Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday swears in 25 commissioners and three permanent secretaries, charging them to be efficient and effective in moving the state forward in line with his administration’s plans and policies. While congratulating the newly appointed Commissioners, the Governor calls on them to discharge...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Vice President, Sen. Kashim Shettima today appealed to former senators to support the administration of President Bola Tinubu, describing him as a leader with a genuine interest to transform the country. Speaking to a delegation comprising his former colleagues from...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has paid a courtesy visit to the Chief of Defence Staff ( CDS), Major General Christopher Gwabin Musa. Governor Sule said he came to congratulate the CDS on his well deserved appointment, while appreciating the Armed Forces of Nigeria...
Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student from Anambra State, has written to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB), asking for leniency from the Board for manipulating her 2023 Tertiary and Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. Mmesoma presented her letter of apology before the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on alleged Manipulation...
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) on Wednesday in Abuja said that Nigeria targets to earn five billion dollars from the outsourcing industry in 2024. The Executive Director of NEPC, Dr Ezra Yakusak said this at the National Conference on International Trade-in-Service organised by the council, on Wednesday in...
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has said that the hike in the price of products due to abrupt removal of subsidy was threatening the survival of their businesses. Mr Chinedu Anyaso, Chairman of IPMAN Enugu Depot Community said average sales had dropped by about 50 percent...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to revive the Public Mass Transit and Urban Mass Transit Schemes to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians following the removal of oil subsidy. The call is sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion, jointly sponsored by Rep. Olumide Osoba,...
A labour leader, Mr Temidayo Temola, has decried the recent increase in pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from N520 per litre to N617 per litre. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), on Tuesday, announced increase in the pump...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A chieftain of the Labour Party, Rommy Okoli, has congratulated Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election on the occasion of his 62nd birthday anniversary. Okoli in a birthday message made available in Awka on Wednesday, described ...
The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Kogi on Wednesday reserved judgment in a petition filed by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akpoti-Uduaghan, who lost the Kogi Central...
The House of Representatives has resolved to set up an Ad hoc Committee to investigate the circumstances leading to the increment of pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from from N537 to N617. The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu (PDP-Imo)...
Emadeb Energy Service Ltd., a depot owner and one of the marketers licensed to import fuel, has taken delivery of 27 million litres at its depot. Its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Debo Olujimi, disclosed this during the inaugural ceremony at its Ijegun Satellite Depot on Wednesday in Lagos....
A 46-year old man, identified as Jude, has been arrested by the police for allegedly impregnating his two daughters in Ikwa community, Zuba Chiefdom, in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja. A neighbour, identified as Idris, who disclosed that the accused, a father of four: two females and two males,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned one Mohammad Idris before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on one count charge of obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N1,000,000.00...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; a former Minister of Information and Communication, Frank Nweke Jr., are among the dignitaries expected at the Tuesday, July 25 public presentation of a book written by Omoniyi Ibietan, the head of media...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), in its efforts to combat corruption and highlight uninvestigated alleged high-profile corruption cases in Nigeria, has announced plans to organize a protest at the offices of the two leading anti-graft agencies in...
Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party at the 2023 elections, says he can’t celebrate his 62nd birthday with over 327 Nigerians killed in Plateau and Benue this month. Obi, however, humbly appealed to all those who desired to celebrate him with any kind of gifts, to...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Troops of 192 Battalion Nigerian Army operating in 81 Division Area of Responsibility have intercepted a suspected international drug syndicate smuggling a truck load of substance suspected to be Cannabis Sativa (Marijuana) en route Sango Otta in Ogun State. The Army spokesman, Brigadier General...