Malam Isa Gusau is potentially the only government spokesperson in Nigeria who combines undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Public Relations, a discipline that specializes in creative and strategic reputation management through planned and spontaneous publicity activities.sa Nigerian Universities do not offer undergraduate programmes in public relations as a specialized...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria is rated the highest country with high rate of open defecation across the world. UNICEF Nigeria WASH Specialist, Chisom Adimorah disclosed this during a two-day media dialogue on open defecation in Biu, Borno State. The event was...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has flagged off the distribution of 4.4 million free insecticide treated nets to households across the State worth N7 billion. He stated this at the official flag-off of the distribution held on Monday at the Multi-Purpose Indoor Sports Hall,...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State House of Assembly, has elected Abubakar Suleiman, as Speaker for the second term. He was re-elected unopposed. Bauchi speaker Suleiman, the immediate past Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, represents Ningi Central Constituency. ...
Immediate past Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Army, Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas has hailed the selection of the new Service Chiefs by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Monday evening announced the appointment of new Service Chiefs. ...
An FCT High court on Tuesday fixed ruling in the enforcement of fundamental rights suit filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to July 13. Justice Hamza Muazu fixed the date after listening to submissions made by parties in the matter. In...
The coalition of Ijaw interest groups and other critical stakeholders in the environmental sector on Wednesday urged President Bola Tinubu and Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri to promulgate a Niger Delta-wide Environmental Remediation Programme.n ‘’The Bayelsa State Government, the Federal Government, the Ministers of Petroleum and...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu, has donated N10m to traders whose stores were gutted by fire at the Bogobiri area of the Calabar, the state capital. He also assured that his administration will erect ultra-modern palm oil market in the affected...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The philanthropic Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has commissioned a private hospital named ‘Foresight Premier Hospitals’ founded by an indigene of Sokoto State, Dr. Shamsu Aliyu. Wamakko, who was the Special Guest at the occasion, described the foresight of the founder of the health centre...
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has attracted 346.6 million dollars Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) from 2020 to first quarter of 2023 through the free trade zones scheme. The Managing-Director of NEPZA, Prof. Adesoji Adesugba, said this at a briefing with Commerce and Industry Correspondent Association of Nigeria...
The African Forum Scotland, Centre for Policy Research and Development, has conferred a fellowship award on the Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Kabir Bala. A statement issued by Malam Auwalu Umar, the Director, Public Affairs Directorate of the university, on Monday in Zaria, said the award...
The Kogi Government on Monday announced plans to raise N15 billion for the establishment of a third State University to be sited in Kogi Mr Wemi Jones, State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, made the disclosure while briefing newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in...
Air Vice Marshal Hassan Abubakar has been appointed as the 22nd Chief of the Air Staff by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, on Monday. According to his profile released by the NAF Headquarters, Abubakar was born on Sept. 11,...
I can read Governor Godwin Obaseki’s book like a piece of elementary poem, scripted in very uncoordinated stanzas, meant to deliver diatribe, hate, scorn, disrespect and disdain by its thematic focus. Governor Obaseki is an artful dodger who wears a cloak of an unpretentious good guy, for optics,...
A 30-year-old man, Hamza Umar, has been arrested by the police in Bauchi State after he poured kerosene on a girl and set her ablaze on the allegation that she was a witch. This is contained in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer in Bauchi, SP Ahmed...
Recently, about five major newspapers called out the DSS for bashing of sorts. The papers, which used their platforms to express varied views about the modus operandi of the Service include Vanguard, Daily Trust, The Sun, Tribune and Punch. While Vanguard’s piece on 2nd June 2023 was Dousing the...
The Labour Party and it’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi on Monday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) refused to provide documents they asked. Obi and the LP are petitioners in the petition marked CA/PEPC/03/2023 challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu. Respondents are Independent National Electoral...
President Bola Tinubu has called for stronger cooperation with the United States, as Nigeria and the rest of the world move toward renewable and other sources of clean energy. He spoke during a meeting with United States Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Energy Resources, Amb. Geoffrey Praytt, at...
The Naira on Monday depreciated against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging N770.38 to the dollar. The local currency showed a 16.19 per cent decrease when compared with N663.04 it exchanged to the dollar at the close of business on June 16. The open indicative rate...