By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The United Nations has released the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) report, which reveal that in 2023, an estimate of 339 million people across the world will need humanitarian assistance. According to the report, about 230 million most vulnerable people in 69 countries of the...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed Monday, 12 December, 2022 to Sunday, 22 January, 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs in all the 774 Local Government Offices of the Commission throughout the Federation. The decision was taken after the...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra on Friday presented appointment letters to 5,000 newly recruited teachers in the state. Soludo, while presenting appointment letters to no fewer than 5,000 newly recruited teachers in Awka said that the future of youths of Anambra lie in the hand of teachers. The governor...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its office in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State undergoing renovation was attacked on Thursday. INEC National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja....
President Muhammadu Buhari says he will try his best within the remaining time he has in office to ensure that the country’s investment drive is given the needed boost. The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), Saratu Umar, revealed this to State House correspondents on Friday in...
Nigerian singer/songwriter, Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has called on the youths across the country to protect their votes at their polling units during the 2023 general elections. Oputa made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of...
The National Judicial Council (NJC) has set up high powered probe panels to investigate alleged gross misconduct allegations brought against 15 Judges of the Federal and State High Courts. The probe panels are to determine the culpability of the Judges in the various petitions filed against them by individuals...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is seeking the nation’s judiciary to be part of Information Communications Technology (ICT) trends, whose impact has now affected ways that justice is delivered across the world. The leadership of the Commission made the call during a workshop organized...
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it woul sustain clean up of the voters’ register to curtail underage, ineligible voting. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Friday. He said: “We are making efforts to make sure we eradicate...
The Government of the Royal Kingdom of Norway has renewed its funding cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), targeted at assisting over 300,000 most vulnerable persons in Nigeria. The Ambassador of Norway to Nigeria, Knut Eiliv Lein, said this on Friday at the...
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu says the commission is already working to resolve election result issues that may arise from blind network spots. Professor Yakubu stated this at a One-Day Strategic Interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Friday. The INEC chairman’s reaction followed reservations...
Presidency says nine oil-producing states have so far received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account between 1999 and 2021. According to a statement on Friday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, the affected states...
The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has assured Nigerians that the prevailing fuel crisis ravaging various parts of the country would soon disappear. Its Coordinator in Delta, Mr Victor Ohwodiasa, gave the assurance when he led a team of the regulatory authority on an unscheduled inspection...
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted an appointment from the African Agricultural Technology Foundation(AATF), as Africa’s Ambassador for Agricultural Technology. This is contained in a press statement issued by Alex Abutu, the AATF Communications Officer and made available in Abuja on Friday. Abutu disclosed that the announcement was...
The Federal Government has intervened in 83 internal road networks in Tertiary Federal Institutions across the country. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola made this known on Friday in Uyo during the inauguration and handing over of 1.2 km internal road constructed by the federal government to the...
The Kogi House of Assembly on Friday began probe into an alleged fraudulent land dealing and encroachment by one Godwin Isah in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mrs Sefi Okpekete-Bajeh, a Lokoja-based businesswoman, had petitioned the house on what she described as “fraudulent land...
A book on border security has been unveiled at the National Institute for Security Studies (NISS), as its contribution to the search for lasting peace and stability in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the book titled “Manning the Gates,” was written in honour of...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – A United Kingdom based Organisation, the Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSH Association UK) has bestowed an Honorary Fellowship Award of the Association on the Director-General/Chief Executive of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Sir Joseph N. Ari. According to the Association during the presentation...