Author: Alade Adisa

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former Nigerian president has said that Africa will continue to collaborate with China for economic development. The former president spoke during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), at the 70th anniversary of the association in Beijing on Friday. Obasanjo represented the InterAction Council at the meeting. Obasanjo, in a statement by his media assistant, Kehinde Akinyemi, said Chinese cooperation with Africa has not only advanced infrastructural development but also facilitated the transfer of technology and the exchange of personnel. The ex-president said: “The development…

Human rights advocate and the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has accused the Nigerian Immigration Service of harassing him at the airport. In a post on his X page accompanied by a video on Friday, Sowore accused Immigration of attempting to prevent him from leaving Nigeria because his name is on their watchlist. He wrote: “The Nigerian Immigration Service #nigimmigration continues to subject me to unwarranted harassment and abuse. Violating my rights repeatedly. “Today, again, they stopped me on my way out of Nigeria, claiming I am placed on their WATCHLIST!” Sowore was arrested…

The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri has been suspended by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekeremor LGA of Bayelsa State for allegedly supporting the re-election bid of Governor Douye Diri, who is of the rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023. Chairman of the APC in Ekeremor, Mitin Eniekenemi at a press conference on Friday, also alleged that the minister has been fighting the party in the state since he was appointed minister. Eniekenemi said Lokpobiri’s close associate, Kharim Kumoko was appointed a commissioner by Diri after he was nominated by the minister. The state APC…

Immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has been summoned to appear before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja over allegations of criminal breach of trust and possession of unlawfully acquired property. The former governor, according to the summons issued by Justice Maryann E. Anenih, was alleged to have committed the offences between 2016 and 2023. The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the development on its from the X handle on Friday. According to the court documents, Bello is accused of violating Section 311 of the Penal Code Law, Cap. 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963,…

The Federal Government has flagged off the sale of the subsidized 50kg rice at N40,000. The sale took off in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Thursday. Speaking at the ceremony to signify the flag-off of the sale, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, who was represented by Mrs. Toyin Ayo-Ajayi, the ministry’s State Director, said it was “one of the numerous programmes initiated to bring succour and relief to Nigerians.” The minister said the distribution was being monitored by several federal government agencies to ensure transparency, fairness and adequate security. Kyari stated that the government had…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that married women no longer have to provide a letter of approval from their husbands to obtain a visa clearance certificate. The NDLEA’s visa clearance certificate is a document that proves an individual has no drug-related convictions in Nigeria — a requirement by some countries. Previously, the NDLEA mandated married women to submit a “letter of approval to travel from their husband, attached with his passport photograph,” to obtain the certificate. This rule, however, did not apply to men. The policy came under fire recently when an X user criticized the…

Tennis great, Rafael Nadal has announced he will retire at the end of the 2024 season. The 38-year-old Spaniard will compete in his final professional event at the Davis Cup Finals to be held in Malaga from 19 to 24 November. The player many refer to as the greatest ever on clay court, in Spanish in a video posted on X said, “Hello everyone, I am here to let you know I am retiring from professional tennis. “The reality is it has been some difficult years, especially these last two. I don’t think I have been able to play without…

With the US presidential election around the corner, the hugely influential former President of The United States (POTUS), Barack Obama will on Thursday join the campaign train of Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris in a well-calculated move to get out the vote in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. The flamboyant first Black president of the world’s leading democracy, Obama, 63, who was president from 2009 to 2017, is hitting the campaign trail in the steel city of Pittsburgh a day after Harris’s Republican rival, Donald Trump charged through the must-win state. Obama, who still wields so much influence…

The Republican Party candidate in the forthcoming United States presidential election, Donald Trump has ruled out a second presidential debate with rival Kamala Harris on Wednesday, hours after Fox News offered to host a candidate showdown later this month before election day on November 5. Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic Party candidate and the former president locked in an excruciatingly close battle for the White House, have faced off just once, in September, and despite suggestions by multiple news outlets, it appears they will not meet again before the vote. Trump said in an all-caps post on…

The Lagos State Government has appealed to youths in the state to enroll in the military. Making the appeal during the quarterly meetings with the members of the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in Ikeja on Wednesday, the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Bimbola Salu-Hundeyin said the security of a nation was everybody’s business and being in the military was a service to the state and the nation at large. The SSG said it was disheartening to know that indigenous youths of the state were not enrolling in the military, as seen during the last recruitment. She added that…