The United States Secretary of State, John Kerry has congratulated Nigeria on its 56th Independence Anniversary which comes up today, October 1.Kerry expressed confidence that Nigerians are working hard to address current national challenges. He sent the message on behalf of President Barack Obama and the American people. Below is the full text of Kerry’s […]
Continue ReadingFan Xing, a Chemical Engineering Professor at Chongqing University, said on Friday that Chinese, U.S. scientists are inventing power-generating fabric.The scientist said that with sufficient sunlight and constant motion, a 5-cm long and 4-cm wide fabric can generate and maintain electricity with a voltage of 5V, enough to charge a cellphone. Xing explained that the […]
Continue ReadingSince Russia started airstrikes in Syria last year, about 10,000 persons have been killed, a monitoring group which documents violence in the war-torn country said Friday. The toll includes 3,804 civilians, among them 906 children, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It added that the strikes also killed 2,746 members of the Islamic […]
Continue ReadingAt the completion of collation of results by INEC, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress has been declared winner of the election, with Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his Peoples Democratic Party rival coming second. Figures computed following official declaration of results by the Independent National Electoral Commission shows that Obaseki has won 319,484 votes, ahead of […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday appointed Chief Executives for 13 Federal Government agencies.Bolaji Adebiyi, the Director of Press in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) stated this in a statement in Abuja. He listed the appointments are as follows: Joseph Ari: Director-General, Industrial Training Fund Isa Ibrahim: Director-General, National […]
Continue ReadingHillary Clinton was the winner in a one-sided debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, an Emmy award winning American political psychologist said, a verdict that was generally upheld by many debate watchers in America. A CNN poll gave Hillary 62 per cent and Donald Trump 27 per cent. Eleven per cent were undecided. Political psychologist, […]
Continue ReadingAbubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram insurgents appeared in a new video to dispute the claims of the military that he was badly injured or probably dead from airstrikes weeks ago. The Nigerian Air Force had in a statement last month said Shekau was fatally wounded from unprecedented air strikes targeted at a gathering of […]
Continue ReadingEdo state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has declared Tuesday September 27 and Wednesday September 28 as public holiday for the conduct of the gubernatorial election scheduled for September 28. According to the governor, the purpose of the holidays is to enable workers travel to wherever they registered as voters to exercise their franchise. He announced the […]
Continue ReadingAn international organization with focus on human rights, Amnesty International, has accused some officers of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of engaging in illegalities to make money. In a report released on Wednesday, the group said rather than work in line with its mandate of combating violent crime, the unit — carved out of the […]
Continue ReadingSTATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE 71ST SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY NEW YORK, USA 20 SEPTEMBER 2016The President of the General Assembly His Excellency Mr. Peter Thomson The Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon Your Excellencies Heads of State and […]
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