President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday declared that over 5,300 youths have benefited from the ₦75 billion Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF).
The NYIF was set up as an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to invest in innovative ideas, skills and talents of Nigerian youths to build sustainable businesses that can activate enterprise and increase job opportunities in the country.
Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, disclosed that his administration in his effort to empower youth had dished out …
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to fly out of Abuja on Sunday for Accra, Ghana, where he will attend an emergency Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS.
The summit has been convened to discuss recent political developments in Mali.
A statement issued by Buhari’s Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, noted the meeting was at the instance of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.
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It read: ‘As the situation in Mali continues to evolve, Nigeria
The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has called on Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, to immediately bring the killer(s) of the ex-aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmad Gulak, to justice.
The youths threatened to declare Governor Uzodinma persona non grata in the entire northern soil.
…A statement from its National President, Isah Abubakar, noted, ‘It’s so pathetic and saddened the continuous killing and lawlessness going on in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. The government of Imo State must give an account of those who killed Gulak. The continuous killing of Northern and destruction of security facilities
No fewer than six people were killed, including a woman who was burned alive, during an attack blamed on the regional militia group ADF in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Allied Democratic Forces were believed to have carried out the overnight attack on a road near the border with Uganda, where the group was founded.
‘ADF fighters attacked Kinyatsi, a village near the Virunga national park,’ said Donat Kibuana, local administrator for the Beni territory in North Kivu province.
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‘We have counted six people killed, …
The Chairman Senate Committee on the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Senator Gershom Bassey, has state governors against pushing for an increment in the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit, better known as petrol.
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum had during its virtual meeting on May 20, considered the report of a committee headed by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and accepted its recommendation that supported a full deregulation of the petroleum industry.
The El-Rufai panel was said to have suggested that the pump price of the product should hover around N385 per litre.
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Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in Croatia, a largely Catholic country where human rights activists say reproductive rights are increasingly under threat.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the marchers in capital Zagreb, most of whom did not wear masks, waived Croatian flags, sang patriotic songs, and carried banners such as ‘Unborn lives matter, too‘.
‘It’s our duty to advocate for the protection of every human life, including unborn children’, said Luka Hudincec, one of the organisers of the rally.
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London side, Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory over Manchester City in Saturday’s final in Porto, shattering Pep Guardiola’s dream of lifting the trophy for the third time, a decade on from his last triumph.
Havertz rounded Ederson to score three minutes before halftime at the Estadio do Dragao and the Chelsea players ran to the far end of the pitch to celebrate with the German.
Coach Thomas Tuchel, full of energy on the touchline just like his opposite number, punched the air in celebration, and later
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has accused Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari of ‘systematically and methodically destroying’ constitutional democracy in Nigeria going by his actions and inactions.
HIRIWA made the accusations against the President on Saturday in a statement by its National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf.
The statement alleged that the Buhari-led administration was gradually “replacing democracy with dictatorship”.
Reacting to the president’s democracy speech on Saturday, HURIWA further alleged that the current administration has ‘established corruption, permissive economic crimes amongst top federal government officials connected to the first …
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday(Today) for Accra, Ghana to attend an emergency Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS, convened to discuss recent political developments in Mali.
The meeting is at the instance of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.
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A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said prior to the Extraordinary Summit, the President had met with the Special Envoy and ECOWAS mediator in Mali, former President Goodluck Jonathan, who briefed him …
