Blogs

NNAMDI Kanu's lawyer Aloy Ejimakor has announced that his client will appeal the life imprisonment sentence delivered on him today by Justice James Omotosho of the federal high court in Abuja.

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[1] Launching a Maglev train service connecting several major Nigerian cities that runs at a world record speed of 600km per hour

[2] Opening the world's largest milk processing plant with a capacity of about 5bn litres a year

[3] Launching the world's largest solar farm generating about 2,000MW

[4] Opening the world's biggest shipyard in the Niger Delta

[5] Building mankind’s biggest automobile assembly plant to produce electric vehicles

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has put off his planned trips to southern Africa to attend the 20th G20 Summit in Johannesburg and the seventh AU-EU Summit in Luanda in response to the recent abduction of 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State.

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[1] Governors of the 19 states of northern Nigeria will make land available so the country’s cotton cultivation area is increased to at least 2m hectares

[2] Nigeria’s Bank of Industry will make loans available to all cotton farmers at an interest rate no higher than 2%

NIGERIA'S minister of arts and culture Hadjia Hannatu Musawa has finally received two pieces of bronze artefacts from a Boston museum that were looted during the 1897 Massacre of Benin.

DISPIRATE fighting continues to dog Nigeria's main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after a faction loyal to Federal Capital Territory minister Nyesom Wike responded to his expulsion over the weekend by announcing the expulsion of three governors.

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[1] I wonder if Nigerians noted how certain companies and countries exploited the economic openings the Coronavirus pandemic provided. For starters, online firms such as Zoom, WhatApp, Instagram, Twitter, etc making a killing with digital communication apps. So too did companies like Tesla, who cashed in on reduced travel

FEDERAL Capital Territory minister Nyesom Wike is refusing to leave Nigeria's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) quietly after a faction loyal to him rejected his expulsion along with that of several other members at the party's convention on Saturday.

NIGERIAN students studying abroad under the federal government’s Bilateral Education Agreement (Bae) and their parents staged a protest in Abuja today over the non-payment of their scholarship stipends.

CONGRESSMEN in the US House of Representatives will hold an open hearing on Thursday November to examine President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).