Car horns in Quito blared in celebration Sunday as banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, became violence-riddled Ecuador’s youngest president-elect ever. With 90 per cent of votes counted, the electoral authority announced Noboa as the victor. Moments earlier, socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez conceded defeat and offered her “profound congratulations” to Noboa, “because this is democracy.”…
The new Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Aisha Rimi, has pledged to advance Nigeria’s economy through strategic investment promotion. Rimi made this pledge during her opening address after resuming at NIPC headquarters on Monday, in Abuja. In a major reshuffling last Friday, President Bola Tinubu approved the appointment of a…
A ProActive Northern Initiatives (PANI) has described the decision of Federal Government to suspend the N-Power programme as ill-timed, retrogressive, injurious and capable of worsening the fragile security situation in Northern Nigeria. This was even as they described the decision as hasty and anti-people. The group expressed that the programme has brought succour to millions…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has officially sworn in and inaugurated three new ministers, who will now assume their roles as Federal Executive Council (FEC) members. The newly sworn-in ministers are Ayodele Olawale, Abbas Lawal Balarabe, and Jamila Biu Ibrahim. Before today’s FEC meeting, President Tinubu presided over the inauguration ceremony to officially welcome and swear…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu a three-day ultimatum to either resume office at Government House, Akure or resign. The PDP members had earlier taken to the streets to voice their concerns over the governor’s absence in office before some security operatives stopped them. A detachment of Nigeria…
President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said Israel must eliminate the Hamas terror group but rejected reoccupying the Gaza Strip. Biden made this known in an interview with CBS on Sunday, stressing that reoccupying the Gaza Strip would be a “big mistake.” The US President made this known as Israeli troops prepared for…
…Rivers, Benue states top list with N119bn, N100bn…South-West , Niger Delta regions have N256 bn, N225 bn…What we’re doing to offset arrears — STATES By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Dayo Johnson, Victor AhiumaYoung, Sam Oyadongha, Demola Akinyemi, Olasunkami Akoni, Vincent Ujumadu, Egufe Yafugborhi, Peter Duru, Dennis Agbo, Steve Oko, Peter Okutu Marie-Therese Nanlong, Emmanuel…
Osun State Government has debunked claims in a sponsored fake news by the state’s All Progressive Congress (APC), clarifying that only Two Billion Naira was so far received from the Federal Government for subsidy palliatives while the Seven Billion Naira Federal refund to the state was specifically designated for infrastructure intervention. In a statement issued…
Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife, stated that Ile-Ife continues to be the hub and center that Yoruba both at home and abroad cannot disregard. Ooni disclosed this on Saturday, October 14, during the international conference on Ile-Ife and Yoruba civilization, with the theme: “The Nexus between Tradition and Modernity”. “Without real…
Osun State government is prepared to work with other South-West States to put together a rail project that will improve rail transportation in the region. Special Adviser to the Governor on transportation, Mr Moshood Yakubu – Adejare stated this on Imole Ayo, a sensitization programme which promotes the activities of governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration on…
