By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund, Sir Joseph N. Ari was conferred with the Leadership Public Service Person of the year 2022 Award on Tuesday in Abuja. The Award was for his home-grown initiatives that expanded existing skills acquisition programmes, which led to...
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By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – MTN Nigeria has announced Kate Ene as its CEO for a day following her emergence as the winner of the 2022 MTN mPulse Spelling Bee out of over 11,000 participants who registered for the competition. Kate, an inspiring 14-year-old student from Intimacy with Christ...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it apprehended six operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Kano State over alleged illicit registration of candidates for 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this after monitoring the registration in Kano...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) to grow its Assets Under Management from the current value of N18 trillion, to at least N100 trillion in the next 10 years. President Buhari gave the charge on Wednesday at the State...
Pope Francis has denounced the “poison of greed” driving conflicts in Africa, saying the rich world needs to realise that people are more precious than the minerals in the earth beneath them. Many tens of thousands of people cheered as he travelled from the airport into the capital Kinshasa...
Sen. Teslim Folarin, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Oyo State, has predicted the emergence of Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, as the winner of Feb. 25 election. Folarin, while featuring on the maiden Guest Forum of Oyo State Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists...
A Magistrate court in Ondo state has ordered the remand of a 43-year-old clergyman identified as Paul Oyewole who was arraigned for allegedly publishing and posting his obituary on social media in his bid to evade payment of N3 million he owed one of his church members. Vanguard reports...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has decorated 29 referees with the FIFA badges and charged them to be upright in the discharge of their duties. The NFF President, Ibrahim Gusau gave the charge at the 2023 FIFA badging Ceremony at the Conference Hall of the Goal Project, Abuja on...
The remains of late Aisha Maina, the Special Adviser on Female Education Board to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State had been buried on Wednesday in Sokoto. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maina died on Tuesday at the Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto as result...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano, on Wednesday, admitted two Shari’a Court judges, a cashier and 16 other financial registrars to bail for alleged N580.2 million theft. The defendants: Sani Muhammad, Sani Buba-Aliyu, Bashir Baffa, Garzali Wada,, Hadi Tijjani Mu’azu, Alkasim Abdullahi, Yusuf Abdullahi, Mustapha Bala Ibrahim, Jafar Ahmad,...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Muhammad Nami, has stated that his recognition by the LEADERSHIP Awards as the Newspaper’s Public Service Person of the Year 2022 is a morale booster for the Service to do more. Mr. Nami stated this...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The leadership of the Ambazonia Interim Government, an independentist group in Southern Cameroon has called on the United States Government to take the led in the negotiation process that will lead to a peace talk with La Republique du Cameroon (LRC). NATIONAL ACCORD reports...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed Feb. 6 for judgment in the long drawn legal battle over the authenticity of the Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC. Entangled in the legal battle for the Senatorial ticket is the incumbent Senate’s President, Ahmad Lawan and Bashir Machina. The...
Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has appointed the vice-minister of education, Manuela Roka Botey, as prime minister, the first time a woman has held the role in the West African country. Botey’s new position was announced on state television late on Tuesday. Obiang, 80, was re-elected for a...
The Muslim Right Concern (MURIC), has called for justice for a women allegedly raped inside a worship centre in Oyo State. MURIC said this in a statement by its Oyo State Ambassador, Mr Ibrahim Agunbiade on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that the group would do everything within its...
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has expressed optimism that the 2023 general elections would be the best ever in Nigeria. Lawan expressed the optimism on Tuesday in Abuja when he received a delegation of the European Union election observers and former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga who paid separate courtesy...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has urged lawmakers and Nigerians to show understanding, adding that the apex bank was out to combat the incidence of insecurity in the country. Emefele made the call in Abuja on Tuesday before the House of Representatives’ fact finding...
Emeritus Prof. Shuaib Oba, Kwara’s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) governorship candidate, says politics should not be seen as a dirty game left to politicians alone if Nigeria is to be fully developed. Oba, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, urged Nigerians, especially the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed dozens of terrorists and captured more than 40 in recent operations in the Lake Chad Basin. The Chief of Military Public Information for MNJTF, Lt.-Col. Kamarudeen Adegoke, made this known in a statement on Wednesday...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to introduce new social investment program and make Cross River State a new tourism wonder of the world. Tinubu said the investment programmes will improve business productivity,widen access to affordable finance...