Ghanaians are marking the 111th birthday of their first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with series of programmes such as lectures and symposiums to commemorate the day which had been declared as a public holiday since 2009. Known as the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the day is also set aside to reflect on the...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari Monday urged Kaduna State indigenes to cooperate with government and security agencies to secure peace and harmony, stressing that development will only take place when energies are collectively channelled to building, instead of destruction of lives and property. In apparent reference...
Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Atiku-Bagudu, on Monday laid the foundation of Nigeria’s first FIFA mini stadium in Birnin Kebbi. According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria, the facility will initially have 267 seats and could be expanded to accommodate 6,000 fans. The project, which is being...
The Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of Nigeria (ARCAN) has lined up a two-week long, five-lecture series to commemorate the 60th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria. The lecture series scheduled to commence from Tuesday, 22 September, 2020 through to Tuesday, 6 October, 2020 is themed Nigeria @ 60- The Journey So...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has expressed worry at the inability of some companies and service providers to resolve consumers’ complaints and provide feedback mechanism for their products. Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Director-General of the commission, said this at a National Virtual Policy Dialogue organised by...
Acting Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), Mr Victor Muruako, said over N1.8 trillion had been paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) by agencies and state’s owned enterprises listed in the schedule to FRC 2009. Muruako made the disclosure at the one day training organised by the Fiscal Responsibility...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed rules for the testing of African herbal remedies to fight Covid-19. Sound science would be the sole basis for safe and effective traditional therapies to be adopted, it said. Any traditional remedies that are judged effective could be fast-tracked for large-scale manufacturing....
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night met behind closed doors with President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Bashir Ahmad, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, confirmed this on his Twitter handle. The presidential aide, who could not elaborate on the agenda of the meeting...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 97 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country, bringing the total confirmed cases to 57, 242 nationwide. The NCDC disclosed this on its official twitter handle on Sunday . It added that three persons died of COVID-19 complications while 138 patients,...
SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has said that if concerted efforts are not put in place for the safe return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to their ancestral abode, the nation may be doomed by facing more severe challenges, as Boko Haram insurgents are...
One of Nigeria’s biggest finance outfits, Citygate Group, has acquired a parcel of land for its global headquarters in Ikeja area of Lagos State. The Group, with its headquarters in Lagos, started from a one room apartment 14 years ago and now has presence in 13 states and Abuja,...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Rivers State government and energy company, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), in Port Harcourt on Thursday, inaugurated the Egi/Igburu Cluster Development Board (CDB) for pipeline communities to SPDC’s Assa North Gas project, which has a capacity for 300 million standard cubic...
OLA MODUPE, Lagos Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to “urgently instruct Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to withdraw the proposed executive bill to amend the Economic and Financial Crimes...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Polaris Bank Limited has announced the appointment of Mr Segun Opeke as an Executive Director of the Bank by the Board of Directors and AMCON. This was contained in a statement to NATIONAL ACCORD signed by Babatunde Osibodu, the Company Secretary. The development comes on the...
Alhaji Shehu Idris, the 18th Emir of Zazzau and the Chairman, Kaduna State Council of Chiefs is dead. The Waziri of Zazzau, Malam Ibrahim Muhammad, confirmed the emir’s death to the News Agency of Nigeria in Zaria. The Emir died at the 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna in the early...