Day: May 8, 2022

ABUJA— Nigerian airlines are to suspend all flights from Monday over rising jet fuel prices, an umbrella organisation of operators said on Saturday. The cost of fuel has soared worldwide since Russia invaded its neighbour Ukraine in February and the W…

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has restated the seriousness with which the Buhari administration is confronting the security challenges in the country, noting the results and outcomes of the keen efforts of the Federal Government are certainly…

The Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called for more involvement of religious leaders in tackling security challenges facing the nation.Onaiyekan made this appeal at the Annual Lecture and Induction of Full Members by…

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Military for the incessant onslaught and for not showing any let up as they continue to achieve positive outcomes based on their current operational trajectory in the Northwest and particularly Zamfara State…

Alhaji Ahmed Wadada, a frontline Senatorial Aspirant for Nasarawa West Senatorial District, has admonished members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to embrace peace and unity in the interest of the party’s progress and development.Wadada gave the…

The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated with the families and associates of veteran broadcaster Mrs. Yemi Ademokoya who died on Saturday after a brief illness.“With total submission to the will of God, we mourn with the immed…

Ideas Nigeria Movement (INM) says calls by various persons and associations for Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to resign his position is baseless.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INM is a group of Nig…

The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take immediate steps to avert an imminent shutdown of flight operations in the country.In a statement signed by the Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, the Cauc…

INEC on Sunday in Abuja condemned calls from some unidentified quarters on the commission’s boss, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to join the 2023 presidential race.Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, described the calls as prepostero…

Nigeria’s U-20 men’s football team, the Flying Eagles, defeated the Black Satellites of Ghana 2-0 to in Group B of the West African Football Union (WAFU) tournament at the General Seyni Kountche Stadium in Niamey on Sunday.Nigeria went ahead in the 5th…