The Abakaliki Rice Mill Owners Association says there will be surplus supply of products in the market during Christmas period due to the bumper harvest experienced from 2023 planting. Mr Linus Nkwuda, Chairman of the Association, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abakaliki, Ebonyi,...
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The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare has intervened in the case of a widow whose Inlaw planned to bury her late husband inside a forest. This followed a report by the widow, Mrs Amarachi Anakor, to the Commissioner in the Ministry, Mrs Ify Obinabo. The...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The eleven electoral wards in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, today smiled home with the sum of five hundred thousand naira (500,000) each as palliative. Similarly, a total of 1500 bags of 50kgs of maize and another 1500 bags of...
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, says the 2023 supplementary budget is a bold and pragmatic response to address the current economic challenges in the country. Idris stated this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Rabiu Ibrahim, on Thursday in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa to serve as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Disability Matters. The appointment is in President Tinubu’s determination to ensure that every segment of society is sufficiently catered to within...
Many passengers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja are currently stranded and unable to continue their journeys due to a protest organised by labour unions on Thursday morning, according to the Punch reports. The protesters, who blocked the entrance of the airport, are members of...
The National Commission for Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) has received 36 Nigerian migrants including children deported from Sweden. The Federal Commissioner, NCFRMI, Alhaji Tijani Ahmed during the returnees profiling said that usually the deportees must have been contacted either on the account of their overstayed...
A group has called on President Bola Tinubu to assent to the Ogoni Bill of Rights as adopted by the people of the land. The group include People Advancement Centre(PAC), Ogoni People Assembly, Partners for Electoral Reform and Social Action. Mr Akpobar Celestine, PAC Team Leader made the appeal...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke is to submit the 2024 budget proposals to the State House of Assembly this Thursday by 10am. This is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Osogbo by the governor’s spokesman, Malam Olawale Rasheed. The statement...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of twenty (20) qualified Nigerians to serve as Federal Commissioners in the National Population Commission (NPC) with nine current Federal Commissioners being appointed to a second term in office. The president’s approval was contained in...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – A Non Governmental organization (NGO), Network Against Child Trafficking and Forced Labour (NACTAL), on Wednesday in Sokoto launched “Anti-Human Trafficking Neighbourhood Watch Committee”, to help curb the heinous activities of traffickers and their collaborators. NACTAL which is the umbrella body of NGOs engaged...
No fewer than 65 directors failed to meet the cut-off mark at the ongoing promotion examination for the position of Permanent Secretary in the country. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), Dr Folasade Yemi- Esan said only 20 directors out of 85 initially invited...
The Ministry of Works in collaboration with the Lagos State government on Wednesday flagged off the Emergency Repairs of the Third Mainland Bridge. Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, accompanied by the Deputy Governor of Lagos, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, during the flag-off, said ongoing emergency rehabilitation of the...
The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Malam Ali Muhammad Ali, has said his appointment as the Chief Executive of the Agency was not by accident. Ali said this when he received members of the NAN Staff Bus Management Committee in his office on Thursday...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday departed Abuja for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the first Saudi-Africa Summit. Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the summit would take place in Riyadh on Friday. He...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) with funding from Eleva Foundation in collaboration with Sokoto State Arabic and Islamic Education Commission and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, has flagged off an entrepreneurship skills acquisition programme for 4,700 almajiri and adolescent girls...
Since the return of democracy in 1999, several elections have been conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), though not without reservations, hues and cries by political actors, analysts and watchers. Of utmost concern to most Nigerians is the fact that every election since then has been...
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Father Mathew Kukah, has said his criticism of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was never personal, reports Daily Trust. According to him, the only problem he had with the former President was his inability to manage the country’s diversity. ...
The Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Maj.-Gen. John-Ochefu Ochai, on Wednesday visited Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria to commend Prof. Umar Ka’oje for voluntarily returning N1,153,953.36 wrongly paid to him. The money was paid to the don after expiration of his teaching contract with the.nation’s apex...