The Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole has discarded rumours and panics created by some individuals that the people of Bama, Dikwa and Monguno in Borno State should vacate their respective communities. In a press statement issued by the theatre’s Deputy…
Written by: Stephanie Desmon – Blecyn George Monsi has more than 50,000 Twitter followers. Alaka Olanrewaju Mayowa has nearly 54,000. Victor Salami Aka Baba Ibeji has 253,000. On a recent Friday, all three of these Nigerian social media influencers were…
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has constituted a gender sensitive campaign team for her President Muhammadu Buhari second term election campaign. This is contained in a statement signed by the wife of the president where she appoints Abdul Mumin…
The Governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola on Thursday presented the 2019 budget before the state house of assembly. Mr Oyetola presented N152.756 billion. The education sector is having allocation of N10,447,801,800. This is equivalent to 11% of the budgetary…
Health, Education, Advocacy and Livelihood (HEAL) for Africa Initiative, an NGO, said on Saturday that it distributed foodstuffs to 100 women and fed more than 300 children in Lokoja. Dr Kelechi Okoro, founder of the NGO, who disclosed this at…
Hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing services may have ended in private pockets of contractors and government officials, as companies were specifically registered to siphon funds meant to save the lives of the infected. …
The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has commended the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, and the Board of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) for the reinstatement of Murtala Ibrahim, a whistleblower…
By Mayowa Tijani – About two weeks ago, I got a call from a friend, who is currently studying for a master’s degree in the United States. She was in a dilemma; the dilemma of virtually every Nigerian student abroad,…
Edward Kallon is the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, a country that recently exited a painful economic recession. At the same time, insecurity stemming from the continuing terrorist activities of Boko Haram insurgents has not abated. Under…
By: EKENE ODIGWE Support systems are relied on when things aren’t going well or when one is not feeling too great. Havens knows we all need support and encouragement every now and then, for it is such a tough road to…
