By PROF LEONARD KARSHIMA SHILGBA – Today, I join millions of Benue people and well-wishers across Nigeria and beyond in celebrating the 60th birthday of His Excellency, Hyacinth Alia — priest, leader, reformer, and Governor of Benue State. Life’s journey is often mysterious in its unfolding. For decades, Fr....
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Barrister Princess Nwamaka Mediatrix Chigbo was a woman of substance – the founder of Trixtresse Associates Chambers, her law firm, a notary public, the former treasurer of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja Branch, and also the former Vice President of the Catholic Lawyers Association of Nigeria. Nwamaka, the...
Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has formally presented its proposed 2025 budget of N1.74 trillion to the House of Representatives, seeking legislative consideration and approval. The Managing Director of the commission, Mr. Samuel Ogbuku, submitted the budget to the House Committee on NDDC during a session in Abuja, describing...
The Faith and Freedom Africa (FFA) has called on Nigerian Government to respect and protect every citizen’s right to freedom of religion as enshrined in Section 38 of the Nigerian Constitution. Speaking at a one-day colloquium held during a weekend at Blue Nile Suites, Jalingo, FFA Country Coordinator, Felix...
University of Jos (UNIJOS) has reaffirmed its resolve to bridge the gap between academic research and grassroots transformation as it hosted a two-day capacity-building workshop for artisanal and small-scale miners in Plateau State. Organised in collaboration with the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) under its Professorial Chair in Geology...
Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has vowed to complete all projects during his administration, ensuring no project is left unfinished. Governor Sani made this known during groundbreaking of township roads at Rigasa ward in Igabi local government of Kaduna State on Friday. Speaking extempore in Hausa, the Governor said...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently questioning the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, regarding financial dealings during his tenure. Kyari arrived at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja around 2:15 PM on Wednesday, according to Channels TV report. As...
Muhammadu Buhari was the rarest of individuals to grace political life anywhere in the world: an incorruptible servant of the people. He was not motivated by pride, or by riches – the accumulation of which repelled him. He was drawn to public service, discipline, and patriotism, and the unity...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR , Maiduguri – Movement for the Creation of AMANA State out of present Adamawa State has petitioned the Senate Committee Public Hearing on Constitutional Amendment, calling on the National Assembly to create a new state. The group claimed that there is a breach of trust on...
Argentina’s football association postponed all fixtures on Monday to mourn Pope Francis, an ardent fan of the game and supporter of Buenos Aires’ San Lorenzo team. “Argentine football says goodbye to you wrapped in deep sorrow,” the Argentine Football Association said of the decision to delay games in his...
“Pope Francis stood with the weak and the poor. He called attention to the threats posed by the environmental exploitation of mother earth.“ He entered the world with the candescence a meteor, blazing new trails and igniting enough light to show that he wanted any lingering swamps and dark...
Bh EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The 2033 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi has mourned the death of His Holiness, Pope Francis, describing him as a “moral compass in a troubled world”. The pope, who is the head of the Catholic Church passed away on Monday,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has extended his heartfelt felicitation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on the occasion of his 73rd birthday. Governor Ododo in statement signed by his special adviser on media, Ismaila Isah described President Tinubu as a statesman whose...
This was first published on March 12, 2018, nine days after her death. It is repeated wholly with only a headline change as a posthumous birthday seven years after. Lami Fatima Babare, my beloved wife, my friend, the mother of my children. Today marks one week of your painful...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the late Afenifere stalwart, Ayo Adebanjo, as a great man, a committed nationalist, and an unpretentious personality. The elder statesman passed away on Friday in his home, Lekki, Lagos State, at the age of 96. In a tribute signed by his Special Assistant...
A mother and her two children escaped death on Monday when a vehicle rammed into their living room in Dutse. The Police Public Relations Officer, Jigawa State Command , DSP Lawan Shiisu, said in a statement in Dutse that the incident occurred at about 12 midnight. Shiisu said the...
A Reminiscence by IYORWUESE HAGHER OON. Wanteregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo, Nigeria’s Stormy Petrel, is no more. For more than sixty years, Unongo dominated the Nigerian political stage. He was a groundbreaking catalyst for social progress, a public intellectual, a revolutionary thinker, a ferocious fighter for social justice, a cultural...
Beginning from Tuesday November 26 – final internment on the November 30th, 2024 in his hometown, Unongo village near Jato Aka, Kwande local government of Benue state, I met Wantaregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo for the first time in the early 1960s at the annual convention of the Community...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Legendary music promoter and Chairman of Evergreen Musical Company, Chief Femi Esho, passes away at 77. Chief Esho died on Monday in Lagos after a brief illness, according to a statement issued by his daughter, Bimbo Esho. She said: “We announced the passing...
Veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko, on Tuesday mourned Elizabeth Evoeme, popularly known as Ovularia in the 1980s TV sitcom, ‘The New Masquerade’, who died at the age of 81. Kosoko, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, described the late actress as a...