Namibia is set to increase fuel prices by 70 Namibia cents (0.04 U.S. dollar) per liter from Dec. 1 due to a hike of global oil prices, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) announced Friday. The price of gasoline at the pump in Walvis Bay will become 16.65...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has met with the Danish Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Sune Krogstrup, on the reported killing of pirates in the Gulf of Guinea by a Danish frigate. The meeting, which...
By Joy Adara, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has expressed its commitment to reach all categories of telecom consumers, with the launch yesterday in Benin, of a consumer-centric outreach programme tagged, “Shine your eyes, no fall mugu”, which literally translates to, “Be alert, Don’t be a victim...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted a Handball Veteran Chief Benjamin Ewaoche Obe (the Ojemeri 1 of Ojira) leave to challenge the refusal of the President of the Handball Federation of Nigeria (HFN) Mr. Sam Ocheho and the Secretary General of...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has assured the business community of Federal Government’s unrelenting efforts to restore the country to a path of economic growth. VP Osinbajo said the target was to make the growth rate higher than population growth rate. He gave the assurance on Friday at the 2021 Presidential...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gasau – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has expressed optimism that the Federal government’s proposed legal framework on mining would end banditry in the state. Governor Matawalle in a statement signed on Friday by Malam Yusuf Idris, his Director-General Media Public Enlightenment and Communication, commended President...
Nigeria’s D’Tigers on Friday opened their 2023 FIBA World Cup qualifier campaign with a defeat to Cape Verde. The 2015 African champions fell 71-79 to Cape Verde on Friday at the Benguela, Pavilhão Multiusos Acácias Rubras in Angola. The Nigerian men’s basketball team started the game on a high...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed Friday to “bury the enemy” in his first message from the battlefront, state media said, after he announced plans to lead a counter-offensive against Tigrayan rebels. As the rebels report major territorial gains, claiming this week to have seized a town just 220...
Nigeria as a country is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse federation, which consists of 36 autonomous states and the Federal Capital Territory. Apart from this indispensable fact, it is also religiously diverse but the two most prominent religions practiced are the Islamic religion and the Christianity religion. As rightly...
For 11 years, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has partnered with Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN) to host its annual flagship event; the National Company of the Year competition (NCOY), which convenes winners of the JA Company Regional Competitions across Nigeria to...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja- The National Population Commission (NPC) Federal Commissioner Kogi, Prof Jimoh Habibat-Isah has warned the Commission’s staffers that they could not afford to fail the country in the 2022 national population census. Prof. Habibat-Isah gave the warning on Friday in Lokoja at the opening of a...
Brigadier-General Zirkushu Dzarma and four other soldiers were buried in Yola, Adamawa state on November 26, 2021. The burial service of Brigadier-General Zirkushu Dzarma and four other soldiers who died fighting against Boko Haram terrorists was held on Friday at the Saint Stephen’s Protestant Church in Yola, Adamawa State....
The Igbinedion University, Okada, has secured a N500 million Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) facility to resuscitate and expand its existing oil palm plantation. The university’s Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, made this known on Friday in Okada, Edo, in his address at the 19th Convocation ceremony of the...
Sen. Biodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti) has said that women account for about 50 per cent of the country’s population but lack adequate representation in elective positions. She stated this after receiving the “Women in Africa Award” by Africa Leading Women Conference, on Friday in Abuja. Olujimi, who represents Ekiti South...
The Confederation of African Football on Friday gave its support to the “decision of the FIFA Congress to conduct a feasibility study” for a World Cup every two years. CAF is the first confederation to officially and publicly approve the controversial plan to hold a World Cup every two...
By EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna – Consequent upon the apparent failure to achieve the needed strategic maneuvers to bring the worsening insecurity in Kaduna State under control, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has directed telecoms service providers to restore services to areas under restriction in the state with immediate effect. Commissioner for...
The Federal High Court Abuja has proscribed bandit groups as terrorists. In a ruling delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Friday, the court specifically held that activities of Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups, constitute acts of terrorism. The ruling followed an ex parte motion the Federal Government...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the final forfeiture order on the $40 million worth of jewellery seized from the premises of the former Minister for Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Festus Obande, who read the judgment on Friday, held that there was no substance in Alison-Madueke’s...
As a way of tackling the problem of growing youth unemployment in Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on has launched the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES) in Abuja. The apex bank also presented cheques of N5million each to six pioneer beneficiaries of the scheme to help boost...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has backed the Federal Government’s plan to remove subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol by 2021. IPMAN’s President, Mr Chinedu Okoronkwo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that the Petroleum Industry Act...