President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why he did not prefer any presidential candidate to others during the presidential primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The President said he had learnt from past experience as he failed to become the country’s leader three times until the fourth attempt through …

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Faculty of Law building, University of Calabar (UNICAL) 11 years after it was started. The project was facilitated by Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, leader of the 7th Senate, who represented Cross River Central from 2003 to 2015. President Buhari, while inaugurating the project on Saturday …

David Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case that sent Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has said he wanted to remain and work in the UK, as “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. His impact statement was read in court, at the sentencing …

The African Development Bank Group has launched a six-month campaign to sensitize its internal and external stakeholders on its new Whistleblowing Policy, approved by the Boards of Directors in January this year. The Whistleblowing Policy 2023 builds on a 2007 policy, which at the time was widely considered progressive and …

A Senatorial aspirant of the Northern Senatorial District in the Cross River State All Progressive Congress (APC) primaries held last year, Barrister Cecilia Omonya Adams, has drummed support for Senator Godswill Akpabio’s bid to occupy the seat of Senate President in the 10th National Assembly (NASS) expected to be inaugurated …

The Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission, Dr Abdulmalik Durunguwa, has assured Nigerians that the 2023 Census will address the myriad of problems bedevilling the country. Durunguwa, representing Kaduna State at the commission, stated this during a chat with members of the Southern Kaduna Journalists Forum in Abuja on Friday. He …

A judge at The Central Criminal Court, also known as the Old Bailey, has sentenced former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, his wife Beatrice, and Doctor Obinna Obeta to jail At a sentencing hearing on Friday, Ekweremadu was jailed for nine years and eight months, his wife Beatrice was sentenced …

Some 40 kilometers south of the Rwandan capital of Kigali in the Bugesera District, construction vehicles and high-visibility vests swarm across an arid expanse of land. Here, two strips of tarmac are the cornerstone of a $2 billion airport, whose developers want it to be the jewel in the crown …

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to improve education funding and allocation to the sector, Nigerian students have continued to troop abroad, and in droves in pursuit of foreign education. So far, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data on payment analysis has shown that citizens have spent about $4 billion …

The African Development Bank and ILX Management B.V., an Amsterdam-based fund manager, have agreed to partner on scaling institutional investor capital for the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) and climate-focused private sector projects in the Bank’s regional member countries. The cooperation arrangement enables the African Development Bank to deliver on its …