United Nigeria Airlines chair urges FG, states to end unemployment with apprenticeship
The Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Dr. Obiora Okonkwo, has called on the federal and state governments to use the Igbo apprenticeship system to address the scourge of youth unemployment in the country. Okonkwo, who made the call in a keynote address he delivered at the 2022 edition of the All Market Conference, organised by the Ndigboamaka Progressive Traders Association...
UK recovers $23m Abacha loot after 7 years of litigation
Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), on Thursday, said it has recovered more than $23 million looted by Nigeria's late military dictator, Sani Abacha. Abacha ruled Africa's most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his death in 1998, a period during which he stole up to $5 billion of public money, according to Transparency International. The late military dictator...
Gunmen strike in Ebonyi day after Buhari’s arrival
Gunmen suspected to be enforcing a two-day ‘phantom’ sit-at-home allegedly declared by yet to be identified dissident group in South-East attacked Ebebe Junction in Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi. The attackers, who struck the area at about 6:20 a.m on Friday, set a vehicle ablaze while a motorcycle operator escaped death by whiskers. According to NAN, a resident of the area, Anayo Chukwuemeka,...
China building collapse death toll hits 53
Fifty-three people died in a building collapse in central China, authorities said Friday, announcing the end of the rescue mission in a disaster which has been blamed on illegal construction. The commercial building in Changsha city caved in last Friday, prompting over six days of painstaking attempts to pull survivors free from the mass of rubble and twisted metal. "The search and...
Russia-Ukraine war: Latest developments
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: -Mariupol factory ceasefire in doubt - The Russian military had announced a three-day ceasefire starting Thursday at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian forces are making a last stand. But a commander of the Azov regiment which is defending it says in a video on...
1.7m candidates registered as UTME begins nationwide
No fewer than 1.7 million candidates are set to take part in the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide scheduled to run from May 6 to May 16, 2022. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) stated that the examination would be conducted for 1,761,338 candidates that successfully registered for the examination in 755 registered computer based centres. The Head...
Again, PDP shifts NEC meeting to May 11
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again shifted its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting earlier rescheduled for May 10 to May 11, 2022. The party’s National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, made the announcement in a statement he issued on Thursday. Anyanwu stated that the earlier date clashed with the local governments delegates’ election involving all members of the party. READ ALSO: Court fixes...
NRC announces reconnection of bombed train line
The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has announced that the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service line that was bombed by terrorists on March 28, 2022, has been reconnected. The Managing Director of the Corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria, announced the development via a statement issued by Director Operations of the NRC, Mr Niyi Alli, on Thursday. Okhiria explained that the south end of the train...
2023: Nnamani, Amaechi pick N100m APC presidential forms
Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has obtained his Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms of the All Progressives Congress(APC) to contest the 2023 presidential election. Nnamani obtained the APC nomination forms in Abuja on Thursday. Speaking after obtaining the forms, the ex-Senate President said it will amount to injustice for APC to jettison zoning in the 2023 general election. He stated that...
Biden appoints first black woman White House Press Secretary
U.S. President Joe Biden, on Thursday, announced Karine Jean-Pierre as White House Press Secretary, making history as the first Black woman to hold the post. Jean-Pierre, 44-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants, will replace Jen Psaki, who was originally expected to serve for only the first year of Biden’s term. New COVID-19 variants and the war in Ukraine kept her in the...
