The House of Representatives has resolved to intervene in the dispute between the female national football team, the Super Falcons and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup. This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Olumide Osoba (APC-Ogun) at plenary on Wednesday....
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A retired Court of Appeal judge, Justice Peter Ige, says the appellate court needs more than the statutory 60 days to determine appeals from Election Petition Tribunals. Ige stated this on Wednesday in Ibadan during a valedictory court session held in his honour at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified poverty as major determinant of whether a child has access to immunisation against vaccine-preventable disease or not. The fund disclosed this in its ‘State of The World’s Children 2023’ report, adding that there are millions of such children in Africa, referred to...
The President and members of the Senate have congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his emergence as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The News Agency of Nigeria ((NAN) reports that Tinubu emerged at the recently concluded 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday received 146 stranded Nigerians from Niamey, Niger republic. Dr Nuraddeen Abdullahi, NEMA Co-coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, stated this while receiving the returnees at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the returnees arrived...
Gov. Hyacinth Alia of Benue said he was focused on governance and service delivery to the people and not after his predecessor, Mr Samuel Ortom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Terver Akase, a media aide to Ortom and the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP...
The APC Governorship Candidate in Kogi, Ahmed Usman Ododo has promised to consolidate on the initiatives of Gov. Yahaya Bello when elected in the state’s Nov. 11 governorship poll. Ododo gave the assurance at the Official Unveiling of “Okun United for Ododo Project 2023”, on Wednesday in Kabba, Kabb-Bunu...
In the next few weeks the firepower at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) will ebb as the five-member panel of the court, headed by Justice Haruna Tsammani, has sent lawyers and petitioners back to their chambers to produce their final written addresses. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a day-old female baby that was dumped near a sewage tank on Gowon Estate, Ipaja, area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday....
Attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to arraign its suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hundu Yunusa-Ari, before Adamawa State High Court 9 sitting in Yola, suffeted a step back on Wednesday. The trial Judge, Justice Benjamin Manji, drew the attention of the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN,...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved the appointments of the former Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Malam Bukar Tijani as Secretary to the State Government (SSG). The Governor has also reappointed Professor Isa Hussaini Marte as his Chief of Staff....
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has announced the launch of a new initiative to empower the youth of the Niger Delta region. The initiative, called HOPE, stands for Holistic Opportunity Projects of Engagement, and it aims to create 1,000 jobs per state through...
The House of Representatives has resolved to Investigate alleged fictitious contract awards, gross mismanagement of billions of naira and lopsided placement of directors by the Nigerian Maritime Administration And Safety Agency (NIMASA). The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Kingsley Chinda (PDP-Rivers) and five others on...
The Nigeria Navy in Port Harcourt says it has uncovered a huge mechanism installed in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 18 wellhead being used to siphon crude oil into waiting barges. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that OML 18 wellhead is owned and operated by the Nigerian...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, a former lawmaker said on Wednesday in Abuja that he would approach the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which affirmed the primary election of Ahmed Ododo. Delivering judgment in the suit marked FHC/CS/556/2023, Justice James Omotosho held that Adeyemi’s...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), an international agency funded by the Rockefeller, IKEA Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund have appointed the immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, as a Global Advisor. This announcement was made at a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has visited the Secretary to the Federal Government, Sen. George Akume to discuss areas of cooperation and intervention by the federal government. A statement issued and signed by Mamman Mohammed, the Director General, Press and Media to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday hosted the United Nation’s Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, alongside Malala Yousafzai, a girl-child education activist and UN peace ambassador in Maiduguri. During the visit, Zulum said his administration have enrolled thousands of out-of-school girls in an...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Stakeholders in the environmental sector have decried the alarming rate of deforestation in Cross River state through illegal logging, saying the state government and other stakeholders must rise to the occasion. They stated this during a one day Multi-Stakeholders Conference on Deforestation in Cross...
Brig.- Gen. Mohammed-Aminu Abdullahi has assumed duty as the 38th Commandant of Depot Nigerian Army Zaria, Kaduna state. A statement by Capt. Iliya Dauda, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Officer of the Depot, said on Wednesday in Zaria that the new commandant took over the affairs of the school...