President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians in the Diaspora to actively participate in the country’s Post-COVID-19 economic recovery efforts. A statement by the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Saturday said Buhari made the call in a video message to commemorate this year’s Diaspora Day, observed on July 25 of every year. The […]
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Top five African players of 2019/20 LaLiga season
From defence to midfield to attack, there were so many Africans who excelled during the past LaLiga campaign. Some of the best players in LaLiga history have come from Africa and, once again, many of the league’s stars of 2019/20 hailed from that continent. There were so many excellent performers this year and the Granada […]
Dogara decamps to APC again, meets Buhari
There are indications that the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, have dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, and returned to the All Progressive Congress (APC). Dogara who was sighted at the Presidential Villa Abuja on Friday, was said to have met President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, to pledge his […]
NDDC spent N1.3trn within four years, says Senate
Nigerian Senate ad hoc committee investigating the misappropriation of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission said the agency had spent N1.3 trillion within four years. In the report read on Thursday by the Senate Committee Chairman, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, the NDDC spent the N1.3 trillion between 2015 and May 31, 2019. Adetunmbi said many […]
Alleged N125bn fraud: Court adjourns ex-Bank PHB MD Atuche’s trial till Oct 14
Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, has adjourned till October 14, 2020, the trial of Francis Atuche, former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB, who is standing trial alongside Charles Ojo, former MD of Spring Bank, for an alleged N125 billion fraud. According to a statement issued on Thursday by […]
Ikpeazu assents to Abia’s revised 2020 budget of N102bn
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, Thursday, assented to the revised state 2020 Appropriation Bill of N120,660,432,904.00 recently passed by the State House of Assembly. Ikpeazu, in a speach after assenting to the revised budget, which also coincided with the welcome visit of members of the state House of Assembly at Government House Umuahia, thanked […]
AbdulRazaq visits, sympathises with NTA Ilorin over fire incident
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has sympathised with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) over the fire that gutted some sections of its Ilorin area office late Tuesday night. The governor, who was among the first responders around 1 am. on Wednesday, said that the inferno could have destroyed the entire facility but for the combined […]
