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A new Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda has been deployed to the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. A statement on Wednesday by Mrs Enefaa Bob–Manuel, Director, Information of the ministry, said Aduda’s deployment was contained in a Head of Service circular dated Oct. 4, 2022, with reference number; HCSF/248/III/163. Speaking...
The House of Representatives has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately suspend the sale of Polaris Bank Plc. The House said the suspension should be until the CBN deposit Insurance Corporation and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria concluded all processes for open, transparent, and competitive...
The House of Representatives has resolved to probe circumstances that led to the setting ablaze of an oil vessel allegedly involved in oil theft by security operatives. This followed the adoption of a motion on urgent national importance moved by Rep. Onofiok Luke (PDP-Akwa-Ibom) at the plenary session on...
The Minister of State Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has reiterated Nigeria’s readiness to use gas to help fast track the country’s industrialisation agenda. Speaking at a dinner with the diplomatic community in Abuja, Sylva said that gas was the only single energy source that could help Nigeria diversify...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expected to decline to 3.6 per cent in 2022 as against 4.7 per cent recorded in 2021. This is according to the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook Growth Projections Report October 2022 titled: “Countering the Cost-of-Living...
United Nations agencies on Wednesday said severe drought followed by floods has led to rocketing food prices and left a record of 2.1 million people acutely hungry in Chad. The United Nations children’s fund said as a result of the climate disaster, 10 per cent of all children under...
Local vigilance group “Hisbah’’ in Jigawa arrested 31 persons, including 25 women in Kazaure Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday over alleged “immoral acts’’. Hisbah commander in the state, Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, said the suspects were arrested at about 6 a.m. for allegedly engaging in prostitution and...
Social media app TikTok plans to operate U.S. warehouses and product fulfilment centres to create its own e-commerce supply chain system, job listings on its website and LinkedIn indicate. TikTok reportedly began piloting a shopping feature last year in the United States, Canada and Britain through a deal with...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria at the Council chamber of the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the swearing in of Ariwoola followed his confirmation by the Senate on Sept 21 three...
. The Attorney-General of the Federation(AGF), Abubakar Malami, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) approval to prosecute former Aviation Minister, Sen. Stella Oduah, and others on alleged N5 billion fraud. Prosecuting counsel, Hassan Liman, SAN, on Wednesday, informed Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – A Non Governmental Organization (NGO), Search For Common Ground has organized a two day training workshop for Borno and Yobe State journalists and social media influencers on sensitive conflict information and communication strategies and programing at the grassroots level. The capacity building training workshop...
The Federal Government will begin the pilot phase of the emergency ambulance services on Friday in Abuja to facilitate access to first aid and healthcare in life-threatening situations. Dr Felix Ogedegbe, the Chairman, National Emergency Medical Treatment Committee (NEMTC), made this on Wednesday in Abuja during a Bi-Weekly Ministerial...
The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has commended three U.S. museums for the repatriation of 31 Benin Bronze artifacts, which were violently taken away from the Royal Palace of Benin by British forces in 1897. Ewuare II, represented by his brother, Aghatise Erediauwa, gave the commendation at the Benin...
Nigeria has so far recorded 1,180 suspected cases of monkeypox. The country also recorded 482 cases and seven deaths resulting from monkeypox in 2022. These were made known in Abuja by the Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa at a bi-weekly ministerial media conference anchored...
The management of Dangote Industries Ltd. (DIL) says it owns Obajana Cement plant 100 per cent and its acquisition in 2002 followed due process. The company said this in a statement issued by Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Head Branding and Communications, DIL, titled, ‘Obajana Cement Plant: Separating Facts from...
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed says Nigeria has signed an agreement with Germany for the repatriation of over 1,130 looted Benin Bronze artifacts back to the country. Mohammed disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington DC on Tuesday, after three...
Manchester City are through to the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds even though they were held 0-0 at Copenhagen on Tuesday. But they without Erling Haaland, while also missing a penalty kick and having Sergio Gomez red-carded. However, the English champions advanced with two games to spare because Sevilla...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – The Minister of Sports and Youths Development, Sunday Dare has charged the newly elected Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) to improve all levels of football in the country. He gave the charge in Abuja on Tuesday when the new NFF executive board...
The conferment of national honours on Adamu Adamu and Mohammed Bello — the respective ministers of education and the Federal Capital Territory — has been described as ‘scandalous’ and injurious to Nigeria’s image. Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos-based human rights lawyer, condemned the awards in an interview with THE WHISTLER on Tuesday....