LASSMUN: World Needs Your Energy, Commitment, Guterres Tells Delegates At Lagos Schl

LASSMUN: World Needs Your Energy, Commitment, Guterres Tells Delegates At Lagos Schl

“The world needs your energy, courage and commitment. I draw hope from seeing your generation challenge the status quo and call for transformative change,” said the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, in his message to the Lagos State Secondary Schools Model…

NSCDC Delta Command: Repent Or Relocate, Be Caught, Face Justice  -Akinsanya Spits Fire To Criminals

NSCDC Delta Command: Repent Or Relocate, Be Caught, Face Justice -Akinsanya Spits Fire To Criminals

In line with the core mandate of the NSCDC to provide adequate and effective 24hours Security and protection of life and property, assist in maintaining peace and order in the country amongst others, our numerous functions, duties, programmes and impact are positively…

STEP Made Me Acquire More Professional Knowledge In Managing My Own Biz, Says STEPreneur Ellis

STEP Made Me Acquire More Professional Knowledge In Managing My Own Biz, Says STEPreneur Ellis

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: ELLIS EKENE EMMANUEL is the CEO of Vatigo Cakes and Catering located in Asaba. He hails from Ndokwa East Local Government Area. Though a graduate of Library and Information Science, his passion is to become his own boss with special…

ECOWAS Develops National Strategy To Enhance Protection, Security Of Nigerians

ECOWAS Develops National Strategy To Enhance Protection, Security Of Nigerians

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission in conjunction with stakeholders in Nigeria has developed a holistic, integrated coordination mechanism to enhance efforts in the protection and security of Nigerians. The ECOWAS mechanism for protection and human security for the…

NDLEA Nabs Church General Overseer With “Indian Hemp” Cannabis For “Personal Use” At Nairobi Crusade

NDLEA Nabs Church General Overseer With “Indian Hemp” Cannabis For “Personal Use” At Nairobi Crusade

The General Overseer of Christ Living Hope Church, Rev. Ugochukwu Ekwem has been arrested with 54 sticks of drugs wrapped around his body by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while…

Panel Orders Marwa to Present Abba Kyari to Explain Role in Case of Missing Persons

Panel Orders Marwa to Present Abba Kyari to Explain Role in Case of Missing Persons

Embattled Commander of IGP-Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari is in another legal battle, as the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct SARS and other units of the Nigerian Police Force, on Friday ordered the Chairman of…

APC Convention: Northern Christian Should Occupy Position Of Dep National Chairman North, Insists Coalition

APC Convention: Northern Christian Should Occupy Position Of Dep National Chairman North, Insists Coalition

A coalition of Christians of northern extraction in All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday asked that the position of the Deputy National Chairman, North of the party should be left to a Northern Christian to occupy. The Coalition stated this in a…

Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election Important To World – South Korean Envoy

Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election Important To World – South Korean Envoy

The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Nigeria, Kim Young-Chae, has asked Nigerians to ensure that the country’s 2023 presidential election is free and fair. He noted that the entire world is monitoring the electoral process in Nigeria and desirous of…

APC’s Zoning Arrangement Unjust to Southeast, Deepens Alienation, Say IPN

APC’s Zoning Arrangement Unjust to Southeast, Deepens Alienation, Say IPN

The Indigenous People of Nigeria ( IPN) has risen in condemnation of the zoning arrangements for political offices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) describing it as unjust to the people of the Southeast geopolitical zone and a danger to the unity…

USAID Announces Additional $10.6M in COVID-19 Assistance to Nigeria

USAID Announces Additional $10.6M in COVID-19 Assistance to Nigeria

The United States has announced additional $10.6 million to finance the boosting of COVID-19 vaccination efforts to reach a target of 600,000 people daily. A statement on Thursday by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said the funds will also support…

US$13 million Digital Governance Programme, Korea Calls for Timely Commitment from Nigeria

US$13 million Digital Governance Programme, Korea Calls for Timely Commitment from Nigeria

The Republic of Korea has called on Nigeria to fulfill her commitments in time, and support the set objectives of the US$13 million Digital Governance Programme. Speaking during the recently conducted two-week pre-kick-off survey for the project titled Project for Building Foundations…

Youth Group Tells Buhari To Sack NNPC, NMDPRA Heads Over Contaminated, Endless Fuel Scarcity

Youth Group Tells Buhari To Sack NNPC, NMDPRA Heads Over Contaminated, Endless Fuel Scarcity

President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by a civil advocacy group, the Youth Arise for Undiluted Leadership and Development Initiative to “replace” the heads of Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the…

Petitioner Seeks Compensation Of N10M For Alleged Arbitrary Arrest By Police

Petitioner Seeks Compensation Of N10M For Alleged Arbitrary Arrest By Police

A petitioner, Nnaemeka Orjiakor has demanded a compensation of N10 million from the police for alleged arbitrary arrest, detention and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in 2019. Orjiakor made this demand on Wednesday at the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations…

Askia Ogieh Points Path To Social Regeneration, As Delta Students Vow To Shun Cultism, Other Vices

Askia Ogieh Points Path To Social Regeneration, As Delta Students Vow To Shun Cultism, Other Vices

Students of Delta state origin have agreed to shun cultism, internet fraud, examination malpractice and other social vices in the society. The students took the decision at a one-day sensitisation and awareness programme tagged “Delta State Student’s Summit” with the theme “Role…

If Every Govt Initiates YAGEP, Unemployment Will Be Brought To Barest Minimum, Says YAGEPreneur Ezediunor

If Every Govt Initiates YAGEP, Unemployment Will Be Brought To Barest Minimum, Says YAGEPreneur Ezediunor

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: STEPHEN EZEDIUNOR was trained in the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) of the Delta State Government in the 2015/2016 cycle, having graduated from Federal Polytechnic, Oko where he obtained an HND in Business Administration. He was trained in poultry production…

House of Reps Resolves To Investigate Alleged Fraud, Illegalities At FERMA, As Elumelu Moves Motion

House of Reps Resolves To Investigate Alleged Fraud, Illegalities At FERMA, As Elumelu Moves Motion

The House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously resolved to investigate the alleged monumental fraud and illegalities going on at the Federal Road Maintenance Agency of Nigeria, FERMA. The House resolution was sequel to a motion moved by the Minority Leader of the…

BREAKING: Abba Kyari’s Investigator DIG Egbunike, Slumps, Dies

BREAKING: Abba Kyari’s Investigator DIG Egbunike, Slumps, Dies

Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) who was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, is dead. According to reports, Egbunike died on Tuesday, after he slumped in his office, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The DIG,…

BREAKING: PDP Submit Names To INEC To Replace Sacked Ebonyi Gov, Deputy

BREAKING: PDP Submit Names To INEC To Replace Sacked Ebonyi Gov, Deputy

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has submitted names of its nominees to replace the sacked Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe. The National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, made the disclosure on…

Petitioner Demands N115 Million Compensation For Police Brutality

Petitioner Demands N115 Million Compensation For Police Brutality

A complainant, Michael Uzoagba has demanded a compensation of N115 million from Nigerian Police for his alleged unlawful arrest, detention and property seizure in 2018. Uzoagba, made a plead for the compensation on Tuesday at the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights…

Osinbajo’s Wife Marks Hubby’s birthday at North East Children’s Centre in Maiduguri

Osinbajo’s Wife Marks Hubby’s birthday at North East Children’s Centre in Maiduguri

Wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, was in Maiduguri on Monday to visit the North East Children’s Learning Centre, which is a donor-funded school initiated by her husband on the 8th of March, 2017, during his 60th birthday. The school…

UK Holds Workshops For SARCS

UK Holds Workshops For SARCS

-From Our Special CORRESPONDENT: United Kingdom government has held training workshops for all 33 Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) and their main stakeholders in Nigeria. The workshops which held between 28 February and 4 March, were developed to offer critical support to…

Cocaine Deal: Abba Kyari, Others Arraigned In Court As 2 Co-Defendants Plead Guilty

Cocaine Deal: Abba Kyari, Others Arraigned In Court As 2 Co-Defendants Plead Guilty

-From Our Special CORRESPONDENT: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Monday arraigned the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and six others before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court 8, Abuja, on an eight count criminal charge…

“Police Killed My Two Boys Extrajudicially” – Mother Tells Panel

“Police Killed My Two Boys Extrajudicially” – Mother Tells Panel

-From Our Special CORRESPONDENT: A petitioner, Otomerhe Onaodowan, on Monday told the Independent Investigative Panel on human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police units in Abuja, how her two sons Collins Onaodowan and Owen Onaodowan were…

<strong>Delta Govt Trained Me, Now I Am Training Others, Says STEPreneur Azenuie</strong>

Delta Govt Trained Me, Now I Am Training Others, Says STEPreneur Azenuie

By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: AZENUIE ASHINEDU VERA hails from Ndokwa West Local Government Area. She is the CEO of Jojo Fashion Empire located in Okpanam. Vera was unemployed for four years after graduation, but her story changed when she enrolled in the Delta State…

YAGEP Made My Dream Come True After 5 Years of Joblessness, Says YAGEPreneur Torere

YAGEP Made My Dream Come True After 5 Years of Joblessness, Says YAGEPreneur Torere

–By Gertrude Onyekachukwu-UTEH: JOY TORERE is a Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) beneficiary in the 2019/2020 Cycle. She hails from Udu Local Government Area and has a B.Sc. ED in Agricultural Science from the Delta State University. She is a diligent young woman…

Ukraine: Flight To Evacuate Nigerians Rescheduled

Ukraine: Flight To Evacuate Nigerians Rescheduled

Contingent of Nigerians fleeing from Ukraine after the Russian invasion could not leave Poland on Thursday. They have had their flight rescheduled. The flight has since been rescheduled for Friday when they are expected to begin the nine hours journey to Abuja,…

Nigeria Reiterates Commitment To Global Environmental Sustainability

Nigeria Reiterates Commitment To Global Environmental Sustainability

Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to Global Environmental sustainability and achievement of the Country’s Nationally Determined Contribution’s (NDC) with 20% emissions reduction unconditionally and 47% emission reduction conditionally by 2030. The Minister who led the…

62,271 Schools In Nigeria Without Security, Laments NSCDC

62,271 Schools In Nigeria Without Security, Laments NSCDC

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi has lamented that about 62,271 schools across the country have no form of security presence, opening up the schools to kidnapping of students. Speaking at the commemoration…

Qatar Airways Launches First Direct Flight To Nigeria

Qatar Airways Launches First Direct Flight To Nigeria

Qatar Airways has launched its first direct flight from Doha in Qatar to Kano in Nigeria. Speaking at the event which held on Wednesday, the Nigerian Ambassador to the state of Qatar, Yakubu Abdullahi Ahmed, noted that the Qatar Airways has indeed…

Ukraine Invasion: Evacuation Only For Documented Nigerians -FG

Ukraine Invasion: Evacuation Only For Documented Nigerians -FG

Nigerian government has said that the evacuation from Ukraine is only for documented Nigerians and that any undocumented Nigerian would first have to set their record right with the nation’s embassies in Romania, Poland and Hungary. A statement by the Ministry of…

ATTAHIRU JEGA: THE “LAMENTATION” OF AN UMPIRE

ATTAHIRU JEGA: THE “LAMENTATION” OF AN UMPIRE

By Austen Akhagbeme Just yesterday, the former ASUU President and former INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, fired a familiar salvo, while speaking at the 2022 Workers’ political conference organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC in Abuja. The former electoral umpire who…

ECOWAS Condemns Ukraine Invasion, Calls for Dialogue

ECOWAS Condemns Ukraine Invasion, Calls for Dialogue

The Economic Community of West African States has condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russian Army, urging for ceasefire and immediate initiation of dialogue. The regional body in a statement made available on Monday to journalists said it has followed with great…

Ukraine Invasion: 479 Nigerians freed

Ukraine Invasion: 479 Nigerians freed

Four hundred and seventy-five (479) Nigerians may have been secured by Monday evening by the Nigerian government in the massive deployment of strategies to get its citizens liberated from Ukraine which is presently under Russian attack. A large percentage of the 479…

Ukraine Invasion: Hungary enacts new visa law to give refuge to fleeing foreigners

Ukraine Invasion: Hungary enacts new visa law to give refuge to fleeing foreigners

Hungarian government has come to the rescue of Nigerians and other foreigners fleeing troubled Ukraine by enacting a law that allows them to seek temporary refuge in Hungary. A statement by the Nigeria’s Embassy in Budapest, Hungary informed Nigerian nationals arriving from…