Rep. Samuel Onuigbo (PDP-Abia) on Thursday defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) at the floor of the House. Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House, announced his defection during Thursday’s plenary, saying that Onuigbo left PDP because of crisis in the party. Gbajabiamila also said that the lawmaker...
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Following the abduction of students at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, Gov. Samuel Ortom has ordered the closure of all boarding schools in Benue State. Ortom, who announced the decision on Thursday when he visited the Maximum Security Custodian Centre (MSCC) in Makurdi, condemned the abduction of...
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) on Thursday trained no fewer than 70 women entrepreneurs in Enugu on product packaging and labelling of goods for the international market.The South East regional coordinator of the NEPC, Mr Arnold Jackson, said that the training was in line with the women development...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday distributed relief materials to 400 housholds affected by flood in Igabi Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. The Director-General of NEMA, AVM Mohammed Muhammad, represented by Mr Imam Garki, North West Zonal Coordinator of the agency, said the relief materials consisted...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Area Command, says it has generated more than N21 billion revenue this year. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Suleiman Lapa-Umar, said this at a news conference on Thursday in Kano. Umar said the service generated N21.018 billion revenue between January to date, adding...
The Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), on Thursday, commended the Federal Government’s decision to immediately reopen major land borders in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Dec. 16, approved the reopening of four major land borders.The borders were Seme border...
Three persons, who allegedly forged a signature and attempted to steal an Ecobank customer’s two million naira, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The defendants are a female student, Precious Ogah, 18; a male student, Hassan Adamu, 19, and a businesswomen, Theresa Christopher, 34. They were charged...
The Kaduna State Ministry of Human Services and Social Development and the House of Assembly have engaged themselves in a tango over the ministry’s capital budget for 2021. While the ministry claims that the House removed votes for its capital projects in the approved 2021 budget, the legislature states...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, presided over a virtual meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC). The meeting was the seventh virtual meeting as the nation complies with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) safety protocols on the COVID-19 pandemic. Governors joined the...
Airtel Nigeria, a leading telecommunications services provider, says it targets feeding 5,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) across five camps in the country. According to it, this is part of its activities to herald the Airtel 2020 Edition of “5 Days of Love” Yuletide initiative. Mr Segun Ogunsanya, the Managing...
A government decision requiring visitors to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to prove they are novel coronavirus-free has prompted more than 133,000 flight cancellations. The Chairman of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association, Mr Hariyadi Sukamdani, gave the figure on Thursday. Governor of Bali had issued a directive that...
The Police Command in Katsina State says it has rescued 29 persons suspected to be victims of human trafficking. This is contained in a statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah, and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Katsina. Isah said that the victims were...
Kenya ranked top within the region in digital growth and demand, according to the latest Digital Intelligence Index payments firm Mastercard and the Fletcher School at Tufts University. In the survey titled Digital Intelligence Index, Kenya is followed by Rwanda and Tanzania. Together, the three countries are categorised as...
China will invite more scientists around the world to join in moon research in a bid to achieve more scientific results, China National Space Administration (CNSA) has said. The Vice Administrator of the CNSA, Wu Yanhua, said on Thursday at a news conference in Bejing that China would solicit...
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, sentenced a driver, Mohammed Yunusa, 33, to four-month jail for cheating. Yunusa, a resident of Ungwan Sarki Kaduna State, was charged with criminal breach of trust and cheating his friend, Haruna Hamza, to the tune of N240,000. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced...
Facebook Inc accused rival Apple Inc of engaging in anticompetitive practices on Wednesday, firing another shot in a months long standoff between the two tech giants over Apple’s planned privacy changes for iOS14. “Apple is behaving anticompetitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom...
The Delta Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says there will be no automatic ticket for candidates seeking election in the March 2021 local councils poll. The state PDP Publicity Secretary, Dr Ifeanyi Osuoza, said this in a statement on Thursday in Asaba. Osuoza was reacting to rumours that...
The remains of DR Congo’s former Prime Minister Patrice Emery Lumumba will be repatriated from Belgium, President Félix Tshisekedi has announced. In a national address to the country in front of Parliament on Monday, he said the national hero will be given an appropriate burial. “In June 2021, on...
By, Sadiq Abubakar, Maiduguri A Non Governmental Organization (LAFIYA PROGRAM), a UKAID organization, has organized a two day workshop training on, “The Role of Communication In COVID-19 Pandemic” from Wednesday 16th to Thursday, 17th December, 2020 at ARMANI Events Center , Off Damboa Road, Maiduguri. In his opening remark,...
Sokoto State Government has ordered the immediate closure of 16 boarding schools along its borderlines. A statement on Thursday said the decision was reached at the state’s 17th security council meeting held at the government house. It said the decision also followed the brief received by the Council from...