Sixteen Women Cooperative Societies in Sokoto State have benefited from SMEDAN’s N5 million grant disbursed under its Women in Self Employment Programme (WISE-P). Sokoto State Manager of SMEDAN, Mr Muazu Barau, said on Friday in Sokoto that N312,500 was disbursed to each of the 16 groups. He spoke as...
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Seventy Eight Nigerians who are on scholarship to study various courses have arrived in Russia, the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow has said. The students, who are part of the second batch of the 2020/2021 academic year scholarship under the Russia-Nigeria Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA), arrived Vnukovo International airport, on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has said that a total of 4,104 cases of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) have been recorded in the state between six months (January – July, 2021). The state government also said the non availability of gender desk in most...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for accreditation during elections has come to stay. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, said this on Friday at the one-day Implementation meeting for the...
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have threatened to embark on another industrial action following a three-week ultimatum issued by the union last month. They, however, called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with the union. The lecturers...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the management of the National Human Rights Commission of his continuous support in its efforts to get closer to the people in order to assuage their grievances. The President gave the assurance when he received in audience the Governing Council of the Commission in...
The Police Command in Osun has arrested one Ibrahim Abdulazeez, 30, who allegedly purchased a Toyota Camry 2010 model for N2,650 from a car dealer in Osogbo, Osun State. The Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, while parading some suspects at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Friday, said the...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigerians need increase access to information to enhance their wellbeing and knowledge for development of the country. Jonathan said this shortly after being honoured with a Special Recognition Award at the 10th anniversary of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Acts awards night on Friday...
Some tenants in Makurdi, the Benue capital, have decried the sudden and astronomical increase in tenancy fees within the city in recent years. The tenants, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Friday, appealed to the state government to regulate rents and mode of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – As the globe marks the World Human Rights Day, the Executive Director, Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development, Hajiya Hamsatu Allamin has called on Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State to be more committed, responsive and proactive to the support and assistance of the...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said there is an increase in the number of complaints of abuses, particularly as it concerns rape of women and abuse of children in Abia. Mrs Uche Nwokocha, the Abia Coordinator of NHRC, disclosed this on Friday in Umuahia on the commemoration...
Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of former Governor of Adamawa, Murtala Nyako and others until Jan. 24. Justice Abang fixed the date, following the appeal filed by the ex-governor and other defendants at the Court of Appeal, asking the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has dispatched a high-level delegation, made up of the heads of the nation’s intelligence and security services to Sokoto and Katsina States in response to the recent spike in bandit activities. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and...
Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Gas & President Nigerian Gas Association , Ed Ubong has called for urgent strategy to grown Nigeria’s capacity in the gas sub-sector. This, according to him, would ensure that gas is used to spur industrial development across all parts of the country. “We need to begin...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, has commiserated with its Member, the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole, over the death of his wife. The late Pastor (Mrs) Zainab Esther Kolawole died after a brief illness at a...
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) says the activities of the defunct Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) do not fall under the operational purview of the commission. Mr Gbenga Komolafe, the Chief Executive Officer, NUPRC, made the clarification in a statement issued on Friday in Lagos. Komolafe said the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the assassination of the Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, by unknown gunmen on Thursday evening. President Buhari, in a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, described the killing of the commissioner as...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – First Lady of Nigeria, Dr. Aisha Buhari has called on well-meaning Nigerians and private sector organizations to complement government efforts especially on projects that seek to improve the health and wellbeing of the citizens of this country. Mrs. Buhari made the call on Thursday...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has named members of the interim management team for the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) Plc. A statement issued by Amina Tukur Othman, Head, Public Communications of BPE, listed the interim management team to include: Bada Akinwumi –...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other world leaders in mourning India’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 others killed in a helicopter crash. The 63-year-old defense chief was travelling with his wife and other senior officers in the Russian-made...