By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – The Foreign Post-Graduate Scholarship Programme of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has been described as a strategic intervention for the training of quality manpower to ensure the sustainable development of the Niger Delta region. The NDDC Director, Education, Health and Social Services,...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has opened up on challenges and progress of governance , listing multiple achievements and assuring the residents of more delivery of democratic dividends. In a statewide address delivered this Monday morning, the State Governor expressed appreciation...
By PAUL EJIME – Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has expressed gratitude to Nigeria and paid tribute to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Nigeria, for supporting electoral processes and the consolidation of democracy in Liberia. Speaking at the dedication of an Information and...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has said the Commission has completed some key development projects and will embark on massive commissioning across the Niger Delta region in 2024. Speaking during an interactive session with...
President Bola Tinubu has said that none of his appointees would be allowed to give excuses for non-performance in their assigned duties and responsibilities. In a New Year address to the nation on Monday in Lagos, Tinubu said that he had pledged to serve the country and would...
President Bola Tinubu has said he will continue to work toward a better Nigeria to justify the trust placed on him by electing him into office in February 2023. The President, who stated this in a New Year message on Monday in Lagos, said that justifying that trust...
President Bola Tinubu has said that the Federal Government would implement a new national living wage for industrious workers in 2024. He said that the decision was not only for good economic sense but “because it is the morally and politically correct thing to do”. In a New...
Nigerians on Monday joined their counterparts across the world to herald the year 2024, with supplication to halt hunger in the land and made resolutions. The people, who thronged worship centres in Lagos for the Passover night service, spared no time in thanking God for seeing another year....
Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State has called for more support from residents so as to deliver a resounding blow to insecurity in the state. The governor, in his New Year message on Monday, said that the government was committed to overcoming the security and other challenges bedeviling...
Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has said the governors of the North Central states will intervene in the Plateau crisis towards finding a lasting peace. The governor disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a visit to President Bola Tinubu on Sunday in Lagos. He said...
Gombe State Governor Inuwa Yahaya has granted clemency to 39 inmates serving various jail terms in Correctional facilities in the state. Yahaya made this known in a statewide broadcast to the people of the state on Monday in Gombe, as part of activities to mark the New Year....
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, in the spirit of new year, has pardoned 14 prisoners serving various terms in some correctional centres across the state. The development was disclosed in a statement on Monday, by the state’s Attorney General and...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – A senior clergy from Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria, Rev. Joseph Ajaver, has appealed to Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas, to protects the displaced Tiv people and return them to their settlements. Rev. Ajaver made the call in his new year...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has assured Nigerians living in the state that his administration will continue to prioritize the safety of their lives and properties in 2024 and beyond. The Governor gave the assurance in his New Year Message to Nigerians made available...
The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) asks the public to ignore a poster circulating on social media inviting people to a closed WhatsApp group session on “How to be free from spiritual spouse /attacks under 7 days”. The program will hold daily from March 12-15, 2024....
Dear Compatriots, It gives me immense joy to welcome each and every one of you – young and old- to this brand new year 2024. We must lift up our hands to Almighty God, in gratitude, for his grace and benevolence to our country and our lives...
Zamfara Governor, Dauda Lawal of Zamfara has signed the state’s 2024 Appropriation Bill of N426.5 billion into law. His media aide, Mr Sulaiman Idris stated on Sunday in Gusau that the governor signed the Appropriation Bill into law on Saturday. The state’s House of Assembly approved the bill on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has congratulated Nigerians for making it to the New Year and advised them to renew their hope that Nigeria could be better. Akpabio said this in a New Year message issued by his Special Adviser on Media...
The Obi of Ubulu-Uk in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, His Royal Majesty, Obi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze, has urged the government to end the collective trauma his people have been subjected to in the past seven years after suspected cattle herders killed his father and...
The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Rep Abubakar Bitchi, says MDAs have pledged to increase their revenue-base in the 2024 fiscal year in order to fund the budget. Bitchi said this after the House approved the 2024 Budget proposal which was presented before the joint...