Anambra State Government has mobilised Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (Ocha Brigade) and a Special Task Force on Revenue Enforcement for collection of revenue in markets in the state. While addressing the market leaders at Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce, Mr Uchenna Okafor, urged them to get their market task force ready for work. The ...

…procures 250,000 face masks, donates 30,000 to secondary school students The first indigenous medically graded face mask manufacturing company has opened in Lagos State. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, opened the O-Care Medical Face Mask factory in Odofin Park Estate, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of the State, saying the development was timely. The factory is a subsidiary of Transgreen ...

There is palpable anger across the South East following the recent statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Malam Mamman Daura, that rotational presidency had been discarded ahead of the 2023 presidential election. He said the election would be thrown open for any qualified Nigerian to contest. But prominent Igbo leaders said Daura was not sensitive to the mood of the ...

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Committee, Mai Mala Buni, said on Thursday that the purported  2023 presidential ticket of a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and former Speaker, Yakubu Dogara was mere rumour. Buni, who is also the Yobe State governor, said the APC would spring a surprise in the September governorship election in ...

The Nigerian Army has dismissed over 300 soldiers from service for deserting the Operation Lafiya Dole counter-insurgency campaign in the North-East and going away without leave, among other allegations. Findings by our correspondent revealed that the men were disengaged by their unit commanders between 2015 and 2016. Investigations showed that some of the soldiers were also discharged for certificate forgery, age fraud, ...

• I’ll recruit local hunters to secure Baga if soldiers can’t, Zulum says after attack Widows and other victims of the  Boko Haram insurgency  in Borno State have berated the Federal Government for taking care of the insurgents at the expense of  the internally displaced persons. The IDPs stated this in a report published on the BBC Hausa Service website ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last elections, Mr Peter Obi, has called for unified efforts against the scourge of viral hepatitis, described as an inflammation of the liver that causes a range of health problems, including liver cancer. Obi made the call through a message from his media office commemorating the World Hepatitis Day ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has described the late Senator Ayo Fasanmi, a founding leader of the Afenifere as a true patriot, a forthright servant of, and interlocutor for the common man…” Prof. Osinbajo issued the following statement on Thursday on learning about the news of Pa. Fasanmi’s transition. “We received the news of the passing of Senator Ayo Fasanmi, ...

 …as army reacts to attack on Borno Governor’s convoy by Boko Haram  A trooper of the Nigerian Army serving in 202 Battalion of 21 Special Armoured Brigade Bama, Borno State, went beserk yesterday, July 29, 2020 and fired at an officer (a Subaltern) which led to his death. The incident happened when the soldier approached the officer who was standing ...

By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Federal Government of Nigeria’s National and Social Investment programme with particular reference to N-power which started four years ago, has been welcomed, accepted and adjudged by many as a life-changing initiative of the current administration, led by President Muhammadu Buhari. It is aimed at lifting many especially unemployed youths out of poverty as well as empowering ...