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The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Tor Uja has called on the Federal Government to strengthen local airlines in the country to become a global business sector. Uja made the call at the closing ceremony of the conference of Pilgrimage and Managers of Nigeria, held at the Goshen City in Nasarawa State. […]

Nigeria and the People’s Republic of China has signed a bilateral agreement of over eight million China’s Yuan (about 400 million naira) for various projects in the FCT. The projects were feasibility studies of the second phase of the Abuja Solar Powered Traffic Control Signal, Agricultural Demonstration Centre and the 2016 Bilateral Training Programmes. This […]

President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mr. Kanayo Nwanze says Africa spends $35 billion a year on food importation. This is contained in a statement issued by the IFAD and made available to Economic Confidential in Abuja. Nwanze stated this at the opening of a three-day African Union-European Union Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, […]

Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the pan-Yoruba socio-political body, Afenifere, have faulted the position of President Muhammadu Buhari on the unity of Nigeria. The two Southern Nigerian organisations said on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 that the president was mistaken and that the unity of the country was open for negotiation. The president, while speaking […]

In response to the renewed restiveness in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, July 7, 2016 appointed a new chief of defence Intelligence, CDI, for the Nigerian Armed Forces in the person of Mohammed Usman, an air vice marshal. Usman takes over from  John Saduana Davies, a major general who had been on […]Read More

A federal high court on Friday, July 8, 2016  adjourned the case of the embattled former PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, till Oct. 27 and Oct. 31. The judge, Justice Okon Abang, while announcing the new date for the case at about 4:45 p.m said that the case had to be adjourned because he would not […]

NAN – A man, Monday Usifo, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating his wife over late preparation of meal. The forty-five year old engineer who lives at Ketu Alapere, a suburb of Lagos is being tried for assault in what prosecutor’s describe as a terrible case of domestic violence. The […]Read More

An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state’s capital on Friday, July 8, 2016 adjourned to Tuesday, July 8, 2016 hearing of application for state of execution of June 3 judgment allowing Muslim students to wear Hijab to the state public schools. The Osun State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, […]

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia has banned child marriages, the AFP news agency reports. According to the report, Jammeh announced a 20-year jail term for any man “who marries a girl under 18 years” and a heavier sentence of 21 years for the parents of the girl. Anyone who fails to report the marriage of […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari may have struck a $258 million deal with a Saudi Arabia ‘Blackwater’ military contractor to help the Nigerian Armed Forces in fighting militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the southern part of Nigeria. According to a website, Vaxity, a staff of the Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in […]Read More

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter The remains of late Umaru Shinkafi who died Wednesday afternoon was laid to rest at exactly 2.56pm at Hubbare, the burial site of Sokoto Caliphate’s pious and noble, in Sokoto after funeral prayers held at the Sultan Bello Mosque. Dignitaries from all walks of life witnessed the event, which […]

Fayose with mammoth crowd to show he’s in charge By Simon Ateba/Lagos A mammoth crowd in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ekiti on Friday was meant to show that Governor Ayodele Fayose was still the man of the people who has remained unscathed by recent corruption allegations by the Federal Government. About […]Read More