By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of five people to serve in the Office of the President under the Media and Publicity Directorate. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement...
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The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh, has described the country’s maritime sector as one of the fastest growing on the African continent. Jamoh said this during the interactive session by the Senate Committee on Marine Transport with the Chief Executive...
The Deputy Governor of Edo, Mr Philip Shaibu, has been officially invited by organisers of the much-anticipated inaugural Nigeria-France Sports Award and Gala. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the event is expected to be a gathering of both past and present Nigerian athletes, sports administrators and...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the late Christopher Ogunbanjo is an exceptional legal luminary who left behind in the country a vacuum that will be difficult to fill. Obasanjo in a statement on Monday in Abeokuta issued by his media aide, Kehinde...
The Enugu State Government has dismissed reports that it had put up the Hotel Presidential, abandoned for over two decades, for sale, stressing that the hotel will never be sold. The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Aka Eze Aka, made the disclosure on Monday in Enugu. He said...
The Minister of The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has sought the collaboration of the European Union (EU) to strengthen the economy of the federal capital, Abuja. Wike made the appeal when the EU Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Samuela Isopi, visited him in his office in Abuja...
No fewer than six persons have sustained various injuries when a petroleum tanker exploded on Monday at Sandaji Filling Station in Lafia, Nasarawa State. The tanker which brought petroleum product to the filling station located at Jos Road Lafia, exploded around 12:00pm. Comfort Igwe, a pump...
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), on Monday, confirmed that 117 children died following Diphtheria outbreak in Yobe since 2022. The Agency, however, said that 1,600 children had recovered from the disease within the period under review. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive-Director of the Agency, stated this...
Recently, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State approved a 25 percent reduction in acceptance fees payable in the four state-owned universities as part of palliatives for students. The governor’s approval was contained in a statement issued by Festus Ahon, his chief press secretary, on Wednesday, in Asaba. ...
Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on March 2, 2021, when he, alongside others in his vehicle, fell into the hands of some Fulani kidnappers along Osogbo-Ibokun-Ilesa Road in the state. While some of the...
A former Managing Director of Daily Times Newspapers, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi, has said that Nigeria’s educational system is in bad shape and needs urgent attention. Ogunbiyi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Monday, urged governments at all levels to intervene,...
Lagos State will host the 2023 biennial lecture of the Federal University of Technology- Owerri (FUTO) Alumni Association; the 6th in the series, where techies, technocrats and academics including Ernest Ndukwe, an Engineer and Chairman, MTN Nigeria, and other thought leaders would proffer solutions to reflate the nation’s...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Ministry of Information and Internal Security has announced a ban on hawking and illegal trading or loitering around the renovated Maiduguri Monday Market with immediate effect from today Monday, 9th October 2023. The State’s Commissioner of Information and Internet Security,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other stakeholders have received the sum of N5,425,630,867.16billion as share of statutory allocation for the month of August, 2023. The FCT Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, who presided over the...
Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 558 people on the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave says. More than 65 extra people have been counted as dead, upping the total, while more than 2,800 have been injured. Israel launched the counterattack after a major assault...
Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla flagged off “Exercise Crocodile Lift’’ and “Ex-Grand African Nemo 2023’’ on Monday in Lagos to improve maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. The CNS alongside senior Naval officers and French nationals onboard NNS KADA. Ogalla flagged off the combined...
Former Super Eagles captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has reiterated his call for proper management of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) league to make it attractive to investors.oko Okocha said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. The mercurial...
The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Federal Capital Territory Wing has suspended its ongoing strike for six weeks following intervention of the FCT Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike. The Chairmen of the union, Mr Stephen Knabayi, confirmed the suspension in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Ogbia High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Monday adjourned a suit seeking to stop work on the Oloibiri Museum and Research Centre, at Otuabagi in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa until Oct. 19. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case was slated for...