The Federal Government has handed over the completed 62-kilometre, 3.02 billion dollars Port Harcourt-Aba railway project to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC). The Port Harcourt-Aba section is part of the larger Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern Narrow Guage railway project, initiated under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Ayo Dada,...
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The Federal Government has handed over 15 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered buses to the transport unions in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Clean Energy Transport Scheme. Speaking at the handover ceremony in Abuja, the Minister of Transportation, Sen. Said Alkali, said the scheme was designed to ease...
Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, said closing gender gaps has the potential to add N15 trillion to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Productivity (GDP) annually by 2025. Sulaiman-Ibrahim stated this on Thursday in Abuja at the joint UN Accountability Forum and Orange/Lighting ceremony, themed: ” Towards Beijing +30: Unite...
Senator Ali Ndume has reiterated his opposition to the tax reform bills, saying that the hurry by the Presidency and some lawmakers to pass the bills looks suspicious. The tax reform bills which passed for second reading at the Senate on Thursday have raised a lot of controversies since...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos– The Plateau State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to creating a supportive environment for a thriving tech ecosystem that will enhance economic activities in the region. Governor Caleb Mutfwang emphasized that his administration prioritizes empowering the younger generation to harness their potential in the tech...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As Sokoto state executive council Wednesday gave approval for the 2025 budget draft to be presented to the state assembly on Friday for consideration, the commissioner of Lands and Housing, Barrister Nasiru Dantsoho has assured that the governor, Ahmed Aliyu is on course to...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (APC Borno South) has bagged ‘The Sun Newspaper Courage in Leadership 2024’ by standing and always defending the plights of Nigerian Masses, especially his constituents at the National Assembly. Recall that even at the last Wednesday Plenary presided over by...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Ododo, has unveiled an ambitious plan to revolutionize the state’s urban and housing landscape. The Governor announced this development during a 2-day symposium themed: “Modern Housing and Urban Development” held at the Glass House, Government House in Lokoja. The governor...
The Senate, on Thursday, resumed its debate on the Tax Reform Bills. The bills are a set of four legislative proposals to increase Value-Added Tax (VAT) distributable to the sub national governments to 55 per cent while reducing the federal government’s share to 10 per cent. These far-reaching initiatives...
The seventh prosecution witness, Mr John Adetola, in the ongoing trial of ex-governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, narrated how he collected the sum of $400,000 on behalf of the ex-governor. Adetola, who was the former personal assistant to Emefiele, made the revelation on Thursday while giving evidence before...
The House of Representatives has confirmed the appointment of Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede as substantive Chief of Army Staff of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Lt. Gen. Oluyede’s confirmation by the House follows his screening by an ad hoc committee which submitted its report that...
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said his administration has begun payment of ₦85,000 minimum wage for state workers, despite attempts by those he described as “enemies of the state” to deprive his administration of funds. Speaking during the launch of the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Emblem Appeal Fund...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Board of Trustees of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved the suspension of the foreign component of the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) Intervention The Director, Public Affairs, TETFund, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, that the...
Former Minister of Power, Olu Agunloye, on Thursday told an Abuja High Court that the amendment of the charge by the EFCC in his ongoing trial was an overreach. Agunloye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in the suit, marked FCT/HC/CR/617/2023, on a seven-count....
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Taraba State University chapter has decried poor working condition, neglects and exclusion from the current N70,000 minimum wage from the state government. The chairperson of the association, Dr. Mbave Joshua disclosed this on Thursday in an exclusive...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has flagged off the distribution of food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Amarwa and Madinatu IDPs Camps in Maiduguri during his two days State working visit to Maiduguri, Borno State. Nentawe with...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, ordered the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, to produce two foreign nationals; Etienne Rocher and Pawan Kapur, alongside others, before it for arraignment. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik gave the order following the absence of the defendants in court to take...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) says the conviction of a 54-year old ‘fake doctor’ will strengthen the association’s work against medical quackery. Its first Vice-President, Dr Benjamin Olowojebutu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. Olowojebutu said the NMA was...
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday ordered the remand of a 52-year-old man, Taiwo Olaniyan, in Agodi correctional facility for allegedly causing the death of his unborn child. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, who did not take the defendant’s plea for lack of jurisdiction,...
A Makurdi High Court has ordered the reinstatement of Mr Austin Agada and other elected executives of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Benue chapter, whose tenures were terminated by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC). The presiding judge, Justice Tertsegha Kume, gave the order on Thursday in his verdict...