By BABARA KALU, Akwa – Anambra State Government has reacted to the placement of the state Governor Willie Obiano on the watchlist by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC had issued letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) requesting the immigration to...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Gasau – Zamfara State Government has called on the Federal Government to resolve the alleged irregularities in the Conditional Cash Transfer programme in the state. The Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Fa’ika Ahmad made the call on Thursday during a news...
French Interior Ministry on Thursday confirmed the death of 27 migrants who died after their boat capsized in the English Channel. A spokesperson for the ministry said that the death toll of the tragedy, which was revised down from 31, was still preliminary. On Wednesday, French Interior Minister Gerald...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) said it has earmarked the sum of N1 billion each for the establishment of twelve additional Centres of Excellence (COEs) in tertiary institutions. It would be recalled that under the 2020 intervention, 12 TETFund Centers of Excellence were...
Sweden’s Prime Minister-elect Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday handed in her resignation hours after being appointed by parliament after her budget failed to pass and the junior Green Party quit the coalition government. While her stint was unexpectedly brief, Andersson made history by becoming the first woman elected to the...
Manchester City beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 on Wednesday but both clubs qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League, along with Real Madrid, Inter Milan, and Sporting Lisbon. Gabriel Jesus tapped in from Bernardo Silva’s deft knockdown on 76 minutes to settle an absorbing match at the Etihad...
Five people were killed and over a dozen injured in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a security official said, in the latest attack to hit the troubled country. “There was a car bomb blast… the death of five people was confirmed and...
A Junior High School boy, who fatally stabbed a fellow student in central Japan, said he had troubles with the victim and held grudges against him, local media reported Thursday. The alleged attacker, whose name had been withheld as he is a minor, told investigators that he bought a...
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has completed rehabilitation of two township roads in Ikorodu as part of its Federal Constituency projects in Lagos State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two road projects were awarded to LRB Global Investment Ltd, and JRB Construction Co. Ltd. at...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In his first day of ongoing commissioning tour of 23 projects in southern Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum has commissioned a newly mega-size Government Day Technical Secondary School sited in Wuyo, Bayo Local Government Area of Borno State. He also commissioned three other projects in...
Life is ensconced in different strokes. Penultimate weekend, when many of our country men and women were enmeshed in revelry, savouring delicious meals and sipping choice wines with their families and friends at various events, it was heat for our gallant soldiers tucked away in the theater of operations...
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from further investigating a former governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, on the issue of assets he declared with the Code of Conduct Bureau between 2007 and 2020. The case with suit...
The national carrier, Nigeria Air is expected to take off in April 2022, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has announced. This follows the approval of the outline business case for the establishment of the national carrier by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday. Sirika, who made...
An Indian man mistakenly declared dead after a road accident has been found still breathing in a hospital morgue freezer. Srikesh Kumar suffered critical injuries after a speeding motorbike hit him last week and was declared dead on arrival at a hospital in Moradabad, east of the capital New...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, says the plan of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is to be victorious at the polls. Governor Sule, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, said the party was treading with caution in...
Spotify, a music streaming service provider, has launched a self-serve advertising platform, Ad Studio, in Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The innovative advertising medium has been made available to even more artists around the globe. Christopher Li, Director of Digital Planning and Products at Live Nation and...
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday said that conducting elections in Nigeria was a tough task, urging media support against fake news that could cause confusion. Yakubu spoke at a Strategic Interactive Meeting with Online Publishers organised by INEC in collaboration with the Institute...
A new research by Standard Chartered has projected that global exports will almost double from US$ 17.4 trillion to US$ 29.7 trillion over the next decade. The report, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos, revealed the 13 markets that would drive much...
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said that Nigeria’s non-oil revenue grew to N1.15 trillion, representing 15.7 per cent above target rate in response to Federal Government’s efforts at diversifying the nation’s economy. Ahmed made this known virtually at the Institute of Directors (IoD)...
The Zamfara State Taskforce Committee on Compliance to Gov. Bello Matawalle’s Executive Order on insecurity has ordered the closure of a filling station and bakery in Gusau and Tsafe LGSs of the state. Chairmen of Committee, Abubakar Dauran, gave the order shortly after security forces arrested four suspects for...