By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday announced Ecobank, a pan-African banking group, as the official sponsor of the TotalEnergies 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Côte d’Ivoire. Head of Group Communication, Ecobank, Christiane Bossom, stated this in a statement...
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Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has said over one million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by Boko Haram crisis in the state have so far been resettled by government. Zulum made this known on Wednesday in Maiduguri while presenting the 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly....
The Rivers House of Assembly has moved a motion declaring vacant the 25 seats of members who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The motion was unanimously supported by the four-member assembly, led by Edison Ehie (PDP-Ahoada 11), during Wednesday’s...
The Labour Party (LP) Governorship Candidate in Bayelsa, Udengs Eradiri, has approached the election petition tribunal, seeking the disqualifications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate, Senator Douye Diri, and his APC counterpart, Chief Timipre Sylva. Eradiri, who rejected the results of the last governorship polls in the...
The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, has appealed for an increase in the 2024 budget of the ministry over rising cost of operations caused by inflation. Badaru said this at the 2024 budget defence before the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on defence...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the suspension, removal, and replacement of the following Chief Executive Officers under the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development with the appointment of Mrs. Olubunmi Oluwaseun Kuku as the substantive Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of...
By BOLAJI ISRAEL – FirstBank, Nigeria’s premier financial institution, is set to ignite the annual DecemberIssaVybe fun time energy with the sponsorship of heavyweight sensational Nigerian singer, Asake’s super star musical concerts in Abuja and Lagos. Asake also known as Mr Money, an award-winning singer and the...
The National Assembly joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously rejected the judiciary budget. It also gave the Minister of National Planning and DG budget 24 hours to appear before it, over poor budgetary allocation to the Nigerian judiciary, an act they...
Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been taken off from the Integrated Personnel Payment System (IPPIS). The approval for the exemption was given by The Federal Executive Council at its meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa Abuja. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central), on Wednesday, urged the federal government to allow hundred per cent local manufacturing of military kits to generate revenue for the country. This comes after a year the Infrastructure Concession...
Some road users in Lagos, on Wednesday, appealed to the Federal Government to urgently fix the failed portions around Mushin Olosha sections of Agege Motor Road causing gridlock and hardship. The road users made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. A...
The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) will stop the practice of cash and carry in appointment and promotion of civil servants in the country. FCSC Chairman, Prof. Tunji Olaopa, disclosed this to newsmen after their inauguration by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday in Abuja....
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – An unidentified man, believed to be an electricity cable thief, was found electrocuted on Monday on Mowe 33KV feeder at Ashipa village on Abeokuta/Sagamu expressway. The Regional Head, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), Mr Abdulrazaq Jimoh, confirmed the incident in a statement...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Army has dismissed as false and malicious, allegations that its Chief of Logistics, Maj.-Gen. Erema Ajerejola, acquired a million-dollar property in the U.S. with proceeds from contract scams. Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated that the allegation in...
A Nollywood thriller, “A Tribe called Judah’’, is set to hit cinema screens across Nigeria on Dec. 15, its producer has said. Ace Nollywood actress and producer of the movie, Funke Akindele, made this known on her Instagram page after the official premiere of the blockbuster in Lagos. According...
Two witnesses on Wednesday gave account of how they nearly lost their lives to machete injuries allegedly inflicted on them by agents of an Oyo state traditional ruler, Oba Solomon Akinola, the Oloko of Oko. The witnesses, Pastor Owolabi Olusegun and Mr Olufemi Adelakun gave their testimonies before an...
In-spite of cash scarcity and rationing by banks, some traders in Lagos said they are still rejecting electronic transfer of fund due to network issues. The traders, especially those engaging in petty trading, said bank network delays and failures had significantly impacted negatively on their businesses. They were...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Wednesday presented a budget proposal of the sum of N340,619,836,000.00 as Appropriation Bill for the 2024 fiscal framework, which is made up of N198,293,223,000.00 in capital expenditure and N142,326,613,000.00 in expenditure to be financed from the...
Lagos State Government has re-affirmed the integrity of the pedestrian bridge at Ojodu Berger use bus stop, saying it is structurally stable and fit for human use. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Spokesman for Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Mr Shina Odunuga, said the state government...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Nigeria’s Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has inaugurated the newly re-constituted National Council on Privatization (NCP), with a charge to members to champion the road to the economic prosperity of the Nation. Inaugurating the new NCP at the State House in Abuja on...