Dr. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Governor of Gombe State in North East Nigeria, will slug it out with 15 other candidates for the senatorial seat of Gombe North, a state with an easy going visibility as […]
Chief Chekwas Okorie is the National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP); in this exclusive interview with ADOYI M. ABA and PATRICK ANDREW, he speaks on why the party has decided to go with President […]
Minimum wage: Labour calls off planned nationwide strike …Committee to submit report to Buhari Tuesday The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off the planned nationwide strike over N30,000 […]
It is expected that when one is called upon to serve in government or any organisation, unalloyed loyalty becomes the guiding principle. It goes without saying that commitment on the part of the servant must […]
Something mysterious, queasily spectacular, and extremely dangerous is happening in Cape Town. In the space of a few months, half of the city’s entire stock of more than 80 suburban trains has been set on […]
Fake pictures circulating on social media which users are falsely claiming depict inter-communal violence are inflaming already high tensions in Nigeria. It comes after three days of violence left more than 200 people dead in […]
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday said it was organising a quiz competition in conjunction with the Benue state Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (BERWASA) and the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) […]
Youths and stakeholders under the auspices of the Bindow Awareness for Change (BAC) has raised the alarm over what it alleged as a “big supply of the All Progressives Congress (APC) fake membership cards and […]
Three religious groups, Abuja Muslim Forum (AMF), Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria (MMWG) and Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), have called for the probe of transactions of the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET). Similarly, […]
Nigeria celebrates its 58th anniversary as an independent nation today. October 1, 1960 saw the exit of British rulers after close to a century of colonialism, followed by wild jubilations across the length and breadth […]
President Muhammadu Buhari (2nd right), receiving the 2019 APC presidential nomination form purchased by the Nigeria Consolidation Ambassadors Network, from leader of the group, Hon Farouk Adamu Aliyu (2nd left), at the State House, in […]
Momoh Yusuf Obaro is an aspiring senator from Kogi Central Senatorial District. He speaks to TOPE SUNDAY on his plan to tackle hunger in his constituency, the gale of defection hitting his party –the APC, […]
Advanced Learners Dictionary calls the word smart as a verb or adjective and goes on to define it as looking clean and neat, well dressed in fashionable or formal clothes. However, the Executive Secretary, Tertiary […]
Though Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, wrote, “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was […]
Leader, KAICIID International Fellows Programme, Sheikh Isah Christian Okonkwo (5th right), in a group photograph with the Muslim and Christian youth leaders, during a religious training programme for the youth leaders on inter-religious dialogue, in […]
Imal Silva is a Sri Lankan-Nigerian entrepreneur, who has resided in Nigeria for over 35 years. The Sri Lankan-Nigerian, who is also married to a Nigerian, in this interview with TOPE SUNDAY and KEHINDE OSASONA, […]
There’s an old Chinese saying, “good friends feel close to each other even when they are thousands of miles away,” and the same can be said about China-Africa relations today. Despite the geographical distance between […]
Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Bauchi state chapter, during a protest on violence against media, in Bauchi yesterday Photo: Deji Yake/JAU/NAN
The National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, has adopted direct primary for the conduct of its presidential primary, while the contest for the governorship, Senate, House of Representatives tickets will take the indirect […]
The stage appears set for another round of face-off between the National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari, over the N143billion budget the legislature approved for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, expressed confidence that the recent defections of Senate President Bukola Saraki and other party chieftains, won’t affect the party’s fortune in 2019 general elections. The President who described the current structure […]
From left: Wife of the Bauchi state Governor, Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed Abubakar, wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, President Muhammadu Buhari, his wife Hajiya Aisha Buhari, and the Director General, National Centre for […]
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