberate policy to give more freedom to women, Saudi Arabia has permitted the enlistment of women in the army. The country continues to enact reforms granting females more access to a wide range of previously forbidden careers. Women…
Year: 2018
THE SHRINKING OF LAKE CHAD HAS BECOME A GLOBAL CALAMITY- BUHARI
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad Republic are threatened by the shrinking of the Lake Chad Basin. The president also said “the situation in the Lake Chad has left over 40 million people in dire need of…
THE TRAGEDY OF A NATION- REUBEN ABATI
Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been disallowed…
KGS DESCRIBES LEADERS OF SAVE KOGI PROJECT AS ‘BUNCH OF FAILURES’
Kogi State Government has described leaders of the Save Kogi Project as a “bunch of failures,” who are unsettled by the giant strides the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello is recording in the state. Reacting to a statement by the…
KADUNA RELIGIOUS CONFLICT: EL-RUFAI DEMANDS PROSECUTION OF CULPRITS
No fewer than seven persons were killed, yesterday, while 15 others were injured, as Christian and Muslim youths clashed at Kasuwan Magani Local Government Area of Kaduna State over forcible conversion and dating of girls of opposite faith several houses…
DAPCHI: SECURITY AGENCIES TRADE WORDS
The Nigeria Police Force on the evening of Monday, February 26, reacted to a statement earlier released by the Nigerian army claiming that the security of Dapchi town was handed to the Police before the army withdrew its troops. It…
N 700 MILLION FRAUD: EFCC ARRAIGNS BANKER
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos Zonal Office,on Monday, February 26, 2018, arraigned one Nsa Ayi before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on fraudulent false accounting…
APC NEC APPROVES ONE YEAR EXTENSION FOR EXECUTIVES
The All Progressives Congress, APC, party has extended the tenure of its National Working Committee (NWC) and other executives by one year. While announcing the extension at the party’s end of the year meeting on Tuesday in Abuja, the APC…
2019: OKOROCHA DECLARES SENATE AMBITION
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has announced that he will be contesting the Imo west senatorial seat in 2019. The governor made the announcement on Sunday, February 25, when inaugurating members of Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission…
MINIMUM WAGE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER- NGIGE
The federal government has assured Nigeria Labour Congress and entire labour workforce that the new national minimum wage will commence, latest by end of September 2018. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, declared on Monday that the…