The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the date for the 2023 general elections in the country. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement on Wednesday during a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) Bill 2021, organized by the Senate Committee on INEC....
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has called on political elites to rise up and speak the truth against forces of division in order to preserve the unity of the country. VP Osinbanjo gave the charge on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with All Progressives Congress (APC)...
By OOREOFEOLUWA KALEJAIYE, Lagos- Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited has kicked off its first Automated Trading System (ATS) Certificate Training for stockbrokers in 2021, with a focus on capacity building beyond equities. This makes the second cohort under this new remote framework since 2020, consisting 78 registered participants who would...
The police authority.in Benue State, has said the three abducted students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) have regained freedom . Recalled that three students were kidnapped last Saturday night at about 10:20 pm on the campus while studying at the Engineering Department close to the theater...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, passed for second reading, a bill to create special seats for women in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly, for more inclusion of women in governance. The Bill proposed thirty seven additional seats at the Senate, fifty four seats at the...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Imaan Sulaiman Ibrahim, has called on regional stakeholders across Africa to partner with the Agency in its renewed efforts to scale up sensitization and awareness campaign against irregular migration and...
The House of Representatives have asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately suspend the recapitalisation of Microfinance Banks (MFBs). This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Saidu Abdullahi ( APC-Niger) on the floor of the House on Wednesday in Abuja. Moving the motion, Abdullahi said that out...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Administration has disbursed a total sum of N4,180,797,272.22 billion to the six Area Councils in the FCT and other stakeholders as its share of statutory allocation for the month of March 2021, FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani...
BY JOHN ONAH, Abuja A Chieftain of the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Kassim Afegbua said he stood by his earlier petition to Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent and Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the misappropriation of...
First Bank of Nigeria Ltd., has announced the appointment of Mr Gbenga Shobo, currently the deputy Managing Director (DMD), as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer designate of the bank. The bank’s Chairman, Mrs Ibukun Awosika, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Mrs Bose Ogulu, Mother of Grammy award winner Burna Boy, has been nominated by Billboard as one of its 2021 “International Power Players”. Bose is the talent manager and co-founder, Spaceship Collective which represents Afrobeats superstar and Grammy award winner Burna Boy as well as Buju. Bose Ogulu and...
Wife of Niger Governor, Dr Amina Bello, has commiserated with the victims of armed bandit attacks on Shiroro, Munya and other communities in the state. Bello, in a statement by her Press Secretary, Hajiya Rabi Bello, in Minna on Wednesday, said the activities of the bandits had thrown thousands...
Somalian President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, on Wednesday urged a return to election negotiations and appeared to drop a bid to extend his term by two years amid clashes between supporters of different political factions. Farmajo’s term was meant to end on Feb. 8, but the East African nation failed...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello, with cocaine weighing 1.1 kilogramme, which has a street value of N264million in Abuja. Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured that the state government would continue to adhere to the relevant section of the 1999 constitution on judicial autonomy. Governor Obaseki gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by executive members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Edo State chapter...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra on Tuesday evening arrested a suspected human trafficker and rescued five suspected victims. The corps’s Head of Operations in the state, Mr Anthony Ogbodo, told newsmen in Awka on Wednesday that the suspect, a 36-year-old driver, was arrested on Onitsha-Awka Expressway....
Operatives of the Anti-kidnapping Unit of Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old man, who allegedly specialises in fabricating and selling locally-made guns. In a statement on Wednesday in Yenagoa, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Asinmin Butswait, said that the suspected gunrunner belonged to the...
At least five people died Tuesday during banned protests against Chad’s new military junta, with its leader pledging national dialogue as the generals take charge following the shock battlefield death of his father and veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno. Deby’s 37-year-old son Mahamat, who heads the so-called Transitional Military...
Four patients died early on Wednesday after a fire broke out at a private hospital in India’s western state of Maharashtra, police said. This is the fourth accident involving hospitals in recent weeks in Maharasthra, the state worst-hit by COVID-19 in India. Twenty-two patients were at the hospital in the...
The Cross River Government says plans are ongoing to develop a state specific policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR). The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Betta Edu, disclosed this in Calabar on Wednesday during a stakeholders meeting on the Domestication of Cross River SRHR Policy. The meeting...