President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was sworn in on Wednesday for his sixth term as president. The home of his main opposition rival Bobi Wine, who decried the inauguration as a “sham” was surrounded by police during the ceremony. Museveni, who won re-election in January despite widespread reports of irregularities, took the oath of office at…
The College of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Kaduna is to fully take off by June or July. Ahmed Galadima Aminu, Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Development Technology Trust Fund (PTDF), disclosed this on Monday in Kaduna during a tour of facilities at the college by student union leaders, led by Sunday Asefon, Senior Special…
The Taraba State Commissioner for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, Habu Phillip, has condemned Monday’s attack on travellers along Wukari-Tsokundu roadTiv militia. Habu, who is the political leader of the Tiv in Taraba State, said the incident is reprehensible. According to him, those behind the attack are criminals and agents of destabilization who do not have…
A group of 60 members of the House of Representatives, known as the Parliamentary Group, have initiated a bill seeking to end the presidential system of government and revert to the former parliamentary system that operated in Nigeria’s First Republic. The group on Wednesday set the move in motion by presenting a bill on the…
Chairman/CEO Channels Incorporated, Dr.John Momoh, Chairman/Managing Director Chevron Nigeria Limited, Jim Swartz and Managing Director/Country Chair, Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, Osagie Okunbor have been nominated for awards by the Government College Ughelli at the school’s 80th Anniversary. Other awardees are Chairman, Brownhill Group, Amaju Melvin Pinnick; Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema; Miller…
Boderi Isyaku, a notorious bandit responsible for the kidnapping of 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation and the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna in 2021, have been neutralised, alongside some of his gang members. Samuel Aruwan,Overseeing Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna state, disclosed this in…
