The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) says it has begun the adoption of modern innovations to improve service delivery to customers in its four franchise states. The states include Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and Rivers. The PHED’s Managing Director, Dr Benson Uwheru made this known...
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By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The committee on prerogative of mercy has freed 31 awaiting trial inmates from Bauchi Custodial Centre and other correctional services across the state. The Bauchi State Chief Judge, Justice Rabi Umar, who led the committee on a routine quarterly visit to review...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The General Manager of Borno State Environmental Protection Agency, BOSEPA, Alhaji Abubakar Sulaiman, along with the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Engr Modu Abadam, have participated in the monthly sanitation exercise on Saturday. The team visited different areas in Maiduguri and its...
The Federal Government and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have called for support from the international community to restore democratic rule in Niger Republic. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Ibrahim Lamuwa, stated this while briefing the diplomatic corps on the political situation in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Governor Ademola Adeleke has kick-started the Osun State Business Growth Initiative through strategic partnership with federal and international organisations and agencies. In line with his commitment to transform Osun from a civil service state to a business and industrial state, the Governor in Abuja...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has called on warring market factions at Kajola town to stop feud and confrontations to allow mediatory intervention by the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry. Governor Adeleke made the call on Friday in a statement issued by his spokesman,...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas has tasked the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on effective service delivery in the state as mature age required mature mind. Dr. Kefas made this appeal on Friday during the 60th Anniversary of the Nigeria Immigration Service , held...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Nigeria Medium and Large-Scale Printers League has lauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu for Patronising Local Printing Industry and for the exceptional privilege of printing all electoral materials locally for the just concluded 2023 General Election. ...
President Bola Tinubu has conveyed the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on recent military intervention in Niger. The ECOWAS decision is contained in a letter addressed to President of Senate, Godswill Akpiabio and read at plenary on Friday. Tinubu, who is the...
Striking Resident doctors may not receive their salaries for a while as the Federal Government has issued a ‘no work, no pay’ policy following their on-going strike. This is contained in a letter written by the Director of Hospital Services, Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), Dr Andrew Noah,...
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Mr Festus Keyamo for consideration and approval of Senate, as minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Tinubu also withdrew earlier nomination of Dr.Maryam Shetty nominee from Kano and replaced her with a new nominee Dr Mairiga Mahmud also from Kano. Tinubu...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The new Obong of Calabar, Etubom Anthony Ani has promised to build a new Obong of Calabar Palace that is befitting like the Buckingham Palace in the space of 36 months. Etubom Ani, who is a former Minister of Finance, made the...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it would embark on a nationwide strike from Aug. 14, if the contemptuous Court summons are not withdrawn by the initiator. NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, stated this in communique jointly signed with Mr Emmanuel Ugboaja, General Secretary of NLC on...
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated the founder of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu on the occasion of his 63rd birthday anniversary. The president’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued by his media aide, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, on Friday in Abuja. Tinubu praised the entrepreneurial ingenuity...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Ony about 24 percent of infants in Nigeria get exclusive breastfeeding within the first six (6) months of birth, a survey on National Maternity Entitlement carried out by Alive and Thrive in collaboration with Federal ministry of Health has revealed. The survey...
President Bola Tinubu says the policies of his administration are for the best interest of Nigerians and not to punish people. Tinubu said this in an address at the 12th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in Abuja. “Nigeria is going through...
President Bola Tinubu has called on the people of Kogi West Senatorial District to maintain peace and unity ahead of the forthcoming governorship elections in the State. He was speaking at a meeting with leaders of Okun Development Association, led by Prof. Micheal Ikupolati, at the Presidential Villa in...
Edo State Government has resumed the payment of outstanding gratuities to its pensioners 17 years after it stopped the exercise. Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser on Media projects to Edo government made this known in Benin on Thursday. He told newsmen that one of the reasons for...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The United Nations Children’s Fund has stated that only 26.4 percent of children aged 0 to 5 months in Bauchi State are exclusively breastfed according to the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2021 report. A Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Philomena Irene, stated...