As widely expected Ghana’s public debt has now passed the generally accepted sustainability threshold of 70 percent of Gross Domestic Product, the GHc273.8 billion in total debt by the end of September translating to 71.0 percent of GDP. This is up from GHc209.1 million a year previously by which...
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By JOHN ONAH (Abuja) and SADIQ ABUBAKAR (Maiduguri) – There were conflicting reports on Sunday of an alleged Boko Haram Terrorists’ attack on the convoy of Borno state governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum Zulum with some soldiers and two others said to have been killed. According to the first...
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 155 new infections of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC made this known on its verified website on Sunday. The Public health Agency said that the figure brings the total number of cases in the country...
From ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has constructed two water projects in two communities in Bauchi metropolis. The Special Assistant to Pastor EA Adeboye, the General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Jimi Ajibade,commissioned the two projects sited in Wuntin Dada and Kafin Tafawa...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Nigeria’s leading deep-water energy company, The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) has donated a state-of-the-art Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre to the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUTECH). The gesture is part of the NNPC/SNEPCo ICT support programme launched in...
The Minster of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has directed Julius Berger, the contractor handling section one rehabilitation/reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to speed up construction ahead of the Yuletide. Fashola while inspecting the highway on Saturday, told the Julius Berger team after taking their project presentations to...
The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Sidie Tunis, has said that there is a urgent need to build closer relationship between the sub-regional Parliament and the Parliaments in Member States. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lomé, Tunis said that such relationship was...
Dancehall artiste, Samini, has urged his colleagues in the creative arts industry to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to make the sector a lucrative one. According to him, the NPP intends to strengthen the creative arts industry by putting in place policies that will be of great benefit to...
Polls opened in Burkina Faso on Sunday for a presidential election dominated by jihadist violence, which has cost over 2,000 lives this year and will prevent voting in hundreds of villages. President Roch Kaboré is seeking a second five-year term, campaigning on achievements including free healthcare for children under...
Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie shared a video on his official Instagram page and it showed him talking about the coronavirus disease and how it relates to the sins of the world. According to the actor, God knows about the disease as it wouldn’t have gone around the world...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, has declared that the state now has the opportunity to restore the lost glory of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso. The governor, who stated this following the termination of the joint ownership of the university...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to to cut cost of governance, not public services in the face of the second economic recession which Nigeria has entered within the last five years. Media reports during the week, indicated that...
Nigeria recorded 246 fresh cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Saturday, bringing the total to 66,228 since the first case was confirmed on February 27, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said. The information contained in its verified website, said that one patient was confirmed dead, pushing the...
From ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – *** Nine suspected armed robbers also arrested Twenty suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack on a vigilante committee in which six members sustained varying degrees of injuries. The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil disclosed this in a...
Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brigadier -General Ahmed Taiwo, has said that he was unaware that the Nigerian Army Headquarters had described the shootings at the Lekki Tollgate as “fake news” on Twitter. Taiwo made the disclosure on Saturday while being cross-examined at...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Kaduna, earlier today hosted the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, where he discussed a wide range of issues affecting the telecommunications industry. Danbatta appeared on “Hannu da yawa,” a popular...
The Federal Government has agreed to pay the salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) using a different mode of payment other than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this while addressing newsmen at...
Yesterday, the GMD @NNPCgroup Mallam @MKKyari held a media parley with energy journalists under the auspices of the National Association of Energy Correspondents (NAEC) in Abuja.The GMD spoke on wide-ranging issues and developments within the @NNPCgroup and the larger Oil & Gas Industry. Excerpts: GMD @MKKyari: “We went ahead...
It is the nation’s second recession since 2016, and the worst economic decline in almost four decades. The Nigerian economy has slipped into its second recession in five years as the gross domestic product contracted for the second consecutive quarter. The National Bureau of Statistics announced Saturday the nation’s...
BY JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Osun and Oyo states have agreed to share the asset of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, thereby ending the funding disagreement among the two states. Briefing Newsmen on the resolution of the lingering ownership crisis in the institution in Abuja on...