Energy: BEDC Pay NBET N11Billion monthly to Distribute Electricity to Consumers New Boss Reveals
Paul Okojie The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc, Deolu Ijose, yesterday, stated the company needs the cooperation of electricity consumers in its franchise states to meet their demands as it gets the invoice of about N11billion…
Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority first to approve ‘world-changer’ malaria vaccine
By Paul Okojie Ghana has now become the first country in the world to approve malaria vaccine. The vaccine – called R21 – appears to be hugely effective, in stark contrast to previous ventures in the same field. Ghana’s drug…
We could use fascist for INEC, Chimamanda disagree with Prof. Soyinka
Admin Nigerian award winning writer and renowned novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, yesterday ramped up her criticism of the conduct of the 2023 presidential election, maintaining that President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu,…
Second Tennessee lawmaker to return to chamber after being expelled by house GOP
SOURCE AL JAZEERA A second Democratic legislator has been restored to his seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives after he was controversially expelled from the Republican-controlled chamber for taking part in a gun control protest. Representative Justin Pearson faced…
UK Immigration Detain Obi over offences committed by an imposter
By Paul Okojie The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, was detained for questioning by the United Kingdom’s immigration authorities during his visit for the Easter break over offences believed to have been committed by an imposter, the party’s Presidential…
Why Tinubu forfeited $460,000 in an Alleged Drug Case in the US — APC tells court
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has opened up on circumstances that led its candidate and President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to forfeit the sum of $460,000 to the government of the United States of America, USA, in 1993. The ruling party, in…
We are with you, Obi assures “Obidients”
By Paul Okojie The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has rrejiged and assured his followers, popularly referred to as ‘Obidients’, that he and his running mate Datti Baba-Ahmed are with them. This comes days after the…
OPINION: CONFRONTING CORRUPTION, A ROAD LESS TRAVELLED -TONY ABOLO
The flurry of tales around the sordid revelations around the NDDCsleaze, Magu’s accusations, with a bifurcation towards Malami, theAttorney General, has set the country stirred around whether or not, theworld’s poverty capital, Nigeria may sink under its moral morass. Tocompound…
Nigeria on red list for Health Workers’ recruitment -UK
By Paul Okojie Days following the World Health Organisation (WHO) tweaked the Health Workforce Support and Safeguard list, the United Kingdom has also revised its policy on recruitment of health workers from overseas. The code of practice for the international…
BRAKING NEWS: 5 Confirmed dead and 6 injured in Louisville, Kentucky shooting, police say
By Paul Okojie At least five people have been killed and at least six people have been transported to University of Louisville hospital, including one officer, with “various injuries,” police said. The status of those transported are unknown at this…