Benue House of Assembly has approved the suspension of all the 23 local government (LG) chairmen in the state for financial misappropriation.Be The decision to suspend the LG chairmen was taken on Wednesday during plenary following a letter from Gov. Hyacinth Alia, dated June 14, 2023, requesting the house...
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Two journalists in Kogi have emerged millionaires at the maiden edition of the Gov. Yahaya Bello (GYB) Essay Competition for journalists in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emmanuel Adeyemi of The Sun Newspaper, emerged overall winner with a price of N2 million, while Richard...
The Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr Bill Gates, has urged the Federal Government to improve investment in equitable solutions and in the people who are working on them. He said this during the Pan-African Youth Innovation Forum on Wednesday in Lagos, as part of activities for his...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called for fully-integrated and multiple approaches in combating the scourge of economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called for fully-integrated and multiple approaches in combating the scourge of economic and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday grilled the immediate past governor of Benue, Mr Samuel Ortom, for nine hours before he was later released. Ortom arrived at the premises of the commission’s Zonal Headquarters, Makurdi, at 10 a.m. and left there at about 7 :00 p.m....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Professor Mohammed Arab Alhaji as Executive Director of Borno State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, SPHCDA. The appointment which is with immediate effect, was announced by Governor Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, in a statement issued...
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has expressed “total disappointment“ over what he described as the “lopsided representation“ by the immediate past Minister of Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba. In a statement in Benin by Mr Iguobaro Osaigbovo, the Chief Press Secretary to the Oba, the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday received no fewer than 102 stranded Nigerians from Libya. The returnees were officially received by Mr Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General, NEMA on behalf of the Federal Government. According to a statement from the agency, the 102 returnees comprised...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has arrived in Paris, France, preparatory to the Summit on New Global Financing Pact, which will be hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. President Tinubu was received at the airport by Ambassador Kayode Laro and other top government officials from...
The Former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has said that Nigeria remains committed to bring terrorists to justice. Mon it Monguno made this known at the Session II Third United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States at UN headquarters in New...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Centre for Crisis Communication, CCC, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) with the mandate to engage in crisis information and communication management, has expressed its heartfelt delight over the appointment of the National Security Adviser (NSA), and a new set of Service Chiefs and the...
The Federal Government has exempted Boards of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) from the recent directive on dissolution of governing boards of certain categories of government institutions. Mr Willie Bassey, Director Information, Office of the...
Anambra government on Tuesday warned brothel operators to stop using underage girls to run their businesses or face prosecution. Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, gave the warning in Awka on Tuesday while reacting to the rescue of 12 such girls from brothels in the state capital...
The Federal Government on Tuesday set a new deadline of July 15 to complete repairs and re-open both Eko and Apongbon bridges to traffic.. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, gave the hint in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, has disowned one Mazi Okwu Nnabuike who parades himself as the President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide. Ohan The group said that Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide was not known to the organs and structures of the group, adding that it was a strange...
A 57-year-old woman, Mrs Jamiu Sikirat of Ile-Agunko compound, Adeta area of Ilorin, Kwara, has reportedly fell into a domestic well and died. The incident occurred on Monday evening in Ilorin and the deceased was recovered by the brigade of the state Fire Service. A report said the woman...
The Federal Government with the Support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday repatriated 102 more Nigerian irregular migrants who were released from detention facilities in Libya.nigerians Amb. Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Borno State Council has Congratulated Mallam Isa Umar Gusau and Hon Baba Sheik Haruna on their reappointment as Special Adviser SA Communications & PR Strategy and Senior Special Assistant SSA on Media respectively to his Excellency Governor Babagana Zulum....
The United Nations (UN) has allocated $20 million to ramp up humanitarian response to problem of food security and nutrition crisis in North A statement on Tuesday by Ann Weru, the Head of Public Information United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Nigeria, said the fund...
Gov. Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta on Monday attributed his emergence as governor of the state to God. The governor stated this at a reception after his inauguration’s thanksgiving and 60th birthday anniversary service at the Living Faith Church, in Asaba. He said it was God’s favour that brought him...