The Naira on Monday depreciated against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging at N434.75. The figure represents a decrease of 0.75 per cent, compared with N431.50 to the dollar at the close of business Sept. 2. The open indicative rate closed at N431.30 to the dollar...
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members remained resolute to get what public universities need from the Federal Government to survive and compete globally. Prof. Ayo Akinwole, the Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, made the assertions on Monday in Ibadan. Akinwole said that lecturers...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) will hold its second 2022 plenary from Sept. 8 to 16, at the Catholic Diocese of Orlu in Owerri Ecclesiastical Province, Imo. The Director of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Fr Mike Umoh, disclosed this in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has flagged off 5 days training for 50 unemployed graduates on Post Sustainable Agricultural Development Scheme (Post SADTS) in Sokoto. Flagging off the training, the Director General of NDE, Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo said they are geared towards...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Federal Government has inaugurated four Technical Working (TWGs) Groups to review and implement a strategic roadmap for the resuscitation of ailing enterprises in the country. They are for the Automobile, Housing (Bricks and Clay), Mines and Steel as well as Oil Palm sectors....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has declared strong support for the aspiration of Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, wife of Kebbi State Governor, who is now on a three-person shortlist for the presidency of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). In a letter to the candidate, the...
The Federal Government has suspended the introduction of five percent excise duty in the digital economy sector, a tax which was earlier proposed by the Minister of Finance. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami disclosed this in abuja during the inauguration of a committee that will...
Fifty years after a kidnapping during the 1972 Munich Olympics ended in bloodshed, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked the victims’ families for forgiveness. “I ask you, as the Head of State of this country and on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, for your forgiveness for the lack...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday inaugurated operational vehicles and other specialised equipment for effective search and rescue operations during disasters across the country. The Director-General of NEMA, Mr Mustapha Ahmed, in Abuja said that the equipment would be deployed across the zonal, territorial and operational offices...
A 45-year-old man, Yusuf Muhammad on Monday prayed a Sharia court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State to order his wife, Murjanatu Nasiru to pay him N1.6million in exchange for divorce. Muhammad made the request following Nasiru’s prayer for divorce by way of redemption (Khul’I). She had earlier promised...
Rep. Lawrence Ayeni (APC-Osun) says Pastor Enoch Adeboye has tried to settle the political rift between Osun Gov. Gboyega Oyetola and his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola, to no avail. Adeboye, who is the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Aregbesola, the incumbent Minister of Interior,...
A sixth corpse has been recovered from the rubbles of a seven-storey uncompleted building, which collapsed on Oba Idowu Oniru Street, Lekki in Lagos on Sunday. Emergency response agencies recovered two bodies from the site on Sunday and recovered three others earlier on Monday. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, South West...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said the recent visit of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, its 2023 Presidential Candidate to former President Goodluck Jonathan was a strategic move for national unity and cohesion. Mr Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary gave the explanation in a statement on Monday in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, has resigned from his position. The state Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Lagos. He said: “the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has accepted...
Reece James has signed a bumper new Chelsea deal worth at least £ 250,000 per week. The agreement for the 22-year-old is a six-year deal and will make James the highest-paid defender in Chelsea’s history. James said: ‘I am over the moon with my new contract and I’m thankful...
Ukraine will receive another 500 million euros (496.3 million dollars) in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees. The European Commission announced on Monday that the financial aid, some of which would also support Ukraine’s agricultural sector,...
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a 28- year-old teacher, Mohammed Algoni, to Kirikiri Correctional centre for allegedly sexually molesting his 11-year-old pupil through anus. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi, refused to listen to the defendant ‘s plea. She then ordered him to be remanded...
The Nigerian Breweries Plc. has expressed its determination to curb youth restiveness with the reintroduction of its Hi-Life Festival. A statement on Monday in Enugu by the Senior Brand Manager of Life Continental Lager Beer, Aishat Anaekwe, said that the competition had a prize tag of N50million. Anaekwe said...
More details have emerged on how an intelligence-led joint military operation killed top Commanders and terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, in the Bama and Sambisa axes of Borno State. Meanwhile, another terrorist commander has indicated his desire to surrender to the troops. Nigerian troops...
Britain’s Conservative party Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain’s deepest economic crisis in decades. The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a gruelling summer-long contest decided...