By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos + Rescue workers have recovered two more bodies from the site of the collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos State. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos, Gbenga Omotoso, who confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday disclosed that the death toll from the...
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The Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling Plan) request in the sum of $16,230,077,718, and €1,020,000,000. Also approved by the upper chamber was a grant component of $125 million. The loans are to be funded by the World Bank, China Exim Bank, industrial, and commercial...
President Muhammadu Buhari says outlook on Nigerian economy remains bright, with sustained investments in infrastructure, particularly ICT, that favour global businesses and a friendly regulatory environment that supports Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). The president, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, stated this in a keynote...
A former Managing Director of an aviation fueling company, Star Orient Nig. Ltd., Dare Osamo, and a lawyer, Bisola Olore, were on Wednesday arraigned in Ikeja for alleged N1.6 billion fraud. The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) filed an 11-count fraud charge against the duo before an...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr Saleh Dada has paraded four suspected bandits amongst whom one admitted to be an informant. Those paraded include – one Sani Ibrahim who is being accused of sodomizing 12 minors...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has pledged to improve on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the State to enable it to settle some of its financial obligations. Governor Ortom made the pledge on Wednesday in Makurdi while interacting with newsmen. He said what came to the state from...
Somali National Army (SNA) on Wednesday killed nine al-Shabab terrorists during the ongoing security operation in Awdhigle district in the southern part of the country. The SNA commanders said the troops which have intensified the onslaught against the extremist group destroyed the militants’ key hideout at Shamgare and Raqeyle...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a 2021-2025 National Development Plan with an investment size of N348.7 trillion. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this after the virtual meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday. Mrs Ahmed noted that the five-year plan...
The wife of late Biafran leader, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has lauded the Anambra people for keeping faith with her husband’s legacy by voting for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) at the just concluded governorship election in the state. Bianca, who had on the eve of the election invoked...
No fewer than 70 drivers working for the United Nations and international aid organisations were detained in northern Ethiopia, a UN spokesperson confirmed to dpa on Wednesday. The drivers were apprehended on Nov. 3, in the city of Semera in the Afar Region, the official said, adding that the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The number of children with disabilities globally is estimated at nearly 240 million, according to a UNICEF report released on Tuesday. The new estimate for the number of children with disabilities is higher than previous estimates, and is based on a more meaningful and...
The Borno Committee on the Resettlement of Displaced Persons to their ancestral homes has distributed food items and cash to 8,640 households in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of the committee, Mr Kaka- Shehu Lawan, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, disclosed this while addressing...
The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, has said his ministry is fine tuning modalities for Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to mobilize funding for the Badagry Expressway project. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that the highway would henceforth...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for winning the gubernatorial election in Anambra. The president in a statement by his media aide, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja also praised the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Malam Mamman Daura as he marks his 82nd birthday on November 10. The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja. In the message to his uncle...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has congratulated Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on his victory at the November 6, 2021, Anambra State governorship election. Governor Ortom’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement on Wednesday by Benue’s Chief...
The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization held on 9 November the 2nd High-Level Consultations with the CEOs of leading COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing companies. At the meeting, all participants agreed on the urgency of delivering more vaccine doses to...
U.S. tech giant Google on Wednesday will know the outcome of an appeal against a massive EU competition fined for squeezing rival shopping services on its search engine at the bloc’s second highest court. After years of investigation, the EU executive branch, which acts as the bloc’s competition watchdog,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with President Mohammed Bazoum of Niger Republic over the death of 25 school children during a classroom fire outbreak in the Maradi region of the country. The victims were aged between five and six years. President Buhari’s condolence message...
The Federal Government told a Federal High Court, Abuja that a team of lawyers of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on a Wednesday, staged a walkout before the trial opened. Counsel to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Abubakar, told Justice Binta...