NIGERIAN-born member of Parliament for the Essex constituency of Saffron Walden Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch has been appointed as Britain's new minister for children and families by prime minister Boris Johnson.
(1) July 30 has always been a historic day in the history of humanity. In Nigeria too it is important for us an on this day in 1966, Lt Col Yakubu Cinwen Gowon became head of state after the country was without a helmsman for 24 hours
(2) On this day in 1975, some nine years later, Brigadier Murtala Ramat Mohammed also seized power, taking over from General Yakubu Gowon as head of state
NIGERIAN Bottling Company (NBC) officials are planning to introduce revolutionary new chewable bottles in which they will sell Coca Cola as part of a radical environmental programme aimed at reducing the amount of plastic in circulation.
NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) officials have given Air Peace the all clear after carrying out a technical audit of the airline's fleet of aircraft and ascertaining that its planes meet all the standard set for domestic carriers.
FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke's 149 pieces of jewellery valued at $40m recently seized by the federal government is to be auctioned off with the proceeded remitted to the federation account.
NIGERIA'S high commissioner to the United Kingdom Justice George Oguntade has pledged to use his office to facilitate the ongoing process of the diaspora helping to boost education and other socio-economic programmes back home through a series of community initiatives.
REPRSENTATIVES of several Middle Belt and southern socio-cultural groups have shunned a security summit called by former military head of state General Abdulsalam Abubakar because the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) was invited.
GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State paid a surprise visit to the state house of assembly to investigate claims that a snake fell into the chambers when lawmakers were sitting and got those present to confirm that the whole story was made up.
[1] We have been debating this Ruga matter for about a month now and there is a universal consensus that the plan was ill-thought out, irresponsible, divisive and economically illogical. Even the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association ofNigeria (Macban) has distanced itself from it, saying that as a body, it fails to see how any herdsman will benefit from the idea
WEST Ham's teenage goalkeeper Daniel Jinadu has agreed to switch his loyalty from England to Nigeria and commit his international to the Super Eagles despite having featured for English U15 and U16 teams.
NIGERIAN Bottling Company (NBC) officials are planning to introduce revolutionary new chewable bottles in which they will sell Coca Cola as part of a radical environmental programme aimed at reducing the amount of plastic in circulation.
NIGERIAN Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) officials have given Air Peace the all clear after carrying out a technical audit of the airline's fleet of aircraft and ascertaining that its planes meet all the standard set for domestic carriers.
FORMER petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke's 149 pieces of jewellery valued at $40m recently seized by the federal government is to be auctioned off with the proceeded remitted to the federation account.
NIGERIA'S high commissioner to the United Kingdom Justice George Oguntade has pledged to use his office to facilitate the ongoing process of the diaspora helping to boost education and other socio-economic programmes back home through a series of community initiatives.
REPRSENTATIVES of several Middle Belt and southern socio-cultural groups have shunned a security summit called by former military head of state General Abdulsalam Abubakar because the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) was invited.
GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State paid a surprise visit to the state house of assembly to investigate claims that a snake fell into the chambers when lawmakers were sitting and got those present to confirm that the whole story was made up.
WEST Ham's teenage goalkeeper Daniel Jinadu has agreed to switch his loyalty from England to Nigeria and commit his international to the Super Eagles despite having featured for English U15 and U16 teams.
