The Board of African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 10-million dollar loan for African Local Currency Bond Fund (ALCBF) to boost its portfolio in Africa. Mrs Olivia Ndong-Obiang, the Principal Communications Officer in AfDB, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. She said that the ALCBF was also approved by the Bank
Senate President Bukola Saraki says he is convinced of his innocence in respect of the pending three-count charge before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). In December, the court of appeal had ordered the senate president to open his defence on the charges after the federal government appealed his acquittal by the CCT. The CCT
THE Nigeria Movement for Positive Change (NMPC) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to retire from politics come 2019 and not bother to seek re-election. This advice wa stated in a press statement titled “President Buhari, It’s time to go”, signed and released by the National President, Nigeria Movement for Positive Change (NMPC), Barrister Niyi Aborisade,
Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the call made by former Nigerian leaders, namely Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida not to contest the 2019 Presidential Election. Former Head of State, Babangida, only on Sunday told Buhari to forget his presidential ambition in 2019, while a few
Less than two weeks after ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo advised President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019, former military President Ibrahim Babangida has made known his own position. In a statement on Sunday, Babangida asked Nigerians to co-operate with Buhari until his tenure ends in 2019. According to him, Nigeria needs a new breed of
TOWARDS A NATIONAL REBIRTH In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many concerned Nigerians who have continued to express legitimate and patriotic worry about the state of affairs in the country. Some of them have continued to agonize about the turn of events and expressly worried why we have not
Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has asked Nigerians to co-operate with President Muhammadu Buhari until his tenure ends — but vote for a new generation of leaders in 2019. In a press statement released on Sunday by Kassim Afegbua, his spokesman, Babangida said it was time to sacrifice “personal ambition” for the “national interest”. His
A Parish Priest in charge of St Sylvester Catholic Church, New Nyanya and Karu in Nasarawa state, Rev. Fr. Lawrence Soja-Anyembugu, has sponsored the marriage of 53 couples in the state. Soja-Anyembugu, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Karu on Sunday after the holy matrimony of the couples in his church.
The National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has called on Yobe State House of Assembly to make legislation that would check the rising cases of Youths consuming Lizard dung, Zakami seeds, and petrol to get intoxicated. The Commander of the Agency in Yobe, Mr Apeh Reuben, made this appeal during a chart with Daily
The Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Rogers Nicholas, has revealed that the Nigerian Army has completely defeated the Boko Haram insurgents. Mr. Nicholas stated this during the inauguration of the Nigeria-Cameroun Military Joint Mission in Maiduguri. He disclosed that his troops under the operation DEEP PUNCH II, on Friday, dislodged and occupied the