By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The National Youth Service Corps’ Freedom Of Information (FOI) Act Vanguard, Kwara State Chapter, earlier today trooped en-masse to the streets of Ilorin, the state capital, to conduct its quarterly Freedom Of Information (FOI) Act sensitization. The sensitization spanned from the fact that most...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday in Gusau, issued Certificates of Return to Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare, Governor-elect of the state and his deputy, Malam Mani Mumuni. Prof. Sani Kalla, INEC National Commissioner in charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara, also issued certificates of return to the 24 elected...
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has resigned from office. Information obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Abuja on Friday from unconfirmed sources, said the minister has submitted his resignation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the sources, Sylva has intention to...
A member of the House of Representatives (APC-Sokoto), Mr Ibrahim Al-Mustapha says all Nigerians will smile with the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as the new President of Nigeria. “Glad tidings are therefore beckoning on Nigerians with Tinubu as successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. “By the special grace of...
Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa has directed the immediate recruitment of 32 medical doctors to boost the state’s health sector. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recruits are among the 60 students sponsored by the state government in 2016 to study medicine in China. Briefing newsman...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, has been selected as the Lead Speaker at an international symposium on Africa Ocean Blue Economy holding in South Africa in May. This is contained in a statement by Mr Patrick Agbambu, President/Chief Executive,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated a long-time aide, associate and confidant, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Household Matters, Sarki Abba, as he clocked 65 on March 30. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday in Abuja, the...
Hundreds of Abia retirees on Thursday danced through the major streets of Umuahia, clad in all white, in celebration of the election of Dr. Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) as Governor. The jubilant senior citizens, including the strong and frail-looking men and women, displayed placards, expressing their...
Niger Governor elect, Umar Bago of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Bago was declared winner of the governorship election in the state held on March 18. Others that received certificates on Thursday in Minna are the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A total of 50 journalists from Nasarawa State, have been trained by Afropolitan Media Limited in collaboration with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), on Nigerian Tax Administration. The one-day sensitisation workshop took place on Wednesday in Mararaba, Karu Local Government Area of Nassarawa...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, a humanitarian services and Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that support government and organizational peace building process has launched its project publications on the evaluation of its general research surveys and transitional justice projects on mobilizing Borno stakeholders to...
NPA laud President Buhari for signing copyright Act into law
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Independent National Electoral Commission, (NEC), Borno State on Thursday presented Certificates of Return to Borno State Governor-elect, Babagana Zulum and his Deputy, Hon Umar Usman Kadafur after their successful re-election. Also presented with Certificates of Return include the 28 Borno State Assembly members...
Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu, Sokoto State Governor -elect, his deputy, Alhaji Idris Gobir and 30 members -elect of the State House of Assembly in the 2023 general elections on Thursday received their certificates of return from INEC. Presenting the certificates to the elected officials, Prof. Muhammad Kalla, the INEC National...
In its 2023 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) released recently, the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) said terrorist activities in Nigeria had dropped to their lowest since 2011. The 2023 GTI showed that Nigeria dropped to the eighth most terrorised country globally in 2022, from the sixth position it...
Mr Ade Omole, the Director, Diaspora Directorate of Nigeria’s President-Elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has assured the international community that Tinubu is ready to work with world leaders to better humanity. Omole, who oversees the foreign affairs of the President-elect, gave the assurance while speaking with the News Agency of...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has partnered with Afropolitan Media Limited to start a national sensitisation and capacity-building training programme for media professionals. The training programme became imperative following several reforms initiated by the FIRS under the leadership of its Executive Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Nami, and new challenges...
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and his Imo counterpart, Senator Hope Uzodimma would, among other dignitaries, headline the public presentation of Nigeria Heroes and Sheroes: Diary of a Journalist of Courage, a book authored by Mr. Ken Ugbechie, Publisher of Political Economist NG. The event slated for Thursday, April 6, 2023 at...
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, says the onus lies on Africans, at home and in the diaspora, to rewrite the narrative for a progressive Africa. Dabiri-Erewa said this at a joint world news conference ahead of the Global African Diaspora Symposium (GADS) on Wednesday...