PROFILE : Engr Wada
…The man who beat his brother, brother in-law, Melaye, others to pick PDP guber ticket Musa Wada, the younger brother of rival Idris Wada, clinched the PDP governorship ticket in the primary election held in Lokoja on Wednesday, ahead of the 16th November election. Musa scored 748 votes, followed by Abubakar Idris with 710 votes, […]
P&ID $9b lawsuit …World’s Biggest Lawsuits Built on a Sham?
Is One of the World’s Biggest Lawsuits Built on a Sham? A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting. By Kit Chellel, Joe Light, and Ruth Olurounbi Gaslighting The oilfield fires of the Niger Delta burn day and night. Metal […]
WHY WE MUST STAGE A PROTEST AGAINST THE GRUESOME EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS OF FELLOW NIGERIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA
By M. S. DogaraWednesday 4th September, 2019. Good day my fellow brothers’ keepers and peace loving Nigerians, It’s very sad and unfortunate to draw our attention, and indeed that of the entire African continent and the world, on the unending extrajudicial and gruesome butchering of Nigerians living in South Africa. The gory pictures of some […]
Gunmen attack: Resort To Violence Cannot Save You- PDP Tells Yahaya Bello
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) issues a stern warning to Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the gun attack at its governorship primary election in Lokoja, Kogi state. The party says the resort to violence and bloodletting cannot save the failed governor and his party, the APC, as the PDP and […]
Hothouse Earth: here’s what the science actually does – and doesn’t – say
Richard Betts, University of Exeter A new scientific paper proposing a scenario of unstoppable climate change has gone viral, thanks to its evocative description of a “Hothouse Earth”. Much of the media coverage suggests that we face an imminent and unavoidable extreme climate catastrophe. But as a climate scientist who has carried out similar research myself, I am aware that […]
SECURITY UPDATE : Kaduna State Govt Bans Check Point
No Authorized Checkpoints Along Kaduna-Abuja, Kaduna-Zaria and Kaduna-BirninGwari Highways The Kaduna State Security Council has issued an advisory, notifying citizens that there are no authorised checkpoints along the Kaduna-Abuja, Kaduna-Zaria and Kaduna-Birnin Gwari highways. Citizens are to note that effective immediately, there is no authorized checkpoint on these routes (to and fro) until further notice. […]
Kogi PDP gov primaries: Gunshots disrupts election.
The governorship primary election ended abruptly in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen invaded the venue of the election, Lokoja Confluence Stadium. The incidence which occurred at about 1:30am sent delegates, aspirants and officials scampering for safety. According to report, votes in eight out of the 10 ballot boxes have already been counted and […]
Call for Entries: AMDF Journalist of the Year Award
BACKGROUND Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) invites applications from interested professional, or freelance journalists in Africa for its Journalist of the Year Award. CRITERIA Each piece of work submitted must be an untold story from Africa and focused on Africans The piece must reflect high quality journalism work, highlighting major issues in the story, as […]
Preserve, Protect Vulture for Environmental, Human Survival- NCF DG urges
By Ado Hassan, Sokoto The Director General Nigeria Conservation Foundation(NCF), Dr. Mukhtari Aminu Kano has called for the urgent need to preserve and protect the Egyptian Vulture species from extinction for environmental and human survival. He decried the fast declining population of Vultures in the west African coast which he attributed to the alarming socio-economic, […]
SENATE COMMITTEE: SANAN DESCRIBES UBA SANI’S APPOINTMENT AS CHAIRMAN ON BANKING/FINANCE AS WELL DESERVED
Shared Agent Network Association In Nigeria (SANAN) has described the appointment of Senator Uba Sani as the Chairman of the committee on Banking Finance and Financial Institutes in the Senate as not only a step in the right direction, but one that will benefit many people especially at this era of cashless policy. The group […]