BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu, on Thursday signed the Community Guard Corps bill into law, noting that it will further help the conventional security agencies towards ensuring uncovering every hiding place of the bad elements. The governor, while addressing members of the...
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By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Vice President Kashim Shettima, has applauded Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, for his commitment to infrastructure development Shettima, gave the accolades on Thursday, at the official commissioning of a 5km Masaka-Luvu Road, in Karu local government area of the state. The...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N296, 985,631,978.01 into law. Recall that the State Governor, Bassey Otu had on October 26, 2024 presented the budget estimates of 250,564,235,077.05 christened, “The People’s First Budget”...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to improve the welfare and development of its staff, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promoted Five Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-Six (5,196) members of its staff nationwide. The promotion was on the heels of the 2023...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has said the death of the former Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, is a great loss as he was a library of ideas and patriotism. Otu speaking on the death of former president of...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has promised to make the 2023 Calabar Carnival the biggest street party in Africa. According to the Governor ” This is one of our campaign promises to move the Carnival to the next Level,” “If you...
Vice President Kashim Shettima, has urged Nigerians to embrace each other to fight poverty, destitution and backwardness in the country. Shettima gave the advice in Masaka, Nasarawa State, on Thursday, while commissioning the 5-km Masaka-Luvu road in Karu Local Government of the State.5-km Masaka-Luvu road The Vice-President also...
Renown farmer, Chief Afe Babalola, has beaten nine other nominees across Sub- Saharan Africa to emerge the 2024 African man of the Year in food security, the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports. The conferment of the award on the nonegarian legal icon and founder of...
Nigerian footballer Asisat Oshoala on Thursday presented her award to President Bola Tinubu and First Lady Oluremi Tinubu in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Asisat has won African Women Footballer of the Year, an annual award for Africa’s best female football player. The award...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has declared 3-day of state mourning in honour of the late Rotimi Akeredolu, who was Governor of Ondo State and Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum. The directive of Makinde, who is also the Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, is contained...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has frowned at the reckless manner a truck driver and member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) , Mohammed Bello was brutally beaten and led to his death for refusing to give money requested by...
The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, said that the corporation lost over 150,000 rail clips due to constant vandalism along railway tracks across the country between 2022 and 2023. Okhiria made the disclosure during the end of the year media briefing in Lagos on...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has distributed palliatives to flood-prone communities across the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State, as part of its efforts to mitigate the effects of flooding on the people of the state. Speaking during the handover of...
A PDP Chieftain in Lagos State, Dr Adetokunbo Pearse, has said the party’s fortune in the forthcoming bye-election in Surulere Federal Constituency depends on how it organises itself. Pearse, also a public affairs analyst, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that the PDP...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, extended the Dec. 15 interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any action step against the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice...
The newly appointed Managing Director of the Jos Water Services Corporation(JWSC), Mr Apollos Samchi, has said only 30 per cent of the population of Jos-Bukuru has access to potable pipe-borne water. Samchi, who is also a water resource engineer, communicated this on Thursday in Jos, Plateau, when he...
For Nigerians, 2023 would become one of the most remarkable years in recent memory in terms of defining moments and major events; some cheery while some are not very pleasant. This is just as there were major global events that highlighted 2023. We look at some of them:...
A PRESS STATEMENT OF SAVE DEMOCRACY GROUP – WEST AFRICA Nigeria has a natural role to play in stabilising West Africa, deepening democracy in the sub-region, and keeping military coups and coupists at bay. Being a medium power, Nigeria has the obligation of guiding West Africa by maintaining...
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has put smiles on the faces of over 3 million Nigerians through the National Cash Transfer Betta Office. The Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer programme was introduced in October 17, 2023 to sustain the social inclusion agenda of...