AFRICA

UN Urges Nigeria To Commit Specific Percent of Budget To Addressing Gender Disparity

“Women are at the heart ofhuman capital for economic development in any nation." 

1 year ago

Gbonegun: Government Is Denying Ilaje Community Executive Positions In NDDC

He said that the government was being unfair by repeating instead of rotating communities in power.

1 year ago

Presidency Retracts Statement Claiming Tinubu Is First African Leader To Ring NASDAQ Closing Bell 

It said the error was based on the information provided by a third-party event organiser.

1 year ago

UK Reaffirms Commitment to Counter-Terrorism in Nigeria

“To enable us to respond, we must systematically build on our counterterrorism partnerships."

1 year ago

Lagos Police: No Ammunition Was Fired To Disperse Mohbad’s Supporters At Lekki Tollgate

“We adopted the least harmful method of crowd dispersal, following the failure of verbal persuasion; the use of teargas. Not…

1 year ago

US Advises Citizens Against Travelling To Nigeria

“Violent crime – such as armed robbery, assault, carjacking, kidnapping, hostage taking, roadside banditry, and rape – is common throughout…

1 year ago

Terrorism in Niger May Be Worse Than Borno’s If Not Checked, Says Governor Bago

He called for support from both local and international organisations to check the trend.

1 year ago

Police Exhume Mohbad’s Body for Autopsy

This was as Senate Committee Chairman on Creative Arts and Entertainment, Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo, has assured MohBad’s mother of…

1 year ago

Peter Obi, Samad Rabiu, Kanu Agabi, Imoke Affected as Wike Revokes 165 Plots of Land in FCT

The FCTA explained in a statement on Thursday, that the revocation was premised on the failure of the allotted owners…

1 year ago

Tinubu To Guterres: I’m Ready to Take Tough Decisions Even if They Make Me Unpopular

"If we engage in talk shops as real challenges wreak real havoc in real time, we will fail."

1 year ago