Nigeria, UAE Relationship Strengthens, As Minister Assures Increase In Oil Production. The diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and United Arab Emirates, UAE, received a boost when the Ambassador of UAE H.E. Salem Saeed Al Shamsi paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of State For Petroleum Resources (Oil) Heineken Lokpobiri. The Minister who received the Ambassador…
Mohammed Mokhber appointed Acting President of Iran Vice President of Iran, Mohammad Mokhber, was on Monday and appointed as Acting President of the Islamic Republic following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi died in a helicopter crash that occurred in the country’s northwest on Sunday. A few hours after the death was officially confirmed,…
Labour Unions In NiMet Suspend Planned Strike Action After Reps’ Committee Intervention Labour Unions in the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) have suspended the planned strike action scheduled to begin on Monday, 20th May, 2024. This followed an agreement and resolution reached on Sunday, 19th May, 2024, during a special session convened by the House Committee…
Change must begin with the leader, This writing was first published on 6 July 2020, then May 16, 2023. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels, I see it as relevant. The first part in particular. However, do we forget the lessons in the second part? The world is changed by…
President Biden’s Commencement Speech at Morehouse College this week in Atlanta Georgia, the New York of the South. I am glad the President is not deterred at all and has gladly accepted the invitation despite the lies and propaganda being spread around by Trump and his MAGA Crowd and his Insurrectionists who are using Russian…
ASUU’s Warning: University System Craves for Tinubu’s Listening Ears What is the cost of time to have an audience with the nation’s president? A story was told of a wealthy business tycoon who had one thousand US dollars fall from his hand; he would instead leave the money as his effort and time to pick…
Traditional Title Holders Urged to Impart their Communities in the Area of Health Care …as Onilaje of Ilaje organises free medical outreach. Traditional title holders who benefited from the free medical outreach organised by the Onilaje of Ilaje, Chief Afolabi Makanjuola for the people of Ijesa land, want colleagues to replicate the gesture in…
Boro Day : Diri, Ijaw leaders celebrate Late Boro, lay wreath Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, leadership of Ijaw National Congress, INC, the apex Youth Group, Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, and other stakeholders, on Thursday, celebrated the 56th remembrance day of the late Major jasper Adaka Boro. Hundreds of different Youths groups had in…
Hajj 2024: Be good Ambassadors, Governor Adeleke charges Pilgrims. Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has bade a farewell to the intending pilgrims from the state to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Speaking during the farewell programme which took place at Osun State Government Secretariat Central Mosque, Governor Adeleke urged the intending pilgrims to fervently…
Dollar-Centric: The Trouble with Nigeria As the war within Africa against colonialism moved towards neocolonialism, Blackman Eurocentric imitation of the white is still a matter of concern among Nigerians, particularly as we see as inferior, anything without foreign touch. It has got so bad that names are now fashioned in foreign manner such as Honiphade…
