Buni condemns reports on APC CECPC chairmanship tussle
The governor of Yobe State and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni, has berated the reports suggesting a “victor and vanquished” positions from the recent crisis in the APC CECPC. Buni said the reports were published to ignite an unsolicited crisis just a few days to the APC National Convention. The APC...
VIDEO: Fire guts Apongbon market, bridge in Lagos
Some shops at the Apongbon Under Bridge Market in Lagos have been gutted by fire. It was gathered that the fire outbreak occurred in the early hours of Wednesday. It was further learnt that some vehicles parked under the bridge were also gutted by the fire which has enveloped a large section of the bridge. The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service...
Who is afraid of Abdulrahman Musa Bashir?
By KAYODE OYELADE The common cliché of “give dog a bad name to hang it,” aptly describes the hatchet job done by some faceless forces represented by one Daniel Ikechukwu Maduabuchi to drag the name of Abdul Rahman Musa Bashir, a quintessential businessman and philanthropist into the mud. There should ordinarily be no need to glorify Maduabuchi and his paymasters with...
Kogi govt seals Globacom, Airtel’s facilities over N360m tax
The network facilities of Globacom Nigeria Ltd., and Airtel Networks Ltd. in Kogi State have been sealed by the state government for defaulting in remitting over N360 million tax liabilities. Globacom and Airtel are the two telecommunication companies operating in Kogi. Director of Legal Services and Enforcement, Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS), Mr. Saidu Okino, who led a team of...
2023: S’West PDP backs S’South, insists on Southern Presidency
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South-West Zone, has insisted that Nigeria’s next president should emerge from the Southern part of the country. Already, the South-South zone of the opposition party had on Monday resolved that the PDP candidate for the 2023 presidential election should come from the South. The party, at an extended zonal caucus meeting held at the Oyo State...
Search at China plane crash site suspended
The search for clues into why a Chinese commercial jetliner dove suddenly and crashed into a mountain in southern China was suspended Wednesday as rain slickened the debris field and filled the red-dirt gash formed by the plane’s fiery impact. Earlier, searchers had used hand tools, drones and sniffer dogs under rainy conditions to comb the heavily forested slopes for...
Biden heads to Europe, seeks more sanctions for Russia
President Joe Biden departs for Brussels on Wednesday for talks with European leaders about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, carrying with him plans for more sanctions on Moscow that sources said include members of the Russian parliament. Biden leaves the White House at 8:40 a.m. EDT on a trip that will include talks in Brussels with NATO and European leaders and...
Russia-Ukraine war ‘unwinnable’ ― UN
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that it was time for Russia to end their "absurd war" in Ukraine, declaring the conflict "unwinnable." Guterres told reporters at the world body's headquarters in New York on Tuesday that the war "is going nowhere, fast". "For more than two weeks, Mariupol has been encircled by the Russian army and relentlessly bombed, shelled and...
Ukraine: Russia’ll use nuclear weapons if… ― Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman has conceded that Russia has yet to achieve any of its military goals in Ukraine and refused to deny that Moscow could resort to the use of nuclear weapons. In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Dmitry Peskov repeatedly refused to rule out that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons against what Moscow saw...
Buhari to Minister: Look for special funding for Abuja airport project
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, to look for special funding for the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Speaking at the inauguration of the new Terminal Building, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, the President also directed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to conclude...
