Entries by Oluwafisayo Adefe

PRESIDENT TINUBU VOWS TO END HOSPITALS’ POWER CRISIS

President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to refurbishing Nigeria’s health sector, with a strong emphasis on tackling the persistent power supply crisis across federal hospitals. Represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, at the National Stakeholders’ Dialogue on Power in the Health Sector, the President declared that […]

Nottingham Forest Confirm Nuno Departure Amid Ongoing Managerial Talks.

Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo, has been sacked after twenty-one months in charge, and just three games into the season. The position of the Portuguese coach had been uncertain for two weeks since he publicly declared his relationship with owner, Evangelos Marinakis, had deteriorated. From several reports, talks are under way over Nuno’s […]

National Assembly Topples Bayrou After Just 9 Months, France Faces Political Uncertainty.

After just nine months in office, French Prime Minister François Bayrou is out, as he has been toppled in a confidence vote by lawmakers. The National Assembly voted three hundred and sixty-four to one hundred and ninety-four to oust the seventy-four-year-old centrist, dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron and plunging France into yet […]

Nepal Lifts Social Media Ban After Deadly Protests Leave 19 Dead, Over 100 Injured.

Nepal has lifted a social media ban, which sparked protests and led to clashes with police that left at least nineteen people dead, and injured more than one hundred others. Dominion News earlier reported that, Nepal’s government ordered authorities to block twenty-six social media platforms for not complying with a deadline to register with Nepal’s […]

Major Opposition Candidates Disqualified Ahead of Ivory Coast Election.

. The Constitutional Council announced that former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam are ineligible to run in the October twenty-fifth vote. The council cited their removal from the electoral roll as the reason for their exclusion. Despite these disqualifications, both men had formally submitted their candidacies to challenge President Alassane […]

Akpoti-Uduaghan Barred from Senate as Suspension Dispute Heads to Court of Appeal.

The Senate has turned down Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s request to return to legislative duties, insisting that her six-month suspension is still in force until the Court of Appeal rules on her case. In a letter signed by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, the Senate acknowledged receiving the senator’s notice that […]

Retired Colonel Gbenga Adegbola Highlights Taxation as Key to Nigeria’s Economic Growth.

A Retired colonel of the Nigerian Army, Gbenga Adegbola, has ascertained that revenue mobilization through taxes is critical for financing infrastructure and achieving economic development in the country, stressing that the reforms under the renewed hope agenda are going up thereby ranking Nigeria in the list of World Bank of business index. Adegbola who stated […]