Festus Keyamo says the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu will soon be back in the country. The spokesman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) made the comment on Wednesday following concerns raised about Tinubu’s continued stay in the UK. “I know he would be back...
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All is now set for the 2022 annual conference of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) billed for Thursday, October 6 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, as keynote speaker and panellists are now in town for the epoch event. Confirming the development, Chairman, 2022 Conference Committee, Mr. Ken...
The Federal Government says plans are ongoing to add additional 817 Megawatts (MWs) of electricity to the national grid to boost power supply within the FCT and its environs. Mr Sule Abdulaziz, the Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), said this in Abuja while inspecting ongoing projects...
The Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee (CDSAC), has announced the release of all the remaining 23 Abuja-Kaduna train passengers abducted by terrorists on March 28. A statement by the Secretary of CDSAC, Prof. Usman Yusuf, said the release of the hostages was secured on Wednesday. The statement reads:...
The International Foundation for Science, IFS, has awarded a grant worth $15,000 to Dr Gabriel Anyanwu of the Department of Biochemistry, Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, to support his research work, which seeks plant remedies for diabetes and obesity. IFS is a non-governmental organization based in Sweden. It supports...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to ensure the security of lives and property in the Federal Capital Territory intensifies, the Department of Development Control (FCTA) has sealed off a massive uncompleted 3 storey building located at plot 22 Cadastral zone, A05, Udi Hills Street, Maitama which...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says African countries must evolve strategies for the sustainable development of the continent’s blue economy through exploration and exploitation of seabed minerals. Osinbajo said this while declaring open the 4th Africa’s Deep Seabed Resources (ADSR) sub-Regional workshop in Abuja on Wednesday. The vice-president, who was represented...
South African Singer, Elaine, has been selected by Spotify, an online streaming platform to join the EQUAL AFRICA programme aimed at spotlighting female artists across the continent. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music for sub-Saharan Africa, in a statement, said Elaine had become Spotify’s EQUAL Africa artiste for the...
Former Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, (AMEN), Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has urged members of the church to remain calm and stop protesting but to pray for him. Mbaka made the call while leaving for the Monastery on Wednesday in obedience to the church order. The News Agency of...
Serious panic was recorded at Aroma junction Awka, Anambra capital on Wednesday when a tanker carrying substance suspected to be inflammable fell and began to spill its content. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident caused passengers, drivers, hawkers and others around the place to scamper...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned a purported ad hoc staff recruitment portal for 2023 general election, describing it as fake. INEC said this in a release on its official social handles on Wednesday, urging members of the public to disregard the...
The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) on Wednesday released results of the 2022 In-School National Business Certificate (NBC) and the National Technical Certificate (NTC) examinations. Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, Registrar and Chief Executive of the board at a press conference in Benin, announced that a total of 87,668...
A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia has reserved Friday, Oct. 7 for judgment in the suit challenging the outcome of the APC gubernatorial primaries purportedly held in Abia on May 26. A governorship aspirant of the party in the state, Chief Dan Eke, is urging the court to...
A Wuse Zone Six Chief Magistrates’ Court, in Abuja on Wednesday granted bail to Prof. Zainab Abiola and her domestic staff, Rebecca Enechido. Magistrate Elizabeth Wonu, having listened to the arguments of both counsel in regard to the bail application, granted them bail with certain terms and conditions. Wonu...
The Court of Appeal has fixed Thursday to entertain the suit filed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) seeking a stay of execution of the ruling of the National Industrial Court which ordered it to call of the strike. When the matter was called on Wednesday, counsel...
The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested two suspected rapists in two separate incidents in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Ahmad Magaji-Kontagora told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday that one of the suspects raped an 8-year-old girl while the other raped his mentally unstable sister. “One...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has endorsed the 2023 budget proposal for onward presentation to the National Assembly. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, confirmed this when he addressed State House Correspondents after the Council meeting on Wednesday. The meeting was presided over by...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Federal government through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission has completed work on the reviewed remuneration package for teachers in basic and secondary schools including provisions for rural posting allowance, science teachers’ allowance and peculiar allowance. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) has kicked against the position of Dr. Omar Alieu-Touray, President of ECOWAS Commission, on subsequent vacancies at the Commission as he takes the mantle of leadership. The Commission’s President was reported to have said during a town-hall...
Reverend Father Mbaka, the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), has denied prophesying against the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. Father Mbaka in a new video on the AMEN’s official page, stated that he never mentioned the former Anambra State governor’s name during...