Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the stakeholders in the southern region would soon take a position concerning the 2023 presidential election.Wike spoke on Saturday at a reception organised in his honour by the Kalabari people.“The day the South will speak, Nigeria will shake,” the governor said.“We believe in the unity of this country,…
Russia has assembled at least 70 percent of the military firepower it likely intends to have in place by mid-month to give President Vladimir Putin the option of launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. officials say.The officials, who discussed internal assessments of the Russian buildup on condition they not be identified, sketched out a…
Thousands of people demonstrated in Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, on Saturday as mostly peaceful but noisy protests against vaccine mandates spread from Ottawa, the capital. The “Freedom Convoy” began as a movement against a Canadian vaccine requirement for cross-border truckers, but has turned into a rallying point against public health measures and…
The Emir of Daura in Katsina State, Dr Umar Farouq Umar, on Saturday stated that the emirate does not confer chieftaincy titles on personalities within and outside the country because of their financial status or political positions but based on merits.This is even as the monarch urged Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari to…
After a long break due to a frosty relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nigeria, the Emirates Airline on Saturday resumed operations in Nigeria with its Flight EK783 landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.The flight, which departed Dubai at 1030hrs landed in Nigeria’s busiest commercial city at 03.30 pm.Another…
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice. International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM is a UN-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on Feb. 6 as part of the UN’s efforts to…
A retired Permanent Secretary in Zamfara, Alhaji Ahmad Gummi, has urged Nigerians to continue to support the Nigerian Army in its efforts to tackle the country’s security challenges.Gummi said the call was imperative towards consolidating the tangible gains made by the Army in its ongoing security operations across the country.He said that such laudable achievements…
The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has developed oat seeds variety and indigenous inbred lines for maize hybrid to strengthen food production and revamp the non-oil sector of Nigerian economy. Prof. Mohammed Ishiyaku, the Executive Director of the institute, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…
By Johannes OluwatobiIn Nigeria, a 54 year old could pass for a young man; the political milieu is awash with oldies in their 60s still hustling and bustling. Those in their 40s are in fact on the waiting list—they are still quite young. For one born in the year 1968, in a town whose name…
