Special Adviser on Public Health Dr Akindele Resume office, Assures of Revamping the Health sector in line with the Five Points Agenda of Governor Ademola Adeleke The Special Adviser to Osun State Governor on Public Health, Dr. Akindele Adekunle has officially resume office today with a promise to carry out revamping of the health sector…
Somalia’s Olympic committee has suspended the head of athletics for “shaming” the country after a video showing a clearly amateur runner coming last in an international race went viral. Sports Minister Mohamed Barre Mohamud said Wednesday that a woman who competed for Somalia in the 100 metres at the ongoing Summer World University Games in…
All 16 teams that will proceed to the next round of the ongoing FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia are now confirmed following the conclusion of the group stage fixtures on Thursday. Debutants Morocco became the last team to book their spot after a 1-0 win over Colombia, with former champions Germany…
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has supported the position to restore democratic rule in Niger Republic but called on the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government to tow the path of dialogue and diplomacy and not force, in resolving the current impasse in Niger. The ACF said doing so would be in the…
Thousands of people rallied on Thursday in Niger’s capital in support of the coup that toppled the democratically elected government, as security concerns mounted among Western nations. Protesters hold a Niger flag during a demonstration on independence day in Niamey. Hundreds of people backing the coup in Niger gathered on for a mass rally in…
Consumers in the country paid N247.09 billion for electricity in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 1.14 percent compared to N243.65 billion paid in the fourth quarter of 2022, as the latest report from the Nigerian Electricity Commission, NERC, has shown. In its 2023 first quarter report released yesterday, the Commission explained that…
The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, has suspended with immediate effect airport car hire services at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja. The suspension came following unresolved factional dispute amongst the car hire operators which has been affecting airport car hire service operations According to FAAN, Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Abdullahi Yakubu-Funtua,…
…says the Ijesa-born politician is a man of integrity. The Honorable Commissioner for Osun State Culture and Tourism Hon. Abiodun OJO (FAFA) has congratulated Osun State PDP chairman Hon. Sunday Bisi on his birthday celebration. Hon. Abiodun in his congratulatory statement made available to his media aid eulogize the Ijesa-born veteran politician saying, Hon. Bisi…
The National Executive Committee NEC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has confirmed the appointment of the immediate-past Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of the party. NEC took the decision at its 12th meeting held Thursday in Abuja. It also appointed Senator Basiru Ajibola as National Secretary. Earlier, Vanguard…
Dele Alake, one of President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial nominees, has said that if he is made the Minister of information and Culture, he will support the strengthening of social media regulations in Nigeria. Alake, who hails from Ekiti State in the South West region and served as the Commissioner of Information and Strategy in Lagos…
