The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) killed 381 people during the Yuletide “Operation Zero” tolerance to crashes across the nation. The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Dauda Biu, said this during a press briefing on Friday in Abuja that the Corps recorded a total of 626...
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The U.S Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Mary Leonard, has reassured of supporting Nigeria toward ensuring that the 2023 general election is free, fair and credible. Leonard said this at the 20th Daily Trust Dialogue with the theme “Interrogating the 2023 Presidential Agenda” in Abuja. She said that the U.S...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint and Matriculation Board(JAMB) says it Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, does not own or operate any social media account and neither has he asked anybody to open or manage one on his behalf. A LinkedIn account purported to be the account of JAMB Registrar has been...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – After the recent inauguration of an Endowment Fund’s Board of Trustees for the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on Thursday declared that the task for NIPSS “is to determine how it will affect human history beginning with...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, is set to receive the 2022 Regulator of the Year Award at the highly-coveted Vanguard Personality of the Year Awards. Vanguard Newspaper Limited, the organizers of the event,...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has lost his eldest son, Hassan Abdullahi Sule. Hassan, died in the late hours of Thursday January 26, after a brief illness. The deceased, who got married in June last year was Governor Sule’s eldest son with his first...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend its January 31 deadline to phase out old notes in circulation in the country. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this when speaking with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja on his achievements and challenges...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Kastina says he believes history will be kind to his administration, going by the situation inherited on security and economy, and the difference that has been made. President Buhari, who inspected and commissioned, developmental projects in health, education, and...
A 13-year-old girl who went missing two weeks ago in Kaduna but ended up in Borno, has been reunited with her family. The girl was found wandering at the Borno Express Corporation terminus in Maiduguri and handed over to the Police. According to the spokesman of Borno Police Command,...
Olusegun Obasanjo, the former President of Nigeria, has advised the country’s leadership to deal with deep cultural and physiological problems to deepen democracy. Obasanjo gave the advice on Thursday during the 2023 Port Harcourt City International Conference in Port Harcourt. Obasanjo also commended the organisers of the conference for...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele if he fails to appear before its committee investigating the scarcity of the new naira at the Commercial banks. Some Nigerians...
The Federal Government said it foiled 66 attempts by hackers from Europe to compromise the virtual meetings of the Federal Executive Councils (FEC). Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami gave the revelation in Abuja at the 19th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) Administration Scorecard Series...
Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) at its Special Delegates Conference session holding in Kano has expunged National Orientation Agency (NOA) from its constitution. The special delegate session on Thursday at an event centre in Kano, presided by the National President of NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo took the decision ,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has commenced a two-day official visit to Katsina State. During the visit, Buhari would commission some projects and inspect others executed by the administration of Gov. Aminu Masari. Some of the projects ready for commissioning include Kofar-Kaura and kofar-Kwaya underpass, Katsina Revenue House, among others. He...
The Federal Government says the solution to problems facing Ajaokuta Steel Company does not lie in the hands of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who supervised its questionable and failed concession. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai said this on Thursday in Abuja at the 19th edition...
Wild Africa Fund seeks collaboration to fight illegal wildlife trade Wild Africa Fund says it is seeking the partnership of the government, its agencies and the organised private sector in the fight against illegal wildlife trade in Nigeria and Africa at large. Mr Peter Knights, Founder/President, Wild Africa Fund,...
President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the provision of 538.05 million Dollars for the first phase of the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) for Nigeria programme. The facility was provided by the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Mr Femi Adesina, the...
As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is making finishing touches to the conduct of general elections, the commission says all ad hoc staff will be taken through the nitty gritty of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and all the electioneering processes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...
Imo State Government has declared Thursday and Friday as public holidays to enable workers to collect their Permanent Voter Cards at ward levels before the expiration of the deadline on Jan. 29. Owners of uncollected cards will thereafter go to INEC offices at local government secretariats to collect same....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has directed the State Ministry of Finance and The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation to liaise with the state owned Microfinance bank, Renaissance Microfinance Bank Limited, as a matter of urgency to ensure free collection of...