By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Kwara State Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq on Monday commissioned one hundred tricycles to 100 beneficiaries of the state initiated community intervention programme in partnership with Simba/TVS and SEAP microfinance institute. Speaking during the presentation at the Government House in Ilorin the state capital,...
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PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, (NEPC) has affirmed that there are various economic opportunities available in the rubber industry in Cross River State if well exploited. The Regional Coordinator of NEPC South South Regional Office, Mr Joe Itah, stated this while speaking on the topic:...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A political support group, Tinubu Vanguard, has said that the democracy credentials of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, qualify him to contest the Nigerian presidency in 2023. In a statement in Abuja, The group’s Director-General, Dr. Johnny Benjamin, urged Tinubu to...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, says the borrowing level for Nigeria is still at 23 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), adding that government borrowing is sensible and responsible. Ahmed said this while addressing newsmen on the recent rise in the...
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities has given the Federal Government of Nigeria till 31st of August (Tuesday) to reach out or it will activate the procedure of embarking on strike. The union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in an interview on Sunday. He revealed that the government...
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Monday expressed his displeasure over attempt at legalising the use of marijuana or Cannabis Dativa (Indian hemp) in the country. Ganduje expressed his feelings when the Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) retired Brig.- Gen. Buba Marwa, led top officials of...
The Frontiers for Peace and Unity (FPU), a pressure group, says the South South should be allowed to produce the nation’s president in 2023. Mrs Ikalama Owadiktorusinya, National Coordinator, FPU, made the call at the inauguration of the group’s national executives and its Rivers state executive in Port Harcourt...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Nasarawa – The Chairman, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig.- Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), said on Monday that the agency had arrested over 8,000 people from January to August, for alleged drug related offenses. Marwa made the disclosure during a Town Hall meeting in Badawa...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has published the list of 12 candidates for the Sept. 11, Isoko South 1 state constituency by-election in Delta. The commission disclosed this in a statement by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Monday in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA) led by its president, Mrs Salamatu Faruku Yahaya, has said the association would construct a block of six classroom with two offices to help encourage education of officers’ children at the Sokoto Giginya Barracks. Mrs Salamtu, who...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) has a Sept. 7 date to respond to a suit filed against him Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho). The Department of State Security Services (DSS) co-joined in the suit seeking the enforcement of Adeyemo’s fundamental rights has the same date to appear...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), says reorganisation of the agency is in line with the Federal Government’s aspirations for the oil and gas industry. According to DPR, the move is also to ensure delivery of its regulatory mandate. Mr Paul Osu, Head, Public Affairs, DPR, made this known...
A total of 48.5 billion dollars (about N19.98 trillion) in international transfer fees have been paid in the decade until 2020, football’s world governing body FIFA said on Monday. FIFA, in coming to this conclusion, analysed 133,225 cross-border transfers and loans between 2011 and 2020. Ten years ago, 2.85...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) zone 6, Usman Sule Gonna has charged officers and men of Zone 6 Headquarters Calabar to be security conscious, disciplined and professional in their approach to policing. He gave this charge in his maiden lecture at the Zonal...
Sen. Uba Sani has urged aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State to forgive whatever grievances they have against one another. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday in Kaduna, Sani said that this was necessary for the party to achieve victory in the forthcoming...
Botswana now expects economic growth of 9.7 per cent in 2021, compared with the 8.8 per cent forecast in February, helped by higher diamond sales and a recent rebasing of Gross 0omestic Product (GDP) accounts. The country’s Finance Minister Peggy Serame disclosed this in an interview with Reuters on...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has charged the Eurobel International limited, the firm handling the dredging of Asa River in the state, to deliver according to specifications and within the timeframe to end the perennial flooding in the capital city. The Governor spoke when...
Following increasing insecurity in Plateau, the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) on Monday warned residents against taking the law into their hands in the guise of self-defence. Maj. Ishaku Takwa, the Media Officer of the task force gave the warning in a statement issued in Jos. Takwa...
“NAFDAC is ever willing to strengthen and regularise the herbal medicine practice in conformity with its mandate of safeguarding public health”. The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it would clampdown on unethical and illegal advertisement of herbal medicines in Kaduna State. The State...
Sen. Tunde Ogbeha, a former Military Governor of the old Bendel and Akwa Ibom states, has donated cash and foodstuffs, worth millions of naira, and offered academic scholarships to some motherless children at the Ministry of Mercy (MOM) Orphanage in Lokoja, Kogi State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...