The Kwara Controller of Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS), Mr Aliu Baba-Usman, has advised personnel in the service on discipline and dedication to duty, as he retires after 30 years in service. Baba-Usman gave the advice during his sendforth ceremony at the state NCoS headquarters in Ilorin on Tuesday. According...
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The factional Governorship Candidate of the PDP in Ogun, Otunba Segun Showunmi, says all stakeholders and members of the party will accept the Court’s verdict on its authentic 2023 flagbearer. Showunmi in statement in Lagos on Tuesday, said there was no division in Ogun PDP. He expressed optimism and...
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says it has disbursed a total of 103,037,183,922.91 billion Naira bridging claims to oil marketers between December 2021 and August 2022. The authority disclosed this at the end of its meeting with the Northern Independent Petroleum Marketers Forum (NIPMF) and...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – Unless the Presidency or the National Assembly quickly wades into the issue of appointment a new Auditor-General for the Federation (AGF), the serious crisis that has greeted the announcement of Mr. Julius Michael Isiuku as the acting occupant of the office may tear the...
Former BBNaija star, KiddWaya whose real name is Terseer Waya has engaged his Caucasian partner. In a video shared on Instagram, media personality, Daddy Freeze, revealed that the former Big Brother Naija housemate and his fiance are showing their fans how to love. In the video, KiddWaya and his...
The Rivers State Police Command has rescued 15 children who were kidnapped within and outside the state and kept in the house of a fake Rev. Sister in Aluu, Ikwerre LGA of the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, disclosed this in Port Harcourt, at a news...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Engr. Shehu Hadi Ahmad has charged the newly inaugurated Executive Committee members of the FCDA Staff Multi-purpose Cooperative Society to refrain from anything that will further dent the image of the Cooperative Society and by...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has granted bail to the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, in the sum of N300m with two sureties in like sum. Justice Daniel Osiagor on Tuesday granted bail following no objections from the EFCC. thye Speaker...
Liz Truss on Tuesday officially became Britain’s new prime minister, at an audience with head of state Queen Elizabeth II after the resignation of Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary, 47, was seen in an official photograph shaking hands with the monarch to accept her offer to form a...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Nigeria and Poland on Tuesday in Abuja signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Agriculture, while pledging their willingness to enlarge the fields of economic cooperation in the energy and manufacturing sectors. The signing took place during the State Visit of President Andrezej Duda...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Obong of Calabar Executive Forum (OCEF) has expressed displeasure at the continued piling up of refuses on the streets of Calabar, the Cross River State capital. This is contained In a statement signed by The Chairman of the OCEF, Chief Gershom Henshaw and the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Zulum surprised visit to the hospital by 10pm shortly after his arrival in Bama town by road from...
A South African pastor who died over a year ago is still to be buried as his family, and members of his congregation are patiently waiting for his resurrection. Pastor Siva Moodley, the founder of The Miracle Centre in the north of Johannesburg, died at the age of 53...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt Gen Farouk Yahaya has flagged off the 2022 Nigerian Army’s second Commanding Officers’s workshop at the Giginya Barracks in Sokoto State. COAS Farouk who reiterated that training and retraining of personnel is very critical towards achieving success,...
Zambian Songwriter, Poet and Rapper has emerged Spotify’s EQUAL Africa Artiste for the month of September. Phiona Okumu, Spotify’s Head of Music for sub-Saharan Africa, said this, in a statement, on Tuesday. Okumu said EQUAL provided a diverse range of female musicians in Africa with the resources they need to accelerate their...
A Competition and Consumer Protection (CCPC) Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant a suit filed against MultiChoice, the operator of DStv and Gotv, over the recent price hike on their products and subscription rate..The three-member tribunal, headed by Mr Thomas Okosun, in a judgment, held that...
Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), on Tuesday commended Federal Government for suspending the five per cent excise duty charge on telecom facilities. The Executive Secretary of ATCON, Mr Ajibola Olude, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. He said investors...
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja met with Vice Chancellors and Pro-Chancellors of federal universities to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, at the meeting, described the indefinite strike by ASUU as an anguish and...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with President Andrzej Duda of Poland at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Polish President, who arrived the Presidential Villa at about 10.30a.m, was received by the Nigerian leader at the fore Court...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the new Prime Minister of Britain, Liz Truss, on her assumption of this trusted position of leadership. The President rejoiced with the former Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, whose antecedents in...