Hundreds of mourners are lining up in central Moscow to bid farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union often credited with bringing an end to the cold war. The farewell ceremony, which is being held in the Hall of Pillars in Moscow’s House of theUnions will be followed by a closed…
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has said that the insecurity bedeviling Nigeria was confined to the Northeast when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was in power, but it has escalated to all parts of Nigeria under the All-Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Makarfi , also a former Chairman of the PDP, assured…
A Filmmaker and Director, David Royal Ogbonna has urged the Federal Government at all levels to create a film commission for the industry to strive and contribute more to the country’s GDP. David Royal who graduated from the prestigious Federal University of Calabar, UNICAL in 2017 with 4.3 Grade Point Average [GPA] in the Department…
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged lecturers at the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) to end their seven-month-long sympathy strike with the national body of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Governor Diri insisted that the sympathy industrial action by lecturers of the university was no longer justifiable as they have been…
The scheduled meeting of 21 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja could not hold, yesterday, despite series of pre-event publicity in the days leading to the parley. The roundtable earlier slated for 2pm at Transcorp Hilton, was for the aspirants to come up with viable strategies to support the APC standard…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Spokesman, Mr. Festus Keyamo, Wednesday, berated Delta State Governor, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Vice Presidential Candidate Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, over comments he made to ridicule the APC, presidential running made Kashim Shettima. Reacting to an online report in a tweet monitored by Erevison MediaTV, Keyamo cited the…
…Atiku having sleepless nights over Wike’s demands, interests around ex-VP not disposed to requests…Ayu may resist stepping down—PDP source There are indications that presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may have driven into a political cul-de-sac over conditions listed by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and National Chairman of…
Nasir Isa Kwarra, Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), has assured that the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census would be insulated from politics. Kwarra gave the assurance on Monday when he led a team of NPC Federal Commissioners on an advocacy visit to the residence of Chief Edwin Clark in…
Edited By Robinson Erebi All over the world, census remains a key component for national development. Nigeria has a long history of census taking spanning several decades. The National Population Commission is saddled with the responsibility of conducting Population and Housing Census in Nigeria. In 2006 the population of Nigeria was put at 140.43 million…
By Robinson Erebi As far as legacy projects of the present administration President Muhammadu Buhari is concerned, census is serious business, like a peacetime war. So, when the ebullient Executive Chairman of the National Population Commission Hon. Nasir Isa Kwarra announced to a mammoth gathering of the Academia in April 2022 during a workshop that…
