The Nigeria U-20 women ‘s team, the Falconets, will facd the Netherlands in the quarter-final phase of the ongoing FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup taking place in Costa Rica. The Falconets early Thursday morning rounded off their group stage campaign in style; beating Canada 3-1 at the Estadio Alajuela Morera Soto. Coach Chris Danjuma’s ladies … [Read more…]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday promised that the results of the 2023 general elections would be transmitted electronically. There have been calls by stakeholders that the deployment of technology in the country’s electoral processes be enhanced to address hitches witnessed in previous elections. It was against … [Read more…]
Striking electricity workers have promised to back down and restore power to the nation after they held a meeting with the federal government on Wednesday. The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) had earlier directed its members to go on strike and shutdown electricity, due to neglect of staff welfare and failure of Transmission Company … [Read more…]
To dampen the attack on legendary Nigerian saxophonist and afrobeat singer, Femi Kuti, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi has initiated a meeting with Kuti. Recall that Kuti had come under fire for allegedly referring to Obi’s supporters – Obi-dients – as zombies, according to news making the rounds on social media. … [Read more…]
Striking workers of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, Wednesday shutdown the electricity national grid causing blackouts across the country. The strike by the workers under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, was triggered by the directive of the TCN Board that all Principal Managers who are in acting capacity must … [Read more…]
The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived in the residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Tinubu, in company with his team, is meeting Obasanjo as part of his ongoing consultation and fence-mending process to actualise his presidential bid. His chopper landed at 1pm … [Read more…]
The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has revealed that the launch of volunteer guards across the state was meant to protect lives ad properties due to incessant clashes between farmers and herders. Ortom made this assertion on Tuesday while fielding questions from journalists in Makurdi, even as he again called on residents of the state … [Read more…]
Three months after leading his associates to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) with great fanfare in Kano, a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shekarau, appears set to dump his new party. On Tuesday, Mr Shekarau’s spokesperson, Yau Sule, said the former governor who is the … [Read more…]
Councillors in the 260 electoral wards in Enugu State have assured Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State that they will work round the clock and mobilise massively in their respective wards to deliver the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidates in the 2023 general election. The 260 councillors, who gave the assurance when they … [Read more…]
There is no respite yet for airline operators in Nigeria over the skyrocketing price of aviation fuel otherwise known as Jet A1 as the price hit N903 per litre yesterday, from N880 on Monday, Daily Trust can report. The development has put pressure on airline tickets with passengers paying as much as N200,000 for a … [Read more…]
Nigeria’s power generation dropped by 502.7 megawatts on Tuesday as members of the National Union of Electricity Employees and their counterparts in the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies grounded the nationwide operations of the Transmission Company of Nigeria the same day. It was observed that power generation on the national grid recorded … [Read more…]
Troublesome Truth Too By M.O. Ene On 2.2.22, Pacesetter published “Enugu 2023: A Troublesome Truth.” This is not Part 2, though the main character is the same: Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, the first Fourth Republic governor of Enugu State. Politics is an art. Politicians of partisan hues are often so passionate about political hanky-panky they make … [Read more…]