Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a boost from Brexit supporters on Thursday as he marked one week until election day by setting out a plan for his first 100 days in office.
The Conservative leader appears increasingly confident of victory on December 12 as he remains around 10 points ahead of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in opinion polls.
The electoral threat posed by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, meanwhile, receded further with the decision of four of its European Parliament MPs to endorse the prime minister.
Johnson has promised to get Britain out of the European Union on January 31, after …
The former Presidential Adviser on Women Affairs to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dame Titilayo Ajanaku, is dead.
Ajanaku, who passed on at the age of 73 on Thursday morning, was reported have breathed her last having battled with cancer.
The deceased was until her death the Otun Iyalode of Egbaland.
The late politician, trained nurse, administrator and women leader was born on January 25, 1946 at Àgọ́-Òdo Quarters Abeokuta, Ogun State.
She attended Nawair-Ud-Deen Secondary School, Abeokuta, She trained in Nursing at Stobhill General Hospital, Nether-Edge City General Hospital, Sheffield, UK, …
An object suspected to be an improvised explosive device has exploded at Glory Land High School,Azugwu, in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
The incident which happened at about 11 am caused serious confusion and panic within the school and its vicinity.
THE SUN, NIGERIA…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Thursday conducted a counter insurgency operation exercise at Ipetun Ijesa, Osun State with a warning to terrorists and other criminal groups terrorizing the peace in the south west to stay clear or have themselves to blame.
The exercise codenamed ‘Buje Ekun’ took place along the Akure-Oshogbo Expressway.
Chief Of the Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar who gave the warning, said the NAF, was more than ever before ready to rid the South West region and indeed the country of criminals.
He has therefore warned all those in the habit of breaching the peace of …
The catholic community in Onitsha Archdiocese was thrown into mourning yesterday following the reported death of her Director of Social Communications, Rev. Fr Pius Uchenna Ukor.
Ukor, a happy and easy going priest also in charge of the Onitsha Archdiocesan owned newspaper, Trinitas, reportedly slumped and died in a football pitch in Asaba Delta State Wednesday evening while coaching a football match between the catholic priests of Onitsha Archdiocese and Issele Uku diocese.
The death has also been confirmed on the verified Facebook page of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN
Lagos State Governor Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to focus on technology to combat crime in the state.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed this at the 13th Annual Town Hall Meeting on security, which was organised by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), with the theme ‘Transformational Security’.
The town hall event is organisd as a feedback mechanism where residents and other stakeholders in the security system meet to obtain a first-hand report on the state of security in Lagos, serving also as a forum for fundraising towards improving state security.
The Governor commended the efforts of the …
“I have never requested for or collected one kobo as pension from R/State Govt,” Amaechi said on Twitter on Thursday
“If offered, I will politely decline & request that the money should be given to Rivers State pensioners.”
A federal high court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the federal government to recover pensions and allowances paid to former and serving ministers and senators that are ex-governors.
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Every now and then there is talk about foreign religions. The two religions to which our minds race at the mention of foreign religions are Christianity and the Islamic faith. We read and we hear of years of resistance and wars in different lands and in different communities, in centuries past. The natives everywhere see the advent of the religions as an intrusion into their own ways of life; it was an attempt at supplanting their religions and ways of worship for those of the Whiteman. The people of old not exposed to Western education resisted them. The modern man, …
Former Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Turner Isoun, has warned that violence during the election period may persist if the nation refuses to deploy electronic voting (e-voting).
He gave the submission yesterday at the 6th yearly international conference of the International Society of Comparative Education, Science and Technology (ISCEST) in Abuja.
Isoun, who served as minister from 2000 to 2007 under Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, said the country was capable of deploying technology throughout its electoral process if only political leaders could be a bit more committed.
While delivering a …
