The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, says the federal government will obtain $1 billion from foreign banks to purchase farming equipment for local farmers in the country. Mr Nanono disclosed this at the inauguration of the committee on the Green Imperative Programme on Friday in Abuja. The banks are Deutsche Bank (DB),…
A venue to be used by National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for a political rally in Auchi, Estako West local government area has been set ablaze by suspected thugs. The rally was to receive some defectors into the APC. Two cars, over 1000 chairs, canopies, and the stage were burnt….
The Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace has demanded the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of killings in the country. It said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has run out of excuses, adding that no further explanation was tenable for the ongoing bloodshed in the country. This was contained in the communiqué at the…
The popular Amu Plank Market in Mushin, Lagos, was razed by a midnight fire Saturday destroying properties worth millions of Nigeria. There were no casualties as residents and traders battled without success to put out the fire. Witnesses told our correspondent that officials of the Lagos State Fire and Safety Agency arrived the scene about…
A househelp identified as Uche Soroibe from Ideato in Imo State has been nabbed on his third attempt of poisoning his boss and his family members with an insecticide ‘Sniper’. The boy who was paraded alongside the insecticide he tried killing the family with, initially claimed he wanted to commit suicide with it. Upon being…
A Nigerian writer has taken to his twitter page to share his thoughts on Nigerian in diaspora who always tell their fellow Nigerians to quit the idea of coming to be with them ‘in the abroad’. The man described those set of people as ‘evil’. His tweet reads ; You are evil if you are…
A man, nicknamed Tallest, has been arrested after slapping someone to death in AnambraState. The incident happened during a disagreement, last night, at a club on Abakeleke street, #Awka. . At the height of the fracas, the suspect was said to have landed a slap on his opponent, sending him into another realm, from where…
Nollywood Actor, Adebayo Salami’s joy of witnessing his daughter’s post graduate convocation in the UK spilled over on Instagram as he took to the social media platform to share his excitement. Salami who congratulated his daughter, Tobi over her recent achievement, said the “best legacy every parent can give their children is proper education at…
Boxing promoter, Eddie Hearn, has confirmed Kubrat Pulev is the ‘front-runner’ to face the unified world boxing heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, in the coming weeks. Pulev is the mandatory challenger to face Joshua, who holds the IBF world heavyweight title belt in addition to the WBA, WBO and IBO belts. Hearn said talks are in…
Senior United Nations officials and other stakeholders on Friday in New York raised concerns about the “alarming crisis’’ in the educational sector with a call on governments to act fast. Speaking at a high-level interactive dialogue on education at the UN headquarters, they noted that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could not be achieved without…