Aside from the recently passed Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which took the country over seventeen years to pass, there is another Bill that, if passed, may help prioritize as extremely important the need to complete a process of socioeconomic rejuvenation of the coastal areas of the Niger Delta region...
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Nigerians have advised parents to teach their children and wards how to cook local foods as the delicacies are healthier and more nutritious than foreign meals. A cross section of Nigerians gave this advice in Abuja on Wednesday in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has commiserated with Juju maestro, King Sunny Ade, and the Lagos State Government over the passing Hon. Risikat Ajoke Adegeye. Wife of King Sunny Ade and former member of the Lagos House of Assembly, Hon. Adegeye died Tuesday...
Brazil’s health minister announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday in New York, where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly along with the country’s defiantly unvaccinated president, Jair Bolsonaro. The health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, tweeted that he would quarantine in the United States...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has confirmed Governor Babajide of Lagos State and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, as chairman and keynote speaker, respectively. at its fifth annual conference. A statement signed by GOCOP Publicity Secretary, Olumide...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – A new political pressure group, the Rescue Nigeria Project (RNP), has resolved to work towards influencing and ensuring Good Governance and Leadership selection process which recognizes Competence and Capacity at all levels. In a statement at the end of its National Caucus meeting in...
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on Tuesday said it has registered more than 245,000 Small and Medium Enterprises businesses free of charge. The Registrar-General, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday that it did this with the approval of the Federal Government....
Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has urged the people of Imo and all Nigerians to make peace their watchword as they relate with one another. The governor made the call in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, in Owerri on Wednesday in commemoration of...
The Police Command in Bauchi, says it has arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of 35-year-old woman farmer, Rifkatu Yohanna, in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of the state. The Spokesman of the command, SP Ahmed Wakili, confirmed the arrest on Wednesday in Bauchi. Wakil said yhat...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Emir of Gaya in Kano State, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdukkadir, has died at the age of 91. Alhaji Abbas Ibrahim-Gaya, the Chairman, Media, in the Emirate, announced this on Wednesday in Kano. Ibrahim-Gaya said that the Emir died after a brief illness, adding that...
Rep. Ndudi Elumelu, the minority leader of the House of Representatives has raised the alarm over continuous leaking roof in the National Assembly chamber, describing it as dangerous to lawmakers’ safety. Elumelu, who raised a point of order during plenary on Wednesday in Abuja, pointed out to the House...
His Excellency, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, for 15 testy months, has been shepherding the affairs of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as chairman, National Caretaker Committee. It would be recalled that on June 25, 2020, Governor Mai Mala Buni took over the administration of the party...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr Fatima Waziri – Azi, has called for the cooperation and support of the Italian Government in the renewed bid by the Agency to fish out those highly placed...
A businesswoman, Jessica Adaeze, has sued Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) over its alleged refusal to comply with a court order, directing it to unfreeze her bank account. Adaeze, through her lawyer, Friday Iburu, in a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed before Justice Anwuli Chikere of a Federal High Court,...
Mr Kayode Ojo, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state has urged party faithful to avoid anything that could truncate the Oct. 2, state congresses of the party. Ojo said this in a statement signed by his Director of Media, Alhaji Deji Ayelabowo on Wednesday...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that the all-commodity group import index grew marginally by 1.07 per cent between April and June. It said this on Wednesday in Abuja, in the “Commodity Price Indices and Terms of Trade for Quarter Two, 2021” published on its website. According...
Shots were fired at a car carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s principal aide on Wednesday, in what a senior official called an assassination attempt. More than 10 bullets hit the car near the village of Lesnyky, around 5 km(3 miles) outside the capital Kyiv, wounding the driver, a police...
A 15-year-old Junior Secondary School (JSS) II student, told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that her 23-year-old neighbour, Prosper Iloh, allegedly drugged her and raped her. The minor, who resides in Dakwa, Dei-dei, Abuja was led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel, Adama Musa. The defendant is being...
The Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr Kashifu Inuwa, has said that Nigeria is moving fast in its quest to develop a digital economy. He said this at a one-day roundtable organised by Civil Society Groups for Good Governance in Abuja on Wednesday. The theme of the...
Some senior Police retirees based in Edo have decried what they referred to as “poor retirement benefits” after their service years. The retirees, who were at the headquarters of the state’s Police Command in Benin, also called on the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force to yank them off...