The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it generated the sum of N1.5 trillion for the year 2020. The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known on Wednesday, in a statement in Abuja, leaving smugglers, some of whose contraband goods were impounded dazed. Attah said the amount...
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No fewer than 366 police recruits known as Special Constabularies on Thursday completed eight-week intensive training for the community policing initiative. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu had in 2020 inaugurated the initiative aimed to bring policing closer to the people. Spokesman...
The Lagos State Government has indicated a monthly target of N60.318 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to fund the 2021 budget. Speaking during a media briefing on the Analysis of the Year 2021 Budget at Alausa, Ikeja, the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Sam Egube, said that...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja charged National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately in the realisation of the government objective of lifting 100million Nigerians out of poverty. Speaking when he received members of the newly established body at the...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has cautioned all the area councils against giving approval for land in any part of the territory without the approval of the FCT Minister, Mallam Mohammed Bello. Director of Development Control Department, Mukhtar Galadima, gave the warning on Thursday in Abuja against the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State at the State House, Abuja. Addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, the governor said that he updated the president on the progress so far made in the ongoing reconstruction...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State first 2021 state executive council meeting has on Wednesday approved N6 billion for the execution of about 18 capital projects and programmes including security support across the state. Commissioner of Information, Baba Kura Abba Jato disclosed this to newsmen at the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over 2.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent. The UN health agency gave the update on its regional official Twitter on Thursday. WHO stated on its dashboard that there were over 2.9...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of chairman and members for the newly established Borno State Career Guidance and Counseling Commission (BSCGCC). The Secretary to the state government, (SSG), Alhaji Usman Jidda Shuwa announced this in a statement stating...
Adamawa has recorded 50 new COVID-19 infections, an official has said.Dr Bashir Ahmad, the chairman of the state COVID-19 Committee said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Thursday.Ahmad, also the Secretary to the State Government, said that the 50 cases were confirmed...
Some residents of Calabar, in Cross River on Thursday appealed to the Federal Government to create more National Identity Card registration centres in the state.The residents who were seen in large numbers at the office of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) office in Calabar made the call in ...
A construction expert, Mr Temitope Runsewe, says construction industry will be a significant growth driver for the Nigeria’s economy in 2021. Runsewe, Managing Director, Dutum Construction Company Ltd., made the assertion on Thursday at the “2021 Nigeria Real Estate Market Outlook” meeting in Lagos. He said that with the...
The US Congress has certified Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, hours after Trump supporters stormed the building in an attack that saw four people die. Lawmakers resumed the session after police managed to remove the mob, which had been encouraged by President Trump in a bid to...
It is reasonable to argue that ‘history is an unending dialogue between the present and the past through a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts’. Likewise, the year 2020, a year ‘garnished’ with controversies and other forms of ups and downs, may have come and...
Many of the past and present leaders in Nigeria at all levels or tiers and Arms of Government in our Presidential system, do not seem to understand, or do not at all care, whether or not they understand, what, really, the governance of a people is all about, and...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of eight persons in another motor accident in Kogi The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the casualty figure brings to 22, the number of people that lost their lives in road accidents in the state on Wednesday....
The health system and health workers in Nigeria are under incredible strain, as more and more very ill patient are now presenting themselves to the hospitals. Dr Adedamola Dada, the Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Ebute Meta, Lagos, made the assertion in Lagos on Wednesday,. He spoke while...
Vice President Mike Pence says the violence must end after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. “The violence and destruction taking place at the U.S. Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now,” he tweeted. “Anyone involved must respect Law Enforcement officers and immediately leave the...
U.S. President Donald Trump told his supporters “to go home now” hours after they stormed the U.S. Capitol. “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us,” Trump said in a one-minute video posted on social media. “But you have to go home...