Following the intervention of the Nigerian chapter of the International Press Institute, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the revocation of the operating licenses of 52 broadcast stations owing various sums in licensing fees. The NBC has now given the affected stations up to 6PM on Tuesday, August...
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By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Police Command has dissociated itself from a video on social media, regarding a protest by some policemen over non-payment of one year salary. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Ajayi Okasanmi debunked the report in a statement issued on Saturday in Ilorin,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Army has said about 242 soldiers in the North-East and other theatres have applied for voluntary discharge which is not as a result of alleged corruption, poor service conditions and low morale as purported in the media. Army spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Onyema...
The Minister of Defence, retired Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi, says the Armed Forces have increased their strength, reviewed training and order of battle to curtail security threats across the country. Magashi said this at the 15th International Security Conference and Award (ISCA) organised by the International Institute of Professional Security...
The acting Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Idris Jere, has given assurance that the NIS would continue to protect Nigerian borders to enhance peace and development. Jere gave the assurance in Dutse on Saturday after he paid a condolence visit to the family of a...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed says his administration has distributed economic strengthening items worth N1.35billion to 9,000 youths and women in 18 out of the 20 LGAs of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state government had previously distributed the economic strengthening items worth...
Thousands of people gathered at the Zulu royal palace in South Africa on Saturday for the coronation of a new king in the country’s richest and most influential traditional monarchy. Misuzulu Zulu, 47, is set to succeed his father, Goodwill Zwelithini, who died in March last year after 50...
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has pledged his commitment to sanitise the specialised services of professional service providers by improving the processing of visas, passports, marriages and citizenship applications. The Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, Mr Afonja Ajibola, made this known in a...
The acting Comptroller-General (CG) of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Idris Jere, has said plans are underway to recruit additional 5,000 personnel into the service. Jere, who stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in Dutse on Saturday, said the gesture was aimed at addressing manpower deficit in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman/ CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Professor Umar Garba Danbatta has called on Nigerians to explore opportunities in the Digital Economy to eradicate poverty in the country. Professor Danbatta made the call on Thursday while addressing the 9th Lagos Public Relations...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged the electorate to verify their information on the preliminary register of voters on display from Aug.15 to Aug.21. This is contained in a statement by the INEC Federal Capital Territory (FCT) office, tagged “Nationwide Display of Preliminary Register of Voters”, made...
No fewer than eight villages in Augie Local Government Area of Kebbi have been deserted due to attacks by bandits, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. The vilages are Zagi, Tungar Rafi, Tungar Tudu, Keke, Kwaido, Sabongarin Kwaido, Tungar Chichira and Tattazai. Residents of the villages moved...
Farmers in Nigeria have bemoaned the high cost of fertiliser and expressed concern that the situation is threatening food security in the country. The farmers who expressed their worries in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the South-South, said government withdrawal of subsidy had aggravated...
The Osun State Police Command has confirmed that the convoy of Mrs Kafayat Oyetola, wife of Osun Governor, was attacked by hoodlums on Friday at Owode in Ede. The command’s spokesman, SP Yemisi Opalola, who confirmed the attack in a statement issued on Saturday said one security personnel on...
It has been a little bit hard after the pandemic and Nigeria hasn’t found its feet yet. It’s even a lot more complicated with the constant rise in dollar and inflation which don’t seem to have any feasible solution yet. But despite all these, the Real Estate sector in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that security would be increased across the country to try to stamp out widespread oil theft, a week after a supertanker was detained off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. “We will not allow a few criminals to have unfettered access to the nation’s crude...
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is scaling up operations to support millions going hungry who “cannot wait” for assistance as the threat of famine looms in the Horn of Africa. The region is in the grip of a historic drought, brought on by four consecutive failed rains....
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday expressed outrage over a 34-year prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman, Ms Salma Al-Shehab charged with following and retweeting so-called dissidents and activists. Doctoral student Al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in jail, followed by a 34-year travel ban...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for countries to improve access to two lifesaving Ebola medicines, in its first guidelines on the viral disease, published on Friday. The recommendation follows review and analysis of clinical trials for the monoclonal antibodies mAb114 (known as Ansuvimab or Ebanga) and REGN-EB3...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a public alert on the decision of a U.S. company, Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC, to recall some of its confectionary products. NAFDAC gave the notification in a public alert with No.034/2022, signed by its Director-General,...