Former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has said the history of Africa, the continent’s heritage and culture will be major spotlights at the FESTAC Africa Festival, which will be held in the city of Kisumu in Kenya. From May 20 to 26, 2024, the city will play host to a prestigious gathering of esteemed personalities…
The Kebbi Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted about 6,240 pieces of cap-sensitive dynamite explosives along the Yauri/Jega Road. The Area Comptroller of Customs, Iheanacho Ojike, said the dynamites were intercepted by the joint border patrol team of Customs, Army, Police, Immigration and the Department of State Services while on intelligence-based patrol…
Jovilius Heart Foundation reaffirms its commitment to windows and indigents for its next outreach. This was coming on the heels of the 5-year-old celebration of the founder’s son on Thursday. Speaking on behalf of the celebrant, the father, Julius Olaoluwa, said the foundation was birthed to laud the young boy with a heart as big…
Former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has said the history of Africa, the continent’s heritage and culture will be major spotlights at the FESTAC Africa Festival, which will be held in the city of Kisumu in Kenya. From May 20 to 26, 2024, the city will play host to a prestigious gathering of esteemed personalities…
In a desperate move to inculcate in public primary school pupils the passion for agriculture and stem the alarming inflation of food prices, the Akwa Ibom State government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has commenced the distribution of agricultural inputs to public primary schools across the three senatorial districts in the state….
Delta State Ministry of Health has begun refunding money extorted from students in authorized study fees in the state’s Colleges of Nursing Asaba and Sapele. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Joseph Onojaeme, who monitored the refund exercise on Wednesday at the state College of Nursing, Asaba, disclosed that the extortion involved the schools’ Department…
A Benin-based group, God and People Prayer Parliament has advocated for the restructuring of Nigeria into eight regional parliamentary systems of government. National Chairman of the group, Dr Dele Oluwatade, while presenting the group’s proposal in Benin City, explained that in the proposed arrangement, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would transmute to a Prime Minister as…
Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has come up with new high-yielding agricultural methodologies in fisheries and cassava production, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Samuel Ugbolue, has disclosed. The eight-year-old university has, in addition, concluded a breakthrough research into environmental and industrial chemistry, aimed at effectively dealing with environmental issues…
A university don, Dr Innocent Kasarchi, has commended the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress deputy governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Joshua Maciver, for his humility and zeal to learn as a Masters’ student at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Port Harcourt. Dr Kasarchi made the commendation in an exclusive interview with South-South…
The Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan, has congratulated the Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on his victory in the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress. The PUNCH reports that Aiyedatiwa won the shadow election after polling 48,569 votes to defeat 15 contestants in…
The Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners in the South-West zone has voiced its growing concerns about the deteriorating state of roads and escalating insecurity, appealing to governors and the Federal Controller of Works for immediate intervention. The association also lamented multiple taxations by government agencies. During the inauguration of newly elected members, the NARTO…
In a desperate move to inculcate in public primary school pupils the passion for agriculture and stem the alarming inflation of food prices, the Akwa Ibom State government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has commenced the distribution of agricultural inputs to public primary schools across the three senatorial districts in the state….