President Bola Tinubu has poured encomiums on Nobel Laureate and elder statesman, Wole Soyinka, a professor, on his 89th birthday, describing him as a veritable source of support, inspiration and encouragement. The president, who called Mr Soyinka a brother and comrade in the struggle for the restoration and entrenchment of democracy and good governance in…
President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to permit his administration to go ahead with the processing of a $800m loan facility from the World Bank requested by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari to finance the National Safety Net Programme. The president’s request was in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill…
By Ayomide Otitoju Nigeria’s innovative and youth-friendly telecommunications company, 9mobile, is to enter a strategic partnership with the prestigious Bayero University, Kano (BUK), as the University prepares to establish theNCC’s center of excellence in telecommunication Research and Development.This partnership will cover capacity building, modernized educational delivery, and optimized technology delivery to students.Through this collaboration,the University…
Awori indigenes of Ojo Kingdom have cautioned indigenes of Iba to stop laying claim to the ownership of the land on which the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo campus is sited.They asserted that the large expanse of land belongs to their forefathers and has not been ceded to any other kingdom or individuals.The assertion was…
Most NATO members stand together with Ukraine and the alliance’s upcoming Lithuania summit must confirm Kyiv is a de facto member, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. He also indicated on Monday that further pledges of arms supplies for Ukraine in its war with Russia will be forthcoming at the Vilnius gathering.“The majority of the alliance stands…
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, returned to Abuja after a two-day trip to Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in Bissau.At the summit, which is the President’s first meeting with the sub-regional authority, Tinubu emerged as…
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has asked President Bola Tinubu to refrain from sending the wrong signal, saying there have been several high-profile politicians with looting cases in court who have been visiting the Presidential Villa.“Some of those who are going in and out of the Villa are standing trial for looting the treasury…
The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has said that Nigerians witnessed the worst phase of corruption under the last administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari.He said this while delivering a keynote speech at the 60th call to bar anniversary celebration of legal icon, Aare Afe Babalola, in Ado Ekiti, the…
Legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, on Monday, said sitting judges should not preside over election petitions tribunals.The nonagenarian Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said judges who preside over election tribunals should be separate from regular court judges to avoid the halt of cases unrelated to elections. He…
