From Douglas Benebiri South South Bureau Chief The President of the Nigeria Environmental Society, Professor Lawrence Ezemonye has called on Nigerians to pay special attention to environmental degradation because of the number of pollution-induced human risk and deaths. Speaking with newsmen in his office at the University of Benin, in the Edo state capital, Professor…
Thursday denied reports speculating an imminent petrol scarcity over Federal Government’s inability to pay fuel marketers’ N660 billion debt. In a statement released in Abuja by the PPPRA spokesman, Mr Lanre Oladele, the agency said the report was misleading and “a gross misrepresentation of facts”. ”There were reports that fuel queues may soon return…
A full system collapse occurred yesterday evening at 6.00 pm when the country power generation recorded zero MW power supply which resulted in total blackout, with average power generation crashing to 1, 618 megawatts hour (MWH), down from 2, 904 MWh generated just before the system collapsed dropping generation to zero megawatts. This has been…
Adama Barrow has taken the oath of office as Gambia’s new president. He was sworn-in about 5pm Senegalese time at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, Senegal.A Photograph on his Twitter handle shows him taking the the oath of office. \He succeeds Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, who lost in the 1 December presidential election and has refused to…
Tension in US as man threatens to kill Donald Trump ahead of inauguration Someone who threatened to kill American President elect Donald Trump has been arrested. Dominic Puopolo, 51, is being held without bail in Miami on charges of threatening harm against a public servant. The 51-year-old man was arrested by Miami Beach police Tuesday…
The Senegalese troops have reportedly entered The Gambia in protection of the just sworn-in Adama Barrow as the president of the country, the BBC has reported. This is as the defeated Yahya Jammeh, who until January 19 was the president, has refused to quit. The African Union and the ECOWAS have mobilised to force Jammeh…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the Senate seeking a ten day leave between Monday, January 23 to Monday, February 6 2017. The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, January 19, read a letter from the president during the plenary session where Buhari said the vacation would be a working leave. According to…
Robbie gramer with Agency Report While the world braces for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday, another inauguration in West Africa has regional leaders worried: Gambia’s. West African countries are reportedly preparing for a military intervention in Gambia if President Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down on Thursday, the day that his successor Adama Barrow…
By Erasmus Ikhide Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of the temperate State of Gombe has demonstrated the immeasurable role of education in the political and economic life of a people or nation. His three points agenda: education, education and education signposted his world view in modern governments as the precursor of positive governance. The governor’s inclusive…
By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a high-powered Federal Government delegation to condole with the government and people of Borno state over Tuesday’s accidental bombing of the Internally Displaced Persons camp, in Rann. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, made this known on his twitter handle…
