The Nigerian Export promotion Council (NEPC) has advised Nigerians to focus more on non-oil export for the country’s economic survival. The Executive Director of NEPC, Dr Ezra Yakusak, gave the charge in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday while on a visit to the council’s...
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says prices of selected food items increased in July. It made the declaration in its Selected Food Prices Watch Report for July 2022 released in Abuja on Monday. The NBS stated that the average price of 1kg of white beans rose by 23.22...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a water tank from a scaffold has fell and killed two persons at Ladi Lak, Bariga, Lagos State on Sunday night. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South West NEMA, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in...
In recent decades, Nigeria’s economy can best be described as mono-cultural as it is largely run from foreign exchange from the oil sector. However, this source of income has become unpredictable due to a number of reason that disrupt the market. Some of these factors include conflicts in oil...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudy and thundery weather activities from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja predicted cloudy atmosphere on Monday over the northern region with prospects of thunderstorms over parts of Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe and Kaduna...
Scores of ISWAP terrorists have been killed by Nigerian Air Force, NAF, military jets at the enclave of Fiya Ba Yuram, in Sambisa Forest, over the weekend. PRNigeria gathered that Fiya Ba Yuram, a notorious terrorist, is the current Leader of ISWAP at Sambisa forest. He took over the...
“Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner” – Sri Chinmoy Recently, the Federal Government renewed a multi-million dollar pipeline surveillance contract with a former militant leader and commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. It was gathered that the government...
The death toll from a devastating 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has climbed to 21, Health Minister Ali Haji Adan said Sunday, as anxious citizens awaited news of missing relatives. Emergency workers have been trying to clear the debris of a gun...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Walid Jibrin, says it is unfair to have both its presidential candidate and the national chairman from the northern region of the country. Jibrin stated this while featuring as a guest on Channels Television Sunday Politics. The presidential candidate of...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri – No fewer than four Catholic Reverend Sisters have been abducted by unknown gunmen on Sunday in Imo State. It was gathered that the nuns were abducted along Okigwe-Enugu Road which has become notorious for criminals. The Secretary General of Sisters Of Jesus The Saviour...
…… demands for supporting documents By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has commenced investigation into how the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) engaged in extra budgetary expenditure of N1.19 billion in the 2018 and 2019 financial years. Accordingly to a report from...
a. From Obituary to Omatseuary Nothing in his entire being could have convinced him that the backlash would be so ferocious. Like his employer Ahmed Bola Tinubu and his Mu-Mu ticket misadventure, no babalawo would have dissuaded Sam Omatseye, renowned columnist and brilliant journalist, from penning and publishing that...
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, inaugurated a 16-member Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC), with Alhaji Aliko Dangote as Chairman. The president believed that the successful implementation of the Council’s agenda and savings from estimated economic burden of the disease would save Nigeria about N687 billion...
Champions Bayern Munich demolished hosts VfL Bochum 7-0 on Sunday, with new signing Sadio Mane scoring twice, to maintain their perfect start to the season. The Bavarians are two points clear at the top with nine points from three league games. They have now scored a league-record 15 goals...
Two housemates of the ongoing television reality show, Big Brother Naija have been evicted from the show. Kess and Pharmsavi’s eviction was announced by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, the host of the show, during the Sunday live eviction show. Pharmsavi garnered 17.95 per cent votes while Kess got 11.10 per cent...
The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has lauded the National Economic Council (NEC) for endorsing the 750million dollars World Bank-backed State Action on Business Enabling Reforms (SABER) programme. This was made known in a statement by Dr Jumoke Oduwole, Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing...
Quickfire goals by Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva helped Manchester City recover from two goals down to draw 3-3 with Newcastle United in a rip-roaring Premier League clash on Sunday. Neither side had conceded a goal in the league this season but Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring for champions...
The Commissioner of Police in Bauchi State, Mr Umar Sanda says the command has arrested a retired armourer as it expand investigation into claims by former Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara of threats to his life. Sanda told journalists on Sunday in Bauchi that the arrest of the...
First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. has announced plans for the fifth edition of its Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Week. The bank’s Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney, said this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos. The statement said that the event slated for Aug....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – The Nigeria Army Headquarters, Sector 2 Joint Task Force North East Operation Hadin Kai, has commenced investigation to unravel the identity of the soldiers who allegedly murdered an Islamic scholar in Yobe. Recalled that the police had arrested two soldiers over the murder of...