TheHILL | VIEWPOINT | NOVEMBER 30. By Substance Udo-Nature In a rough year like 2021, a historic year the entire world is struggling to rise from the ruins of the intractable and ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, a year that practically everybody has found buckets of excuses to offer for poor performance, the news that Akwa Ibom […]
TheHILL | NATIONAL | NOVEMBER 30. A delegation from the Coalition of Northern Groups drawn from the nineteen states in the Northern part of the country, has called on Nigerian leaders to adopt the peace model of Governor Udom Emmanuel in Akwa Ibom State, as a panacea for security and development of the nation. Speaking […]
TheHILL | METRO | November 30. Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun Command, says it has arrested two persons, a father and a grandfather, for allegedly raping their 13-year-old daughter/granddaughter. The command’s Spokesperson, Mr Adigun Daniel, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Osogbo on Monday, said that the suspects were arrested […]
By Tom FredFish It is one thing for the government to set agenda, and the other to achieve its purpose. A promising government agenda must be consistent with three factors which are actors, resources, and institutions. Actors are people needed to drive the policy; resources are cash and material on the ground and institutions […]
TheHILL | NEWS | NOVEMBER 29. By Etim ETIM A modern and well-appointed students hostel, built and donated by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the University of Uyo, would be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, December 7. The complex will accommodate 1,000 students (500 males and 500 females), and has modern […]
TheHILL | NEWS | NOVEMBER 29. The Federal Government has directed the Nigeria Customs Service to ground 91 private jets belonging to some wealthy Nigerians over their alleged refusal to pay import duties running to over N30bn, TheHILL can authoritaritatively report. As such, the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali, (retd.) following a directive from […]
TheHILL | TECH | NOVEMBER 29. Social media platform Twitter has agreed to all the conditions laid out by the Federal Government regarding its operations in Nigeria, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus, said yesterday. The minister, who is also a member of a committee, set up to review the operations of the […]
TheHILL | METRO | NOVEMBER 29. A co-defendant with alleged billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, Chiemeka Arinze, has died in prison custody. Evans is standing trial alongside, Joseph Emeka, Chiemeka Arinze and Udeme Ukpong, over the attempted kidnap of Chief Vincent Obianodo, the Chairman of the Young Shall Grow Motors, before […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | November 29. Canada said on Monday morning that it has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid in two people who had travelled recently to Nigeria. The government of Ontario confirmed that the two cases are in the capital, Ottawa. Federal and Ontario provincial officials said both […]
TheHILL | VIEWPOINT | NOVEMBER 29. By Adeparua Damilola POVERTY is not just a state of being poor and people do not just become poor as some factors are responsible for the enhancement of poverty. In the society, observation enables one to realize that there are few wealthy individuals with the majority of the people […]