25 years old Joy Ashionye Ugboh the young lady representing Kwale at the Delta Queen pageantry has emerged as the 5th Deltan Queen after beating 33 others as the finalists. She is to officially represent Nigeria at the 2023 Miss United Continent Pageant in Ecuador. The crown queen hails from Ulogwe-Isumpe in Ndowka […]
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked licenses of the African Independent Television (AIT), Silverbird Television (STV), and 50 other broadcast stations. Addressing the press in Abuja on Friday, Director General of the Commission, Malam Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, said the 52 affected stations had been owing since 2015. He said the stations were […]
Railway staff in Britain on Thursday staged the latest in a series of strikes, once again disrupting commuters and leisure travellers, as decades-high inflation hits salaries and prompts walkouts across various industries. The latest action by rail workers, which will be repeated on Saturday, is part of a summer of strike action by […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday said it would not call off its strike until the salary arrears of its members were paid. The university lecturers also said they would not teach students to make up for the six months they had been on strike if the Federal Government failed to […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, disclosed what transpired during the meeting between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu. Mr Gbajabiamila stated that the former President, at the meeting, assured Tinubu of victory in 2023. Though details of the closed-door meeting […]
The Federal Government has asked students to take the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to take legal action for compensation for the time lost since the varsity teachers began their latest round of strike. Education Minister Adamu Adamu said this on Thursday while fielding questions from reporters at the 47th Session of […]
France on Thursday denied accusations by Mali’s foreign minister that the French army has provided support to Islamist groups and violated Malian airspace. Mali’s relations with Paris have been deteriorating since a junta took power in an August 2020 coup, eventually culminating in the withdrawal of French troops that was completed on Monday after […]
The absence of the governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and some key members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) in Yola has reflected how the crisis rocking the party is weakening the presidential movement of the presidential candidate of the party in 2023, Atiku Abubakar. The PDP […]
The Nigerian electricity workers have suspended their nationwide strike, which led to a total blackout in different parts of the country. The electricity workers under the joint umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEC) agreed to suspend the industrial action, following […]
Emirates Airlines has announced the suspension of its flights from Nigeria with effect from September 1, 2022. The airline’s decision was due to the inability to repatriate its funds from Nigeria. Recall that the airline had in a leaked letter to the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said it would reduce its […]
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