Ten petitioners have so far approached the Appeal Panel set up by the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress to consider petitions from aggrieved members in the just concluded ward congresses in Bauchi State. Chairman of the panel, Blessing Agbamhere, said this at a press conference at the Command Guest House, Bauchi, on Wednesday….
By Trust Africa News,Ayomide Otitoju Editor The 2021 Afrikanwatch Network Communications lecture and award will hold on August 21 at the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos, under the Chairmanship of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, as Prof. Solomon Akinboye would deliver the theme of the lecture titled, The Kind…
Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, is expected to be joined by a stellar lineup of speakers as he chairs this year’s Ripples Nigeria Dialogue with the theme “Rebuilding trust in a divided Nigeria: Advancing the Conversation”. The dialogue is jointly organised by Ripples Nigeria and its non-profit sister organisation, Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism…
Embattled Yoruba nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has been in the eye of the storm since he was ‘arrested’ by the operatives of Brigade criminelle (Criminal Brigade) on July 19 in Cotonou. The Nation reports before Igboho’s arrest, his Ibadan home was raided by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), who…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a steering committee to oversee the process of implementation of the newly signed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). The steering committee is headed by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva. The president, who announced this while marking the passage the PIA which he signed into law on Aug. 16,…
The United Arab Emirates is hosting President Ashraf Ghani “on humanitarian grounds”, after he fled Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover, the Gulf nation has confirmed. “The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the ministry…
Seven people have been killed in an attack on a convoy transporting workers to a Shell oil and gas project in Nigeria’s southeast, police say. No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, but southeast Nigeria has seen a wave of deadly violence targeting security personnel and government facilities since the beginning of the year. Police…
On Sunday, the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan after a few weeks of stunning military victories. The armed group had been toppled in a US-led invasion in 2001 following the September 11 attacks on US soil, but it gradually regained strength, carrying out numerous attacks on foreign as well as Afghan forces in the…
London, United Kingdom – The collaboration between whistle-blowers and journalists has for years led to major revelations about corruption and the abuse of power in the United Kingdom. In 2013, journalists exposed the scale of mass surveillance carried out by Western governments through documents leaked by the National Security Agency (NSA) dissident, Edward Snowden. In 2009,…
