President of the Civil Rights Congress and human rights activist, Shehu Sani, has said the nomination of the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, among the ministerial nominees by President Bola Tinubu is a "tragedy".
The activist said this in an interview on Arise TV News which is making the rounds on social media on Friday.
Super Falcons player Asisat Oshoala made history Thursday, following Nigeria's 3-2 win against Australia at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Oshoala who came in as a substitute in the 63rd minute of the match played at Brisbane Stadium, scored Nigeria’s third goal in the 72nd minute, leading the country to victory and becoming the first Nigerian player (male or female) to score at three different FIFA World Cup.
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The Nigerian Senate has received the First Batch of President Tinubu’s much anticipated List of Ministers Designate
The List containing names of 28 ministerial nominees was Presented to the President of the Senate by the Cheif of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has notified its customers that by Nov. 24, 2024, all prepaid meters in its network will cease to accept credit tokens unless they are upgraded.
Lawmakers in Enugu State under the aegis of the Forum of 260 Ward Councillors In Enugu State, on Tuesday mourned and held a candle light procession for late Mr Sylvester Ofunwa.
It would be recalled that Ofunwa, the Councillor representing Eha-Ulo Ward in Nsukka Local Government Area, was murdered by suspected hoodlums within his house at his home-town in Eha-Alumona community on Sunday, July 16
The Zonal Coordinator of NEMA South-East, Mrs Ngozi Echeazu, made the call while speaking with newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday on proactive steps taken by the Agency before now.
Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
The Chairman of Anambra State Football Association (ANSFA), Gen Chikelue Iloenyosi, says that approval for Anambra State to own a football team just like other States in the country has been granted.
Iloenyosi made the announcement at Awka City Stadium during a press conference which preceded the round of 16 match between Awka Capital Elite Football Club (ACE FC) and Nkpor Veterans Recreation Club.
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has criticized Gov. Chukwuma Soludo led administration in Anambra for allegedly shutting down the Anambra State-owned National Light Newspapers without any reason made public.
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Festus Adedayo
Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms of the Bola Tinubu presidency were deafening. The reforms were termed bold and courageous. The most surgically painful of them, which drilled deep down into the marrows of Nigerians, was the removal of fuel subsidy. In a country that is almost totally dependent on PMS, the unbearable pains of the people reached ear-shattering decibel. Cars disappeared from the roads. Costs of transportation are tearing the roof, with rife social dislocations. Rates of crime have since been on the increase, with rising matrimonial disorder figures. Local political party panegyrists and their hirelings, in response to the harrowing pains that accompanied the policies, lapped up the time-worn cliché of “Rome was not built in a day” as requests for national patience. Why not allow a window into the counterpoise of that cliché, to wit that Rome was not destroyed in a day? With my eyes of metaphor, I see an unfolding disaster of Sobia that is afflicting villagers and townsmen.
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Festus Adedayo
In 2018 when news sieved in that that constellation of emeriti, Prof Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, had crept into Akure, Ondo State, our association, Ooye Development Initiative, (ODI) bated him like mousetrap does mice. Was Akure big enough to contain that hippopotamus-statured literary giant? I wondered. I, perhaps, was the most excited of the lot. I had read Omotoso’s works with doting wonder and imagined if he wasn’t a gnome or some genie. So, this day in September, as we drove towards the then pot-holes ridden Oda road to honour an appointment given us by the professor, I fantasized that I would meet a hippo. We waddled through a forest-like jungle into his home. We were later shocked to see that it lacked electricity but Omotoso didn’t mind.
