…pledges collaboration with ICAN on accountability in financial dealings Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Friday that the state has concluded all arrangements to inaugurate the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency. The governor, who stated this while playing host to the 56th President of the Institute of Chartered...
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Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday unveiled Nigeria’s first locally-assembled full electric car, aimed at reducing pressure on use of petroleum. The Hyundai Kona car, manufactured by Stallion Group is 100 per cent electric and comes with zero emission, 482km driving range, and can be charged both...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, assented to the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 2020. It repeals the extant Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 1991 as amended. According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday recorded its first loss for the week, dropping by 0.86 per cent due to profit taking. Specifically, the market capitalisation lost N159 billion or 0.86 per cent to close at N18.308 trillion compared with N18.467 trillion posted on Thursday. Also, the All-Share...
The Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association (NAOWA), 7 Division chapter has awarded scholarship to ten children of soldiers who died in the ongoing fight against insurgency in Borno. Hajiya Halima Yahaya, Chairperson of the association, said on Friday in Maiduguri while inaugurating a block of three classrooms constructed and...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi A canoe carrying 23 farmers to the farm on Thursday capsized on River Buji in Itas Gadau local government area of Bauchi State, killing 18 people.The Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, disclosed this in a statement made...
Governor Godwin Obaseki took oath of office for his second term as governor of Edo State on Thursday, the highpoint of a high-stakes election he won about two months ago. The Chief Judge of Edo, Mrs Esther Edigin, administered the oath on the governor and the Deputy Governor, Mr...
Corps Commander Selina Williams, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Taraba on Friday said the state recorded 23 deaths from 121 road crashes in the third quarter of 2020. This is contained in a statement signed by Assistant Route Commander Okwodowa Paul, the Command’s Public Education...
Cleen Foundation, an NGO, and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Kaduna State, have inaugurated a resource centre to host soft and hard copies of judgments on corruption cases in the state to facilitate their access by legal practitioners. Dr Benson Olugbuo, the Executive Director of the organization, who disclosed...
The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, one of the downstream subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Friday, hiked the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol, by N7.50 per litre to N155.17 per litre from N147.67 per litre previously. In a memo from the...
Global measles deaths increased by 50 per cent from 2016 to 2019, claiming over 207,500 lives in 2019, WHO said in a statement issued from its headquarters on Thursday in Geneva citing figures from a joint report it published with the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC). “Measles killed...
Nigerian-born author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel has been voted the best book to have won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history. Adichie, who won the prize in 2007 for her ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, was selected in a public vote from a list of 25...
The world’s football governing body, FIFA, has written to the Ghana Football Association to mourn the death of the country’s former Head of State Ft. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. H.E Rawlings died on Thursday, 12 November 2020, at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital in Accra at age 73. Unconfirmed...
In the month of December 2019, an opinion article entitled “Sowore, And Silence from Unusual Quarters’’ by this author appeared in some national dailies. It precisely focussed on the protracted roller-coaster relationship that existed between the Nigerian Department of Security Services (DSS) and Omoyele Sowore, a Nigerian human rights activist,...
*** 54,738 poor households in Bauchi benefit from FG’s N3bn Conditional Cash Transfer Programme By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The federal government, under its Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, has begun the disbursement of a N20,000 grant to rural women in Bauchi state to enable them start small businesses that...
By BARBARA KALU, Abuja – Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the launch of the digital marketing platform for tie and dye (adire), AdireOgun.com, as an innovative way to take the authentic fabrics to the global market. Speaking at the launch of the website...
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has expressed concern over the mental state of survivors of COVID-19 in the country. Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the taskforce, expressed the concern in Abuja at the joint national briefing of the taskforce....