The Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu has recommended capital punishment for vandals and theft of power infrastructure.. The minister said this in Abuja on Monday while reacting to the frequent vandalism of power infrastructure. He said that the issue of power infrastructure vandalisation and theft was one...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government on Monday signed a contract with ECC 18th Engineering Company Limited for the construction of a fly over at West End Round about at a total sum of over 7.9 billion naira. Signing the contract on behalf of the Borno State...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi- The recent comment by the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia that a section of the Masev community involved in cattle rustling that led to the attack and killing of the people at Mbakyor, Mbalom Masev in Gwer LGA was not meant to indict...
Three term Senator representing Nasarawa West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Sen. Abubakar Danso Sodangi, was laid to rest in his country home, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Sen. Sodangi APC-Nasarawa) served for three consecutive times as Senator from 1999 to 2011. Gov....
By CHRISTIAN LOT, Jos – Plateau State Government officials have taken decisive action against illegal developers encroaching on government land, issuing a stern warning to those responsible. The State government has made it clear that any structures built without proper approval will be demolished at the expense of...
A Deputy Director with the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Mr Yakubu Abisogun, on Monday, told an Ikeja High Court that Chrisland School Ikeja failed to comply with the state’s safeguarding and child protection policy. Abisogun, a Level 16 social wellbeing officer, said the ministry’s...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – Masev community under the auspices of Masev Development Association (MDA) have taken a different position with the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia over the massacre of the community members in Wa-ndoo Mbakyor, Mbalom in Gwer East Local Government Area of the state....
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The wife of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division, Nigeria Army, Sokoto State, Mrs Florence Mutkut has has advised women to get education and skills as the tools for making them relevant. Mrs Florence, who is also the chairperson of Army Officers...
President Bola Tinubu has said it is not in his character to blame past administrations for the socio-economic and security challenges in Nigeria as he is committed to taking the right actions to re-engineer the finances of the country and stay on the right path to achieve progress....
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – A four-day meeting for the establishment and strengthening of National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) in West Africa opened in Abuja on Monday, with the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Jide Idris, recalling the past experiences of Ebola,...
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has said it will embark on seven-day warning strike over alleged discrimination in payment of four months withheld salaries. The National President of SSANU, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, said this in a communique issued at the end of the union’s 47th...
Senate has urged its ad-hoc committee to ensure thorough investigation of the N30 trillion “Ways and Means” disbursed by Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)during administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. NAN report that Ways and means is a loan facility through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provides...
Heirs Holdings, an African investment company, has launched a new subsidiary, Heirs Technologies Ltd., with an ambition to empower Africa’s digital transformation. Heirs Holding said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Mr Tony Elumelu, Founder and Group...
Rotary International says its President, Mr Gordon Mclnally, is expected in Nigeria on a three-day working visit from March 15 to March 17,. The Co-coordinator, Rotary International Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the visit, Prof. Emmanuel Lufadeju, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on...
A legal practitioner, Nnedimma Eiyisi, on Monday, testified against a Briton and Director of Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd, Mr James Nolan, at a Federal High Court in Abuja. Eiyisi, while being led in evidence-in-chief by the EFCC’s counsel, Bala Sanga, revealed how she registered another company,...
Since the emergence of Dr. Ike Neliaku as the President of Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), there are visible signs of excitement amongst stakeholders in Nigeria’s Public Relations profession. And that excitement is not superficial, it is based on the efforts being made by the current leadership...
An Ikeja High Court has adjourned until April 15 to hear applications of counsel involved in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, accused of N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that when the case was called on Monday, the Director of Public...
Niger State Governor, Umar Bago has said in tandem with the Federal Government’s infrastructure initiatives, the state government has prioritized agricultural development as a catalyst for economic growth and poverty alleviation. The governor spoke on Monday at the inauguration of the remodeled Domestic Terminal of the Bola Ahmed...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, has called on women leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to come up with ideas that would support the Renewed Hope Initiative of the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu to succeed. The Minister who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Troops of the Nigerian Army have neutralised no fewer than 12 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists in Sambisa, Borno; Zamfara and Katsina State. The Director, Army Public Relations, Maj.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja Maj. Gen. Nwachukwu said the troops,...