The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign rally in Borno state has been disrupted by notorious thugs.
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The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), has assured Nigerians that it is taking measures to end the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in the country. Its Acting State Coordinator in Katsina, Engr. Abdullahi Musa-Mohammed, gave the assurance on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says only strong partnerships and coordination among African countries can guarantee the mobilisation of resources required for a just energy transition. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the vice president sent a recorded message to an African Union event...
A broken down truck loaded with N1,000 notes has been spotted on social media and alleged to have emanated from the Northern part of the country as people are seen speaking in Hausa. The development comes in the wake of plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has tasked the Attah Igala, His Royal Majesty, Matthew Ogwuche-Akpa in Kogi, on the need to educate his subjects on peaceful electioneering campaign for 2023 general election. Dr Hale Gabriel-Longpet, the INEC Kogi Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), said this when he paid a...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – No fewer than 80 shops have been destroyed in the chemical market fire explosion in Onitsha Head Bridge in Anambra State. The fire outbreak also destroyed goods and properties worth millions of naira. The Director/Fire Chief of Anambra Fire Services, Mr Martin Agbili, stated...
The Prison Decongestion programm of the Ministry of Justice has resulted in the release of 12,000 inmates across correctional centres in the country since 2016. Secretary of the Prison Decongestion Committee of the ministry, Mrs Patricia Ayoola Daniels made this known in Abuja on Tuesday at the 2023 budget...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Nigerian journalists have been urged to always observe the ethics of journalism profession in order to maintain their integrity and dignity as professionals of the fourth estate of the realm. The Director of Radio and Public Relations, University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Professor Danjuma Gambo...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Ahead of next week’s Nigerian Economic Summit, an annual event where the public and private sector stakeholders deliberate on developmental issues, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, says, focusing on few pressing national issues should be the objective of the meeting this year. “Sometimes we...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana on Tuesday asked the Federal Government to stop provoking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in a dispute over wages. Mr Falana, speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the lecturers should be paid their full salaries for months...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says overwhelming flooding has affected no fewer than 27.7 million children across 27 countries worldwide. According to the UN agency, the number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia, Pakistan and northeast Bangladesh is the highest in over 30 years. UNICEF, in statement...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday, commenced the tracking of 10 constituency projects awarded at over N355 million in Sokoto State. The investigation on the projects status is being conducted under Phase 5 of the ICPC Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking (CEPT) currently...
Some residents of Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital have expressed worry over the sudden upward adjustment in the pump price of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) in the state. In a visit to some filling stations by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, the product is sold between N200 and...
DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra Command says the police was yet to be furnished with the casualty rate at the fire explosion in the chemical market in Onitsha. Ikenga stated this on Tuesday in a telephone with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha while...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has renamed the State’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry to the Ministry of Industry. The change of name was approved at the Executive Council Meeting of the State Government. This was announced in a statement signed by Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, the Secretary to Anambra...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Participants mobilizing Borno State stakeholders to develop transitional justice and reconciliation policy recommendations in the North East Nigeria have recommended that there should be advocacy and dialogue on the need to accept repentant insurgents back to their ancestral homes. They also recommended that government...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar on Tuesday defended the 2023 budget proposal of N21.1 billion before the House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties, headed by Hon. Suleiman Samaila. The Permanent Secretary, who was accompanied by top management staff of the State House, said...
Minister of Police Affairs, Mr Mohammed Dingyadi says the N871.3 billion earmarked for police operations in the 2023 budget is inadequate. Dingyadi made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when he featured at the 2023 budget defence session organised by the Senate and House of Representatives committees of the...
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairperson, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCom) on Tuesday appealed for an amendment of the act establishing the commission. She said this when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations on 2023 budget defence on Tuesday in Abuja. Dabiri-Erewa who lamented the...
Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Olamilekan Adegbite, says no provision was made to combat illegal mining in the ministry’s 2023 budget. The minister made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at a budget defence session organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Steel. He said N37.2...