ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) says it is deploying no fewer than 858 regular and special marshals for the Easter Special Patrol Operation. The Sector Commander, FRSC, Bauchi State, Yusuf Abdullahi, who disclosed this on Friday said the operation would be from 13th to...
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Rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) on Friday in Ikeja urged the Federal Government to extend Thursday’s presidential pardon granted some top Nigerians, to people serving terms for petty offences. Falana made the call at the 1st anniversary of late Afenifere’s spokesman, Yinka Odumakin’s Lecture and Book Presentation. He...
The Director, Health Services, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Rasheed Odunola, has advised people with Tuberculosis (TB) to avoid sleeping in the same room with their loved ones. Odunola, who gave this advice while speaking with newsmen at the university on Friday, said this would reduce the...
Eni, the Italian parent company to Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), says it has fixed the breached 24-inch gas line at Okaka in Yenagoa which crippled its gas export. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident on the gas pipeline, operated by its Nigerian unit, NAOC,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has called on African leaders to work together towards developing common and effective strategies for improving emergency management response systems. President Buhari said this would help significantly in reducing the human and economic impacts of natural disasters and impede climate change....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Friday donated N5O million to the Kaduna State Government for onward distribution to the victims of the recent Abuja – Kaduna train attack. A statement by Head, NGF Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja on...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Johannesburg – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, said today he was “saddened and unspeakably devastated” by the flood disasters in Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa that have so far claimed 341 lives. Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 341 people in South Africa’s eastern...
A former Military Governor Kaduna state, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar(rtd) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to suspend its plan to conduct a National census April 2023. Colonel Umar (rtd) who is the Chairman, Movement for Unity and Progress,(MUP) described report on the planned census as shocking He...
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has suspended the Permanent Secretary, Office of the Head of Service, Mr Martin Uguru, indefinitely for extortion of civil servants. The suspension which took effect from April 1, 2022, is contained in a statement issued in Abakaliki on Friday by the Principal Secretary to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has felicitated with Christians on the celebration of Easter, urging them to emulate Jesus Christ by making sacrifices that will advance the course of development. In an Easter Message, signed by Governor’s Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri,...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has further suspended Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) in all 54 additional centres created to facilitate the registration of voters across Imo . Mr Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee,made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abuja...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Council of States for granting state pardon to former Governors of Plateau and Taraba States, Senator Joshua Dariye and Rev. Jolly Nyame. Dariye and Nyame were serving jail...
The United States has approved the sale of military equipment to Nigeria worth $997 million after US lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which announced the sale of the helicopters and related defence systems to the Nigerian military on Thursday, said the weapons...
By EDDY OCHIGBO, Kaduna – In a bid to enhance participatory democratic governance and quality service delivery at the local government level in the country, Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a United Kingdom-funded governance programme, during the week, engaged media executives in Kaduna, to mobilise support for...
As Christians celebrate Good Friday, Bishop Emmanuel Badejo of the Catholic Diocese of Oyo has urged all Nigerians to use the opportunity to repent and take positive actions toward God and humanity. Badejo made the call in a statement he made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Hamman Madu has been appointed as the new Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) Managing Director by President Muhammadu Buhari. The outgoing MD, Ahmed Dangiwa, took over from Richard Esin, who served in an acting capacity after the tenure of Gimba Ya’u Kumo. The President also approved the reconstitution...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPC) says the ongoing Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project will be completed by the first quarter of 2023. Malam Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, NNPC said this on Thursday while inspecting the AKK gas project site at Abaji, Abuja along with some NNPC...
The Senate has passed the revised 2022 N17.3trillion budget. This followed the adoption of the report of Senate Committee on Appropriation at Thursday’s plenary. Presenting the report, Sen. Barau Jibrin, the Chairman of the committee said that the budget was made up of N7 trillion recurrent expenditure and N5...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Benue State Government has released over N1.5 billion naira to facilitate implementation of the State COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme, B-CARES. Governor Samuel Ortom made this known Thursday, while launching the commencement of the programme which featured distribution of cheques to...
Intending railway passengers should get their National Identity Number (NIN) ready as it will be a requirement from May. Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, stated in Abuja on Thursday that the NIN would be needed to enhance profiling of passengers. This, he explained,...