Diplomats and UN Staff Recreation Council (UNSRC) Nigeria Association members, have celebrated the achievements of Nigeria’s outgoing Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande. Muhammad-Bande served the country in that capacity from 2017 to 2024. During his tenure, he served as the President of the 74th...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has re-affirmed the commitment of the Commission to assist security agencies operating in the Niger Delta region. Ogbuku stated this during two separate courtesy visits by the General Officer...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has inaugurated 3 committees in reconstruction and resettlement of IDPs in Bama LGA and Cameroon Republic, farmers and herders clashes as well as street lights installation and maintenance yesterday at the Council Chamber of the Government House Maiduguri. The...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Lawmaker representing Kogi Central and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has charged Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to make funding opportunities accessible to ordinary Nigerians while uncovering $400m intervention funds domiciled in some financial institutions for couple...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Cross River State Coordinating Office has commenced the training of over one hundred exporters on the rudiments of export. The State Co-ordinator Dr Osas Damain said the workshop is geared towards exposing the newly inducted exporters on...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State Executive Council has approved the payment of WAEC fees for 16, 301 indigenes of public schools in the state. The State Government will be offsetting the payment with N440, 127, 000 (Four Hundred and Forty Million, One Hundred and...
The Federal Government may lose over N400 billion if the technical equipment and accessories procured by the National Population Commission (NPC) are allowed to waste in warehouses spread in 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), investigations show. The census materials supplied to the NPC...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Vice President Kashim Shettima on Wednesday, urged Super Eagles to sustain the momentum to lift the coveted 2023 AFCON trophy. Shettima, who made the call in his verified Facebook account, said millions of Nigerians are indeed behind the team. ” I congratulate and salute...
Boko Haram terrorists have killed no fewer than 3 persons including a police inspector were killed on Wednesday in a fresh Boko Haram attack on Kukareta, Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State. It was gathered that the terrorists set ablaze the police officer along with a makeshift...
Three soldiers and two vigilante group members have been killed in an attack by suspected militia in the Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. State Commissioner for Special Duties, Security, Timothy Kasuwa, confirmed the incident to Channels Television in a telephone conversation on Wednesday, where he...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) with the Federal Government has assisted 34,694 stranded Nigerian migrants to return home from April 2017 till date. Cyprine Cheptepkeny, Awareness Raising Programme Officer, International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Nigeria, said this during a media training on Amplifying Women’s Voices in...
Super Eagles qualify for final after beating South Africa’s Bafana Bafana 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw over 120 minutes of play in the 2023 AFCON semi-finals in Bouake, Côte d’Ivoire
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja -. Against the backdrop of the rising naira to dollar exchange rate, Social Media influencer, Reno Omokri, has called on Nigerians to patronize made-in-Nigerian products as it is the only way the country can sustain its drive towards achieving industrialisation. Mr Omokri, who stated...
The planned interface of the Senate with Service Chiefs, was stalled on Wednesday, following the absence of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa and others at the National Assembly. The Senate had Jan. 30 summoned the Service Chiefs...
The trial of a former Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, charged with alleged N754.8 million fraud on Wednesday suffered a setback due to the absence of the defence witness. Akpobolokemi is standing trial alongside Ezekiel Agaba, a former Executive Director of NIMASA, on...
The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has admonished the area council chairmen in the territory to stay in their domains and develop the communities. Wike stated this on Wednesday in Yangoji, while inaugurating the construction of 11-kilometre rural road to connect Sukuku Ebo and Yangoji...
An early mor , on Wednesday, gutted the popular Roky Fella Night Club, located at Udoji Street, Kpirikpiri, Abakaliki, destroying property worth millions of naira. The Ebonyi Chief Fire Officer, Mr Raphael Ibiam, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said he received distress call about the incident around...
An unidentified driver of a mini commercial bus ” Korope”, on Wednesday, died in an accident that occurred on the Olaiya overhead bridge in Osogbo. An eyewitness, Mrs Funmi Adeyemo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident, occurred when the bus driver allegedly slumped while...
The Anambra State Government in collaboration with security operatives on Wednesday rescued six pregnant teenagers from ‘a baby-making factory’ at Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, told journalists after the raid that the baby factory where babies...