No fewer than 3,000 owners of Small and Medium scale businesses in Kebbi State would receive Federal Government’s post COVID-19 grants in order to enhance their business activities, says Abubakar Malami (SAN), Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.. A statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant...
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The Nigerian Investments Promotion Commission (NIPC) has said that its Single Window Investors Portal (SWIP) that aimed to facilitate business and investments in the country would be available by the first quarter of 2021. Mr Sabo Isiaku, Head of Corporate Services Division, NIPC, disclosed this on Monday, in Abuja,...
Kano State Government is to enrol 553 people living with HIV/AIDS to access free healthcare services, Aminu Bello-Sani, the Public Relations Officer, Kano State Agency for the Control of Aids (KSACA) disclosed in a statement on Monday, in Kano. According to him, the Executive Secretary of the state’s Contributory Healthcare...
Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham scored a late opportunistic double to secure a 3-0 home win for Chelsea over West Ham United in the English Premier League (EPL) on Monday. This was after Brazilian defender Thiago Silva had fired them in front with an early header. The result lifted Chelsea...
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Nuno Espirito Santo could face sanctions from the Premier League after saying the referee in his team’s 2-1 defeat at Burnley on Monday was not good enough for the top flight. The Portuguese manager took aim at referee Lee Mason, despite the official giving his side...
The Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG) says the Federal Government’s decision to reopen its land borders would help to reduce the harassment of Nigerians by Ghanaian traders, an official of the association has said. The President of NUTAG, Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, told the News Agency of...
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has registered 356 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, as at Dec.21, the Centre announced on its verified website on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that since the beginning of the outbreak in February, more than 893,590...
The National Task Force on National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) Registration met today, 21st December, 2020. The meeting was chaired by the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) with major stakeholders in the sector including Chairman-Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC);...
The Federal Government has extended the deadline issued to all telecommunications operators in the country to block all Subscriber Identification Modules (SIMs) without National Identification Number (NIN). This was contained in a statement on Monday by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. The statement titled, ‘Extension of...
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has urged the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Federal Ministry of National Planning and data resource centres in the education sector to commence the task of documenting theinterventions of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and other similar gestures with a view to...
Multinational Information Technology company, HP, has raised alarm that about 12 million products counterfeits and components have been seized by local authorities across Europe, Middle East and Africa in the last five years. Glenn Jones, Director, Global Anti-Counterfeit Programme at HP, revealed this in a statement on Monday in...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Anambra Command, has deployed no fewer than 2,146 personnel to monitor flash points during the Christmas in the state. Mr Edwin Okadigbo, the state’s Public Relations Officer of NSCDC disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Monday. Okadigbo, who said...
The United Nations (UN) has pledged support for Gombe Government’s 10-year (2021-2030) Development Plan. Hajiya Amina Mohammed, UN’s Deputy Secretary-General, disclosed this while delivering her remarks virtually in Gombe on Monday. Mohammed made the remark on the occasion of the Final Round-off for Stakeholders on the Gombe State 10-Year Development...
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate an alleged plan by the Federal Government to lease some government assets in the country.This was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Toby Okechukwu (PDP-Enugu) at plenary on Monday in Abuja. Moving the motion, Okechukwu said that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the National Librarian, Prof. Lenrie Aina on his 70th birthday, which falls on Dec. 22. The President, in a congratulatory statement issued by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina in Abuja on Monday, commended Aina for dedicating more than 40 years of training, research...
A cross-section of Owerri residents has expressed mixed reactions to Gov. Hope Uzodinma’s order for the closure of the state Secretariat in the wake of rising cases of COVID-19 in Imo.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor in a statewide broadcast announced new measures, including ordering...
The Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ONICCIMA) in Anambra State has expressed concern over the increasing menace of touts, hoodlums and illegal toll collectors within Onitsha and its environs. The President of ONICCIMA, Mr Chris Ukachukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has disclosed that 11,487 candidates passed its annual Professional Qualifying Examination conducted across the country. Registrar/Chief Executive of TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, who disclosed made this known on Friday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the achievements...
An environment Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Urban Tree Revival Initiative (UTRI) and the Ondo State Ministry of Natural Resources are collaborating restoring forests and conserving nature in the state. Founder of the NGO, Ms Omobola Eko in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday,...