The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and civil society organisations on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The National Assembly has passed the bill and transmitted the document to President Buhari on November 19 for assent. While the Executive Director, Policy and...
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Veteran Actor, Adebayo Salami, popularly known as “Oga Bello”, on Monday said the death of Nigerian Comedian, Babatunde Omidina, fondly called “Baba Suwe”, has left a huge vacuum in the Nigerian Comedy industry. Salami, while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), paid tribute to late Omidina, describing...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has commended the military for the success achieved in the fight against insurgency in the country. Wike gave the commendation on Monday during a courtesy visit by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Amao, at Government House, Port Harcourt. Gov. Wike noted...
The National Action Committee, African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has emphasised the need to cascade down its activities to the subnational level with state governments playing a major role. Secretary of the committee, Mr Francis Anatogu, said this on Monday during a joint news conference with the Nigeria...
The Vice President of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ms. Finda Koroma has said the only successful way to fight terrorism within the region is to attack its root causes. Ms. Koroma said this at the inauguration of the Early Warning Study on the Spillover of Violent...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Operatives from the Niger State Police Command have arrested four suspected kidnappers and other suspects for rustling cattle in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Wasiu Abiodun, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Minna on Monday. DSP Abiodun, said...
By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – Yobe State Government has resolved to deduct 10 per cent of November basic salaries of its civil servants as their contributions to the current efforts to revive the education sector in the state. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji Muhammad Lamin,...
The Police Command in Ebonyi, on Monday rescued two newborn babies from suspected child traffickers. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Loveth Odah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki that the babies were rescued by a team of local vigilantes and Ebubeagu Security...
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has said that it would support 16 women cooperative societies in Niger with a N5.2 million grant to start agri-businesses. Dr Dikko Radda, the Director-General, SMEDAN, disclosed this in Minna, at the start of a one-week training for the...
Premium Times Books will on Tuesday, November 23, host a book presentation event to launch the Nigerian edition of “The Sokoto Caliphate”. Organisers say the event, scheduled for the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, will be chaired by the Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Nuhu Bamali. Several other Nigerian...
Nigeria is usually a drama platform and a centre of comic art. We need such to live long given the many challenges we face as a people such as insecurity, disunity and reckless use of power.Or how else can we describe a situation where an anti graft agency will...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Monday released the 2021 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) results. During a press briefing in Abuja, the Nigeria National Office of the examination body, Patrick Areghan, said this year’s exam recorded a better success than the previous...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved February 2022 for the conduct of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum and Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, announced this on Monday in Abuja. He briefed State House correspondents after a meeting with the President...
The President of the community court of Justice, ECOWAS, Edward Amoako Asante, has called for an upward review of the number of justices for the court, to enable it meet up its responsibilities. Giving an account of how the court had fared in the last 20 years, at a...
Nigeria’s Music star, David Adeleke a.k.a Davido, says he has redeemed his N50 million pledged as part of N200 million donations to orphanages in Nigeria to Wema Bank. Recalled that Davido had earlier announced that N200 million received from friends and colleagues would be donated to orphanages in Nigeria....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it is targeting 25,000 women and youth in Jigawa state who have no bank account to do so, in an ongoing five-day Digital Financial Inclusion drive. Mr Audu Amadu, the Head of Development Finance, Jigawa branch office, said this while fielding questions...
The Kano State Fire Service said fire had destroyed 41 temporary shops at Kasuwar Kurmi (Yan’ littafai) Market in Kano. This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Monday in Kano. “We received a distress from Malam...
The Cameroonian Government, through its representative from the Ministry of Public Service and Administration Reforms, is seeking to model Nigeria’s e-government success story. The representative said this in Abuja on Monday during a visit to Nigeria, to inspect the depth of e-government implementation, developed and implemented by the Korean...
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said Nigerian universities must be repositioned to take the lead in research and innovation, to improve their ranking globally and promote economic development. The TETFund Executive Secretary, Prof. Suleiman Elias-Bogoro, said this at the opening of a two-day workshop on ‘Requirements for Strengthening...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has increased registration fees for school candidates for West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from N13,950 to N18,000, beginning from 2022. WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, made this known while announcing the release of results of the 2021...