African countries unite against climate injustice at African People’s Counter Cop 2024
Local communities, civil society organizations and climate justice activist have converged in Saly, Senegal for the African People’s Counter COP (APCC) which started on Monday the 7th of October 2024,…
Tunde Akanni: Ishaq Oloyede as living expression of positive force
By Tunde Akanni PhDBy the time the strong-willed, former Education Minister in the President Olusegun Obasanjo government, Oby Ezekwesili, lent her voice to the controversial JAMB result forgery saga involving…
Lagos not affected by court order stopping VIO from impounding vehicles – Commissioner
Oluwaseun Osiyemi, The Commissioner for transportation in Lagos, on Tuesday said the judgment of the federal high court in Abuja that stops the directorate of road traffic services from stopping…
Hajj fare nears N10m as NAHCON announces end to FG’s forex subsidy
Hajj Fare To Hit N10m as NAHCON announces end to forex subsidy The federal government will not subsidise hajj payment for pilgrims in 2025, The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria…
LP leadership crisis: Victorious Abure offers to reconcile with Otti/Obi faction
National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has called on the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi, to help mediate in its internal crisis to unify the…
I never directed NNPCL to stop running its own refineries – Lokpobiri
Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil) has denied ever asking the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to stop running its own refineries and focus solely on…
Industrial Training Fund announces Osun as South-West Zonal Headquarters
The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has announced Osun State as its South-West Zonal Headquarters. The development was disclosed to the Special Adviser to Governor Ademola Adeleke on Technical and Vocational…
Kebbi villagers celebrate after killing, feasting on meat of ‘killer hippo’
Residents of Yauri, in Kebbi state are celebrating after an hippopotamus - along with its calf - was killed by rice farmers and fishermen in a hunt lasting several weeks.…
Prince Charles Dickson: Nigerian Airways, Air Nigeria and the air we breath
By Prince Charles Dickson PhD "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” –Socrates. One of the…
Children in west Africa are often sent to live with other families to help them get ahead – but fostering may be doing the opposite
By Pearl S. Kyei In west Africa, it’s common for families to foster children informally. This helps ease the burden on parents and can give children from poorer families a…
