By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council, for facilitating and managing the 2023 transition programme. the President also signed the Executive Order No. 14 of 2023 on the Facilitation and Management of the Presidential Transitions. This is contained in...
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The Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr Garba Abari has expressed confidence that the 2023 general elections will hold as scheduled, in spite of the prevailing socio-economic challenges in the nation. Abari made this known in a statement issued by NOA Assistant Director of Press, Paul Odenyi in Abuja...
By OGONNAYA UMEHAM, Abuja – As part of activities to ensure huge participation of women in the 2023 Women’s World Day of prayer, the President, North-Central Zone, Pastor Deborah Adaji lead her team of Ambassadors to pay a courtesy visit to Heads of Churches recently in Abuja. The visit...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A constitutional lawyer, Mr. Fidelis Onyebueke, has charged Nigerians to vote the country back to themselves by choosing a right candidate during the forthcoming elections. Reacting to the current crisis in the banking and petroleum industries in the country, Onyebueke noted that if a...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is almost 90 per cent ready for the conduct of the 2023 general election. Mr Auwal Mashi, the Kaduna INEC Administrative Secretary said this on Thursday at a stakeholders meeting in Mellinium Hope, Kaduna. Mashi said that the commission held a...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered the closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the February 25 and March 11 general elections. The NUC, in a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres,...
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara said he and his colleagues took the Federal Government to the Supreme Court over the new naira swap policy to save the country. The three state governors of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara dragged the Federal Government to the Supreme Court seeking a restraining order...
Destitute in Kaduna who rely on begging for survival say they have been turned to ‘PoS Operators’ as a result of the prevailing cash-squeeze. Explaining their ‘newly- found’ status to a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the beggars said most people now gave them old Naira...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on Nigerians to shun all kinds of protests ahead of the 2023 general election. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC made the call in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Prof. Akintola said: “The Central Bank...
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...
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...