NATIONAL NEWS

The traditional ruler of Asaba, Delta State, the Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Obi Joseph Chike Edozien, is dead. Born on July 28, 1925, the Asagba died a few months before his 99th birthday anniversary. Details of his death are still sketchy as of press time but a statement by the Presidency said President […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, have issued a 14-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government. Their grouse is the non-implementation of the 16-point agreement between organised labour (NLC and TUC) and the Federal Government on October 2, 2023. Leaders of the NLC and TUC are sad […]

The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to put on hold its planned recall of heads of chancery from Nigeria’s foreign missions abroad. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance by Rep. Umar Ajilo during plenary in Abuja on Thursday. Presenting the motion, Ajilo said that Nigeria recalled all […]

President Bola Tinubu encouraged Nigerians to maintain a positive outlook on the country, underlining that optimism leads to success. The President said this in his speech during the launch of the 3,112 housing units in FCT, Abuja. He said: “Don’t think of your country negatively, before I left home this morning, I asked for the […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to flag off the construction of 3,112 housing units in the Karsana area of the Federal Capital Territory. The groundbreaking exercise, scheduled for Thursday is part of a Public-Private Partnership project signed in December 2023 between the Ministry and a consortium of companies comprising Continental Civil and General Construction […]

A bill for the amendment of the Electoral Act has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill which is sponsored by Honourable Francis Waive, proposes that the general elections be conducted on the same day to save money and time for the country as well as prevent bandwagon effect. The amendment also […]

The Senate has adjourned the quizzing of service chiefs over insecurity to February 13, 2024, to accommodate everyone involved in the management of security in the country. The security chiefs, who were present at the Senate chamber were billed to address the lawmaker on rising insecurity in the country today but the decision to widen […]

The governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, says poverty, unemployment, hopelessness and lack of education are the major reasons insecurity is festering in the Northwestern part of the country. Sani, on Wednesday, said that the issue of banditry and kidnapping in the North-west is different from that of insurgency in the North-East. “The North-West crisis […]

The Federal Government and its Angolan counterpart have officially united to enhance water supply and power generation within their respective borders. It reports on Wednesday that the collaborative effort was formalised during a crucial meeting when Dr Jose Bamoquina, the Angolan Ambassador to Nigeria, paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Water Resources and […]

The mass protest in Minna, Niger State, against rising food prices and worsening economic situation rattled the Bola Tinubu administration and partly influenced the decision of the president to issue marching orders to relevant officials to work out immediate measures to check rising food prices in the country. This was disclosed by the Minister of […]