By HARUNA AHMED, Birnin Kebbi – Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Abubakar Bagudu has approved the release of N44.4 million for payment of compensation to owners of lands acquired for the construction of solar power plant in the state. The Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Mahmud Muhammad – Warra, revealed...
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Today is Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Nigeria, an annual event commemorated to celebrate the nation’s servicemen and fallen heroes. The event, celebrated on January 15 each year, also honours veterans of World War I and II, as well as the Nigerian Civil War. It is a day set...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the conduct of six outstanding constituencies by-elections in four states for Feb. 26. The commission announced this in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee on Friday evening in Abuja. Okoye...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser of the President, Media and Publicity, Friday in Abuja, stressed the need for national unity, saying Nigeria needs peacemakers who will entrench nationalism and patriotism in the polity, and not spoilers. Adesina spoke when he received a merit award...
The Kebbi State Government has released N6 billion for the payment of workers’ gratuity who retired from service between 2017 and 2021. This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Head of Service, Alhaji Safiyanu Garba-Bena issued in Birnin Kebbi on Saturday. He said: “Gov. Abubakar Bagudu...
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has released a calendar for the issuance of bonds for the first quarter of 2022 (Q1-2022). The calendar shows that on Jan. 16, DMO will issue a N70 billion to N80 billion, four years and 20 years Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bond, with...
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Mr Emmanuel Jime, on Friday said the council would pursue incentives that would boost indigenous shipowners operations. Jime said this when Dr Mkgeorge Onyung, President, Shipowners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), paid him a courtesy visit in Lagos. Jime, also Chairman, Nigeria Fleet...
The Delta Chapter of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), has tasked the National Assembly to effect the needed change in the amended Electoral Bill to enable the President to assent to it. This is contained in a communiqué jointly singed by ZLP State Chairman, Mr Emeka Nkwoala, and the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has issued the Federal Government three week ultimatum to meet up with its demands or face nation wide industrial action by members of the union. The union also said that the neglect and poor funding of...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), the umbrella body of registered political parties in Nigeria, on Friday elected the Cross River State’s Chairman of Labour Party, Ambassador Ogar Osim, the new Chairman of IPAC in the state. Osim replaces Anthony Bissong Attah of YPP who had...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Calabar – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has Petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the alleged fraud, mismanagement of Public funds, embezzlement, corruption and sharp practices, against EMOSTRADE ENGINEERING LIMITED for abandoning the ₦1.2 Billion Ikom Specialist Hospital Project in...
The Federal University of Lafia (FULafia), Nasarawa State, has confirmed the abduction of four students of the institution by gunmen. Mr Abubakar Ibrahim, Head of Information and Public Relations Unit of the university, confirmed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Lafia. Ibrahim said that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed confidence that the nation will overcome the prevailing situation of insecurity in parts of the country. Speaking during a visit on Friday to the State House, Abuja by the Grand Khalifa (overall head) of the Tijjaniyya Islamic Movement World-Wide, President Buhari said the present...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Sokoto State Chapter, has resolved to join the planned Jan. 27 nationwide protest against fuel price hike The national headquarters of the NLC had directed state chapters to sensitise and mobilise members on proposed protest to oppose a planned increase in the price of...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri- A political pressure group, Imo Solidarity Front (ISF), has accused the Imo State Government, led by Senator Hope Uzodinma of being responsible for the recent removal of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. The group stated this in...
By MARK JANG, Jos – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Plateau Command has arrested three persons with a pistol and 12 grams of cannabis sativa in Jos. In a statement on Friday, the spokesman of the command, Mr Dan Simon-Peter, said that the suspects were arrested on...
The Borno State Police command has denied reports that some policemen were abducted by the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) at the Mobile Police Training School in limankara, Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA) of the state . Mr Audu Umar, the state Commissioner of Police disclosed this...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has sworn in a journalist, Timothy Ogbang Akwaji as the state’s new Head of Service. He is the first journalist to be so appointed. Akwaji, who is the first journalist to be appointed as the head of service, was...
A former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Lawman Duruji has regained his freedom from kidnappers. Duruji was reportedly abducted on Saturday in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the kidnappers had demanded N15million as ransom for his release. But there was...
Boko Haram terrorists have abducted an unspecified number of mobile policemen at the police mobile training school in limankara Gwoza local government area of Borno State, the hometown of Senator Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army. Information available to The PUNCH revealed that the insurgent fighters attacked...