Thursday 14th April was the day that asylum seekers in the United Kingdom woke up to a new reality. Cut in this new reality includes both intending and some existing asylum seekers who are already on UK soil. It was a day the asylum system in the United Kingdom may ...

Nigeria and Mauritius have beaten Cameroun, Malawi to retained their seats to serve for another four years in the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) from 2023 to 2026. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the candidates from the two countries ...

As a way of reworking Nigeria before any meaningful election can be held, there is the need for a new constitution which is to be worked out under an interim national government. This interim government should last for a period of 6 months after President Muhammadu Buhari`s regime. Those were ...

In all his pretenses about one Nigeria, there is still one thing that the king of the North who today masquerades as the president of “one Nigeria”, President Muhammadu Buhari, has never pretended about – that is his hatred for the Igbos and the idea of a free Biafra. The ...

The date was 11th of April and the venue was the online microblogging platform - Twitter. On this day Prof Yemi Osinbajo, the Nigerian Vice President addressed his country in about 7 minutes pre-recorded video. He told them two things: He wants to be president. Meaning, he wants to succeed ...

In Nigeria politicians are known to begin the permutation for the next election even before the result of a current ballot exercise is declared. It is therefore an illusion for anyone to think that the 2023 Nigerian general election is still a far cry. It is rather as close as ...

Briefly, I am going to show you how you can still escape poverty and become very rich even though your current take home pay is very little and not enough to take you home. I am going to introduce you to five attitudes that will move you from the place ...

The Nigerian political climate is certainly smoggy. The sky is so cloudy that you cannot see with clarity what is up and round there. Yet 2023 is a pregnancy that we know the due date. Whether the delivery will be an election that will usher in a new government or ...

When in the 30th day of May, 1967, the General Odumegwu Ojukwu, of blessed memory, the Ezeigbo gburu gburu and the then leader of the Eastern Regional Government of Nigeria declared Biafra as an independent state from the rest of Nigeria, it was dubbed as a secessionist movement. There was ...

Crypto currency has become a topical issue globally and can no longer be ignored, irrespective of how you feel about it. It is a thing many countries are beginning to love and hate, reject and accept all at the same time, and the list of countries in this conundrum are ...

As the trial of Robert Kelly continued in its eight day in the city of Brooklyn in New York on Monday, an accuser testifying for the prosecution has told the court how the now disgraced singer raped her, a 17-year-old fan at the backstage of his concert, moments after a ...

The governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has been described as weapon of mass destruction for the people of Imo State and the entire Southern Region following his “recent stand on national issues” which does “not support the interest of his own people”, according to Barr Williams Ukonu, a ...

The trial of R. Kelly, the R&B star and multi Grammy award winner has commenced in Brooklyn, New York City, with a damming opening comments and characterization of R. kelly from the US federal prosecutor who have tried to sell the singer to the jury as a “predator” a sex ...

The house of the All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be falling apart, and may soon not be able to hold anymore. This is a reasonable the fallout from the Wednesday decision of the Supreme Court, irrespective of the fact that it was in favour of the party. Eyitayo Jegede ...

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire says 18. 2 million Nigerians were infected with viral hepatitis, as awareness, reporting, diagnosis and treatment of Hepatitis B and C remained low in the country. Ehanire said this while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja in commemoration of the 2021 World Hepatitis ...

After long battle with the Nigerian government under president Mohammadu Buhari, a court of competent jurisdiction has declared Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife innocent, discharged and acquitted. El-Zakzaky is the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). The IMN was proscribed by the Nigerian government and since then ...

In this year`s Bar final examination of the Nigerian Law School, about 75 per cent of the students were successful. Twenty persons passed with first class out of a total of 4, 350 successful candidates who participated in the March 2021 Bar Final Examination of the Nigeria Law School. The ...

At the 14th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (NAEE) in Abuja on Wednesday, the Secretary General of OPEC, Dr Mohammad Barkindo while presenting a keynote address made some disclosures relating to the effect of the covid-19 pandemic in the global oil & gas industry. Speaking for ...

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu`s lawyer, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor has alleged that the British government may have connived with Nigeria and Kenya in Nnamdi kanu`s “abduction” in Nairobi and the extra ordinary rendition to Nigeria that followed the abduction. Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a ...

While addressing a group of Nigerians in the US, Amb. Gabriel Aduda, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke on the plan of the Nigerian mission in the US to expand passport offices in other clear the backlog of passport applications. Particularly, he made reference to immediate plan ...

In a rare relief, the High Commission in London has now commenced delivering of finished international passports to Nigerians within the UK. This was confirmed by a Palydom reporter on Monday at the High Commission. Palydom can confidently report that applicants for the Nigerian international passport were required to complete ...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday swore-in the 57 newly elected Local Government and Local Government Development Council chairmen and vice chairmen in the state. Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony at Lagos House, Ikeja, Sanwo-Olu urged the new council executives to always put the residents first in ...

If you think you were the only one confused about three words - Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and Covid-19, may be you were wrong. Our check revealed many people had same confusion. In fact, many people used them interchangeably in error. That`s exactly why we set out to help you get things ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is now in London, the United Kingdom (UK), where he will participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s aircraft arrived at the Stansted International Airport, London at about ...

Jeff Bezos is today a household name globally. He is known in the world of business and technology. Bezos is a man known for big things and big projects. He has yet shown another side to his personality. After his historic space flight, Jeff Bezos have gifted $100 Million to ...

In an event organized in Abuja on Sunday by the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Amb. Zubairu Dada, the Minister for State for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Federal Government was willing to create an enabling environment that would encourage direct investment by the diaspora. Dada added that Nigerians ...

The Director-General (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was a guest at a webinar to celebrate the National Diaspora Day on Sunday. She spoke on the need for Nigerians both at home and abroad to continue to make positive contributions through investments in Nigeria in other ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the N982.7 billion supplementary budget for 2021 into law. The Presidency presented the budget to the National Assembly to address urgent security and COVID-19 needs of the nation. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, who confirmed this in ...

DEVELOPING STRORY: Today`s slated trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) failed to go on as planned. Reason is because the government’s elite security outfit, the Department of State Security Services (DSS) who has Nnadi Kanu in their custody failed to produce ...

DEVELOPING NEWS: The UK Homes office has commenced long planned deportations of migrants from various countries back to their countries. The first flight took off last Wednesday carrying asylum seekers from Zimbabwe. The deportation flight to Zimbabwe is just the very first in more of such long-haul flights for mass ...