By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has has reacted to the gas leak incident on the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company’s (NPDC), Well 6, in Sangama community, Bonny LGA of Rivers State. The incident which was reportedly observed on September 3, 2022 at about...
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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has called for discipline among political actors, as parties prepare for campaigns ahead of the 2023 general elections. Kukah made the call at the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation’s 2022 peace conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Kukah, a panellist at the conference electoral...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said that devastating flood has destroyed 14,496 farmlands across five local government areas of Kano State. The Director-General of the Agency, Mustapha Ahmed-Habib made the disclosure on Tuesday during a damage assessment tour in the affected communities in Warawa and Wudil LGAs of...
Nigeria remains an attractive investment destination of West Africa and other parts of the world, Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has said. .Bagudu made this known when the Chairman of WACOT Rice Company, Alhaji Faruk Gumel visited the governor at the Government House, Birnin Kebbi on Tuesday. The governor...
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Tuesday inaugurated 2022 anti-corruption shadow report on progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 in Nigeria. SDG 16 is about peace, justice and strong institutions. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the SDGs Shadow Report...
The Ondo Government says it has carried out a mass burial of 496 unclaimed corpses at the Akure and Ondo morgues of the University of Medical Science Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH). The Special Adviser (SA) to the State Governor on Health, Prof. Dayo Faduyile, said this on Tuesday in Akure...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said the biggest challenge the nation was facing today was on national unity. Osinbajo stated this at a one-day National Unity Conference organised by the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (AANI) in Abuja. The News Agency of...
President Muhammadu Buhari and some Nigerian political leaders were among world leaders that attended the opening of the General Debate of the 77th UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama and...
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure conduct of free, fair and credible elections in Cross River. The Governor gave the challenge on Wednesday in Calabar when he received the new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Dr Alalibo...
People of Mariga town of Bariga Local Government Area, Niger state are searching for more than 500 buried corpses suspected to have been washed away by Floods. This was disclosed by the Chief Imam of Mariga Central Mosque, Alhaji Alhassan Na’ibi while speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of candidates contesting for the presidency in the 2023 general elections. This is according to a circular released by the electoral body on Tuesday in Abuja. The INEC circular also included the candidates’ state of origin, age, qualifications,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that 7 million Nigerians who pre-registered in the nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise suspended on the 31st of July 2022, were NOT deliberately denied the opportunity to complete their registration. The clarification came on the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the entertainment industry in celebrating juju music maestro and multi-instrumentalist, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, better known as King Sunny Ade, who turns 76 on September 22, 2022. President Buhari’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday...
Prof. Bolaji Owosanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practice and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has urged traditional rulers, religious leaders and Civil Society Organisations to support government in fighting corruption in Nigeria. Owosanoye made the remarks during a sensitisation dialogue with traditional rulers, religious leaders and civil society organisations on...
Dr Babatunde Omotosho, an alumnus of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), has won the 2021 Adam Smith Business School Prize for PhD Excellence in Economics. This is contained in the Unilorin Bulletin Tuesday edition. Omotosho, who is currently an Assistant Director in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently...
The Police Command in Katsina State has arrested three suspected armed robbers who specialise in using charms to break houses in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, stated this in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina. He said,...
The House of Representatives has summoned the Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Okolieaboh Sylva for failing to lay the 2020 audit reports of Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of Government Rep. Oluwole Oke, Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts, issued the summoned on Tuesday in Abuja at the...
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has commenced investigation into alleged shooting and causing explosion by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Babura Local Government Area of the state. The House on Sept. 5, set up five-member Fact Finding Committee to investigate the cause of the explosion...
There are many reasons as to why five Federal Commissioners of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) have ‘declared war’ against the Bureau’s Chairman, Prof. Mohammed Isah. But some insiders at CCB told PRNigeria that the rift between the Commissioners and Prof. Isah is totally unconnected with issues around...
residential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has been accused of lacking originality by promising to do what the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has already put in place. Making this accusation, the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that Obi’s...