The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has entered talks with the Heritage Times HT, a notable global media platform to advance the cause of grassroots sports development in the country. According to THISDAY, this was disclosed in a press release by Secretary-General of SWAN, Ikenna Okonkwo, following a meeting of the leadership of both…
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Ajaero: NLC, TUC, issue six-point demands to FG, threatens nationwide strikeTrade Union Congress (TUC), is to embark on a nationwide strike over the arrest and brutalisation of the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero. The strike, according to a statement on Friday, is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, November…
Treasure Ayuba, the last victim of the 121 students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna, who were abducted in 2021 has escaped from captivity after over two years. The 13 year old Ayuba returned home on Thursday at about 4pm to reunite with his parents. In a telephone interview on Friday, Joseph Hayab, chairman of…
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has condemned the arrest and brutality meted on Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Ajaero, alongside other members of the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the NLC in Owerri, the Imo state capital, on Wednesday to commence strike against the state government over alleged insensitivity to…
Former National chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Prof. Rufai Alkali and Senator Sulaiman Othman Hunkuyi, candidate of the NNPP in the March 18, 2023 governorship election in Kaduna state, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). They were received into the APC on Tuesday by the National chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje….
Controversial Indian Islamic preacher, Zakir Naik, Indian Islamic preacher banned in his country for alleged terrorism and money laundering arrived Nigeria on Monday on the invitation of sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar. The Islamic cleric has come under attack by many Nigerians for referring to some officers of Nigerian Air Force he met at…
