By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – In a proactive move aimed at enhancing Nigeria’s export potential and strengthening trade relations with China, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has organized a one-day sensitization workshop on the General Administration of Chinese Customs (GACC) in Jos, Plateau State’s capital. The workshop,...
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African leaders including Heads States and Government, Ministers of Defence, National Security Advisors, and representatives of regional organisations, UN and others have adopted the Abuja Declaration in tackling terrorism in Africa. The declaration made at the end of the High–Level African Counter–Terrorism Meeting, held on Monday and Tuesday...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) has taken a significant step towards enhancing sports facilities at the University of Jos (UNIJOS) with the commencement of the construction of a N250 million sport complex. The facility, located at the Naraguta Campus of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Government has announced the immediate dethronement of 15 traditional leaders for various offences bordering on aiding insecurity, land racketeering and others while 4 others are still being investigated. Making the decision of the state government known in a statement signed by...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Plateau State Government has allocated three hundred million naira (N300,000,000.00) monthly to address outstanding pensions, gratuities, and death benefits dating back to 1986. During an inter-ministerial press briefing in Jos, Plateau State Head of Service, Barrister Rauta Dakok, shared that since Governor...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), under the leadership of its Ag. Director General, Mr. Ignatius O. Ayewoh, recently paid a courtesy visit to the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajero, to seek collaboration with the Labour Union in...
On the 6th of April, 2024, leading digital news platform Legit.ng partnered with the Shade of Life Foundation to amplify the voices of autism through the media and drive advocacy for improved media support of autism in Nigeria during Autism Awareness Month. The NGO was born out of...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Coordinator of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Abdulkarim Sirika has appealed to unemployed Nigerian youths to embrace skills and entrepreneurship rather than waiting for white collar jobs that are not really available. According to Sirika, rather than waiting for the usual...
Fresh revelations have emerged on the probe of former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the anti-graft commission says the embattled ex-governor withdrew $720,000 from the state’s accounts to pay his child’s school fees in advance just before...
Kai Havertz and Ben White scored twice as Arsenal thrashed Chelsea 5-0 on Tuesday to surge ahead in the Premier League title race and ramp up the pressure on Liverpool and Manchester City. Leandro Trossard was also on target for the Gunners, who move three points clear...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has invited a former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Siri , over alleged N8.06 billion money laundering. A reliable source from the commission, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the former minister was at the Federal Capital Territory Command of the EFCC...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has suspended indefinitely its Mr David Udo-Udom, the lecturer, allegedly involved in sexual harassment of a female student. The UNN Public Relations Officer, Chief Okwun Omeaku, disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the union would not oppose any sanction against the lecturer allegedly involved in sex scandal in a video trending in the social media. Chairperson of ASUU, University of Nigeria Nsukka, (UNN), Dr Oyibo Eze, said this in Nsukka...
The Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday summoned Lead British International School, Abuja over an alarming viral online video regarding alleged bullying incidents at the school. At the meeting held in Abuja, the Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu, emphasised government’s steadfast stance against any form...
A Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed May 17 for a ruling on a bail application filed by the detained Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan. Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Gambaryan’s lawyer, Mark Mordi, SAN, adopted...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said his purported suspension from the party, by individuals masquerading as executives of his ward, is just like an African drama. Ganduje said this when he received members of Forum of the States APC Chairman...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Dana Air has apologised to its passengers and is re-timing flight operations following the incident of one of its aircraft skidding off the Murtala Mohammed International Airport runway in Lagos State. It would be recalled that an aircraft belonging to Dana Airline,...
The Kogi State House of Assembly on Tuesday urged the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to obey court order in respect alleged N80. 4 billion fraud case against former governor Yahaya Bello. The house equally called on the commission to with immediate effect remove the tag ’WANTED’...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has bagged six awards at the recently concluded 2024 Bonds, Loans and ESG Capital Markets Africa Awards in South Africa. This is contained in a statement signed by Vincent Musumba, Manager, Communications and Events, Afeximbank, in Abuja on Tuesday. Musumba said the awards...
The President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), Musa Kida, has appealed to the federal government to release funds early to enable D’Tigress prepare adequately for the Paris Olympics. Kida made the appeal at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...