Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has assured corps members that they would start receiving N77,000 minimum wage.Speaking in Abuja when he commissioned a staff bus donated by Capital Express Insurance company, the DG said arrangements for their increased allowances to be paid have been concluded. He assured corps members…
The Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, is scheduled to arrive in Abuja on Wednesday for an official visit. During the visit, Yi who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, will engage in discussions aimed at strengthening ties between Nigeria…
The Borno State Executive Council has approved the renaming of the state-owned university to Kashim Ibrahim University in honour of the first governor of the defunct Northern region. The decision was reached during the first State Executive Council meeting of 2025, chaired by Governor Babagana Zulum. The meeting, which ended Monday night at the Government…
Justice K. B. Olawoyin, presiding over Court 8 of the Oyo State High Court, Ring Road, Ibadan, has fixed Tuesday, January 13, to deliver his ruling on the bail application filed by Ooni of Ife’s ex-queen, Naomi Silekunola, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat, and Abdulahi Fasasi. Hamzat is the proprietor of Agidigbo FM, an Ibadan-based radio station;…
Abia North Senator, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said no president in the history of Nigeria has implemented the kind of decisions President Bola Tinubu is taking. Kalu said Tinubu removed subsidy which former President Olusegun Obasanjo failed to do while in office. He disclosed this on Monday while addressing a gathering at the Arochukwu Local…
A fire outbreak has completely razed down a Cross River State High Court in Ogoja. The incident was said to have occurred on Sunday at about 7pm. Eyewitnesses said the court, located at the Government Reserved Area, GRA, Ogoja, was completely razed, adding that there was nothing left to be salvaged. Though the cause of…
The Yemen mediator of the United Nations, UN, Hans Grundberg, on Monday, arrived in Yemen’s capital as part of a bid to subdue heightened tensions in his first visit in almost two years. The trip comes following intensified Israeli and U.S. strikes on Houthi strongholds in the past two weeks in response to the Iran-backed…
Ghana’s new president John Mahama secured a huge comeback to the top job eight years after leaving power, tapping into economic frustrations in the gold-producing West African country. Mahama, who had tried twice before to win back the presidency, was sworn in on Tuesday alongside Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the first woman to become vice president…
The Labour Party has raised alarm over what it describes as threats to democracy and freedom of speech in Nigeria, following alleged remarks targeting its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. A party chieftain, Marcel Ngogbehei, has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene, claiming that recent statements by Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the…
Nigeria’s opposition leader, Peter Obi, has congratulated John Mahama on his inauguration as the new president of Ghana. Mahama was sworn in on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, alongside Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the first woman to become vice president in Ghana. In his congratulatory message, Obi urged Mahama to strive to always be exemplary in his…
