2019

Abia Online Abia Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has charged the members of the newly constituted Abia State Scholarship Board to do thorough assessment of prospective beneficiaries of the State scholarship before making selection. The…

Nigerian singer David Adeleke, aka Davido, says there is no money Osun State can make in the next 40 years that his father, Adedeji Adeleke, has not already made as the ‘omo baba olowo’ crooner revealed why he stayed away from Nigeria for…

Barely 24 hours after the governorship primary election in the Bayelsa state, an aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Bayelsa 2019 governorship election, Great Joshua Maclver, has dumped his party for the All Progressives…

President, Nigerian Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, speaks on the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa in this interview with TOBI AWORINDE What culminated into the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa? Last…

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana has urged the federal government to sue the South Africa Government for compensation for the Nigerian victims of the xenophobic attacks. In a statement issued…

Domestic carrier, Air Peace, says it is willing to evacuate Nigerians to complement efforts of the Federal Government to check the death of Nigerians residing in South Africa. The Airline’s Chief Operating Officer, Mrs Oluwatoyin…

Nigeria has pulled out of the ongoing World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, over fresh xenophobic attacks. The country is also making plans to recall Kabiru Bala, its high commissioner to South Africa. A presidential source…

Bukola Saraki, the immediate past Senate President, on Wednesday cautioned Nigerians against reprisal attacks on business ventures erroneously believed to be owned by South African in the country. A video had surfaced online of South…

Despite appeals from the federal government against retaliatory attacks on South African businesses in Nigeria, hoodlums on Tuesday evening burned down the MTN office in Bodija, Ibadan, the Oyo capital. MTN, a South African telecoms…

The governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party ended abruptly in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen invaded the venue of the election, Lokoja Confluence Stadium. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria…