Four days into the earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border region, the reported death toll has risen to more than 16,000 people, according to Turkey news agency ANADOLU. The agency, which quoted the country’s disaster management agency, AFAD, announced that in Turkey, there were now 12,873 confirmed fatalities while 62,937...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The UNICEF Chief of Maiduguri Field Office, , Phuong T. Nguyen has amplified the achievements of the Global Partnership for Education Accelerated Funding project.. In her welcome address, during a media dialogue with journalists on Wednesday in Maidugiri, she said ,”Your presence here today...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has seized a total of 6,216 National Identity and Voter Cards from some migrants in 21 border states across the country. The Controller General of NIS (CGI), Isa Jere said this on Wednesday at a retreat for top management staff of the Service, in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Joe Ajaero on his emergence as the new president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The president, in a congratulatory message by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in Abuja, also hailed the National Executive Committee of...
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says it is on high alert and will identify, arrest and prevent foreigners from participating in the forthcoming 2023 elections.. The NIS Comptroller General, Isa Jere said this during an election retreat organised for NIS Zonal Coordinators and Command Comptrollers, on Wednesday in Abuja....
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday swore-in new executives, with Mr Joe Ajaero as the new president to lead the workers for the next four years. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajaero, former General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Union, was voted on...
The Federal Ministry of Education has approved the use of corporate/cape size hijab as part of the school uniform of female Muslim students in all the 112 Federal Unity Colleges, together with Federal Science and Technical Colleges. The approval was contained in a circular released by the Office of...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former governor of Cross Rivers, Donald Duke, are among the dignitaries to grace the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Federal Government College, Ilorin, on Feb. 18. The Chairperson, Local Organising Committee, Dr Banke Balogun, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of...
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, has revealed that his Ministry, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has registered about 1.6 million beneficiaries of the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP) on the e-Naira platform. The...
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled. Yakubu said this on Wednesday in Abuja when he fielded questions from State House Correspondents after he briefed the Federal Executive Council (FEC)on level of preparedness for the...
Some Nigerians, on Wednesday, lauded the Supreme Court’s ruling which invalidated the Feb. 10 deadline imposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the old N200, N500 and N1000 notes to cease to be legal tenders. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seven-member panel of the...
A fuel-laden tanker has exploded on Wednesday along the Ore-Benin Expressway in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was the second of such explosions in the area in nine days as a kerosene tanker also burst into flames there on Jan. 31 roasting its driver. Mr...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Governor Abdullahi Sule, of Nasarawa State, has stormed the Masaka branch of the Union Bank, where he directed banks in the state to make funds available to its customers. Gov Sule, gave the directive today when he stopped over while on his way to...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Former President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Nigeria, which will be holding Africa’s largest democratic exercise later this month when it holds general elections on 25 February 2023. Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia...
Allow old notes and new notes co-exists- El Rufai tackles FG
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily stopped the withdrawal of old Naira Notes from Feb. 10 A seven-member panel led by Justice John Okoro, halted the move in a ruling in an exparte application brought by three northern states of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara. The three states had specifically...
The outgoing President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, has said that the organised labour is seeking an end to the nation’s fuel importation policy as it will lead to a reduction in the prices of fuel. Wabba gave the hint on Tuesday in Abuja at...
The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno, has assured Nigerians that the 2023 general elections would be conducted in an atmosphere devoid of rancor. Monguno gave the assurance during his meeting with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and leadership of security agencies in...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has donated the sum of N70 million to families of the three slain police officers and one injured Officer at the Rumuokoro flyover bridge in Port Harcourt. Wike on Tuesday presented the cheque of N20 million to each widow of the three slain officers...
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Tuesday barricaded the main entrance gate to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) office complex in Benin to protest the scarcity of new naira notes in the country. The protesters chanted solidarity songs, calling on the bank to make the new...