President Muhammadu Buhari has again expressed serious concern over the current security challenges facing some parts of the country and will stop at nothing to change the tide. The National Security Adviser to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, said the president made his feelings known when he summoned...
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The Chief Operating Officer (COO), Ibom Air, Mr George Uriesi, said domestic airlines lose at least N4.3 billion annually due to their inability to operate 24 hours flights daily to the airports of their choice. Uriesi made this known while speaking at the 26th Annual Conference of the League...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Government on Thursday said Nigerian subscribers would start paying 5% tax on every call, SMS, data and other telecommunication services. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, announced this during a stakeholders forum organized by the Nigeria Communication Commission...
The Nigerian Navy says it has handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), 70 out of 147 vessels arrested over illegal oil bunkering and crude oil theft. Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ogala, Director of Lesson Learnt, said this at the resumed investigative hearing of the House of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum on Thursday flagged off the closure and relocation of about 52,000 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their ancestral homes in Mafa, Dikwa, Konduga, Bama, Gwoza, Marte Areas of the state. The official closure of the remaining four IDPs camps...
An FCT High Court in Abuja on Thursday adjourned until Aug.10 and Aug. 11 the trial of suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and three others charged with alleged N109.5 billion fraud. Other defendants are Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. The...
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai recently eliminated no fewer than 20 suspected Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Nigeria’s North East region. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, made this known at the Bi-Weekly news conference...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – A total of 27 pipeline vandals have been arrested and petroleum products with a street value of over N2.5billion recovered by the Nigerian Military during its joint operation in the Niger Delta region between 14 and 28 July, 2022. According to the Director, Defence...
The minority caucus of the House of Representatives has joined its Senate counterpart to hand President Muhammadu Buhari a six-week ultimatum to fix insecurity or face impeachment in the National Assembly. Minority leader of the House of Reps, Ndudi Elumelu, revealed this after a closed door meeting of the...
The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, also sentenced Tanko to five years imprisonment for the four-count charges leveled against him. Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, earlier this year had vowed to sign the death sentence without further delay if given by the court. Until her death, Hanifa was a...
…As World Bank tasks FG on data protection No fewer than two hundred and fifty stakeholders, Wednesday, unanimously gave their nod to the steps towards enacting a principal Data Protection law for Nigeria. Rising from a two-day Policy Dialogue on Nigeria’s Data Protection law, held in Abuja, the participants...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A total of 184 beneficiaries of the NNPC/Shell Cradle-to-Career scholarship for secondary school students have been migrated to the SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years. The Shell’s Head of Corporate Relations for Nigeria, Igo Weli, who disclosed this in a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – No fewer than 560 residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s grants to vulnerable people in the territory. The distribution of the cash grant which was disbursed through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development...
9mobile has restated commitment to enabling growth of Nigerian businesses and fostering inter-sectoral collaboration to further boost economic development in Nigeria. Chief Financial Officer, 9mobile, Phillips Oki, who represented the CEO of 9mobile, Juergen Peschel, gave the assurance on Thursday when he led the company’s management team on a...
An ex-BBNaija housemate and creative personality, Elozonam Ogbulu, is set to have exclusive conversations with evicted BBNaija Level Up housemates on the first-ever BBNaija eviction vodcast. A statement from Info Digital Africa (ID Africa), PR consultant to the ongoing BBNaija reality TV show, said that the eviction vodcast was...
The Vice Chancellor, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, says lowering Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE) cut-off marks will create a level playing ground for students seeking admission. Ojediran made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ota....
Para Power lifter, Innocent Nnamdi and wrestler, Blessing Oborududu have been named captains for Team Nigeria at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The 2022 Commonwealth Games (Birmingham 2022) is scheduled to hold in Birmingham, England, from July 28 July to Aug. 8. The Team Nigeria captains were named...
Oando Plc, AA Rano, Sahara Energy Resources, Hyde have all denied involvement in fuel subsidy payments before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating subsidy regime. The oil companies said they only lifted crude oil and we’re not part of subsidy payment by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...
Okpanam community in Delta has reverted to ancestral spirits to avenge Sunday’s attack on the community in which three police officers were killed and some community vigilance members injured. The Ugo Ani of Okpanam, Dr Michael Ogbolu led chiefs, indigenes and other community members to the “Ishu Ani Okpam’’...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious in the face of Russia’s invasion, as he honoured a new holiday marking the country’s statehood. It was a troubled morning with missile terror, but Ukraine would not give up, Zelensky announced in Kiev. He congratulated...