President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his condolence to the family of former Managing Director of Champion Newspaper Nigeria and one of Africa’s foremost Public Relations practitioners, Bob Ogbuagu. President Buhari also commiserates with all the professional colleagues of the late Ogbuagu. “Ogbuagu consistently followed the path least travelled by many in his profession in order […]

Dr Maikanti Baru, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has urged members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG) to participate in the forthcoming bid round for 30 marginal oil fields. A statement by NNPC Spokesperson, Mr Ndu Ughamadu in Abuja , said Baru made the call when he received a delegation […]

The Coalition of Northern Groups has withdrawn the quit notice given to the Igbo living in the North to leave before October 1. The withdrawal of the quit notice was announced in Abuja on Thursday evening by the leaders of the group at a press conference. Before the announcement was made, members of the group […]

SOME Vice-Chancellors and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have rejected the decision of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to peg admission cut-off mark at 120 for universities and 100 for polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education. ASUU said the action, which it described as a “sad policy decision,” was in tandem “with the […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday took a swipe at the move by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to curb hate speech. The ex-leader shared a picture of a quote he made on Facebook in 2014. The post read in part, “I am the most abused and insulted President in the world but when I […]

The Nigeria Police Force says four men from the Lagos State Police Command have been detained for allegedly extorting money from a resident under duress. The policemen were said to have been taken into custody after the report of the alleged extortion went viral on the social media on August 17, 2017. It was stated […]

The Executive Director, Prisoners’ Rights Advocacy Initiative, Ahmed Adetola-Kazeem, has decried the poor state of prisons in Lagos State, especially Badagry Prison. Adetola-Kazeem, in a letter to the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, dated August 18, 2017, noted that despite the fact that prisons were funded and managed by the Federal Government, inmates in prisons […]

The Southern Leaders Forum on Wednesday in Lagos faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that issues of national discourse should be taken to the National Assembly and the National Council of State. Buhari made the statement among others in his Monday broadcast after 104-day medical trip to the United kingdom. The forum, represented by Chiefs Edwin […]

A former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was on Wednesday booed by workers at a colloquium organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress to discuss the agitation for restructuring of the country. Oshiomhole was among five discussants at the colloquium in Abuja, with the theme, ‘The Labour Movement and the future of a United […]

The founder of Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on Wednesday slammed the Federal Government for reducing the cut-off mark for admission into universities, polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education for the 2017/2018 academic session. The legal luminary described the reduction as violence to the university system and a major setback to […]