By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has unveiled a new fleet of 70 buses for metro transport and to ease the movement of civil servants to their various places of work. The initiative aims to alleviate the burden of commuting for both government...
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The Niger Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) on Monday said the death toll from Sunday’s boat mishap in Mokwa Local Government Area had risen to 30 from 24. Alhaji Garba Salihu, NSEMA’s acting Director General, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By JOHN MAYAKI The urgent need for national attention to address the absence of development and the decay of infrastructure in the oil-rich Niger Delta region cannot be overstated. This is precisely why the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was established with the crucial mission of driving...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has promised to donate free land, uniform and other demand of the Scout Association of Nigeria to encourage volunteers to render effective humanitarian services. Dr. Agbu made the pledge at 2023 National Annual General Meeting of scouting held...
By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – In continuation of Sokoto State Governor, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto’s 100 days in office, Vice President Kashim Shetima on Monday flagged off the distribution of 140 vehicles for mass transportation and food palliatives to the vulnerable persons in the state. Governor Aliyu in...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – A leading independent newspaper in Nigeria, DAILY TRUST, has called for nominations of exemplary personalities for the coveted African of the Year 2023 award. Nominations are open from September 11, 2023 to midnight of October 16, 2023. The Group Chief Executive Officer of...
Nigeria’s first indigenous chartered accountant, Akintola Williams, is dead. The older brother of Frederick Rotimi Williams (SAN), popularly known as FRA Williams, was said to have died in his Lagos home. According to PUNCH Online, Williams died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 104....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) says Nigerians fall victims of electronic fraud because they expose themselves to the fraudsters by releasing their sensitive information to them. The Commission’s Director of Consumer Affairs, Alhaji Umar Alkassim,stated this in an interview with journalists during a sensitization...
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, says Nigeria requires N21 trillion to effectively bridge housing deficit, despite efforts across the three tiers governments. The vice president stated this on Sunday in Sokoto at the groundbreaking for the construction of a 500-unit housing estate by the State government. Shettima,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has lauded Governor Ademola Adeleke for proving his critics wrong by being a dancing but hard-working Governor in the governance affairs of the state. During his address at the 16th Harvest Anniversary and Thanksgiving Service held at...
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Sunday described the death of Sheikh Abubakar Giro as a great loss to the West African subregion. Shettima stated this in Argungu, Kebbi State, during a condolence visit on behalf of President Bola Tinubu, to the bereaved family of late Giro, who died...
Minister of Works, David Umahi expressed shock on Sunday at the sight of the gully erosion at Oba, a community in Anambra on the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway. Umahi assured that the Federal Government would take urgent steps to ensure that the Owerri-bound side of the expressway was not severed...
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, on Sunday said the Federal Government had obtained 163 million dollars loan from the African Development Bank to support wheat production in the country. Shettima stated this at the palace of the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Sumaila Mera, when he paid a condolence visit...
Tragedy struck in Niger State on Sunday after a boat capsized in the Mokwa area of the state. The exact number of people onboard the boat and the cause of the accident is yet to be confirmed as at the time of filing this report. Speaking to...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu will meet with the leadership of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during a stopover in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, Special, said in a statement on Sunday, that the stopover would be after the President’s...
Governments at all levels must rise and checkmate the proliferation of small arms as insecurity rages unabated in the country, Catholic Bishops declared in Abuja on Sunday. They decried the terror regularly unleashed on communities by bandits, religion extremists and other gunmen. “Governments should urgently check the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a renowned civil society organization dedicated to championing justice, transparency, and accountability in Nigeria, has expressed deep concern over recent developments surrounding the alleged removal of the Rector at Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree....