The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has promised to support the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to boost Nigeria’s image abroad. The Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Yakub Buba (APC-Adamawa) made the pledge at an oversight function to the ministry headquarters on Tuesday, in Abuja. ”I want to...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Middle Belt Journalists Forum (MBJF) has appealed for calm and the return to democratic norms in the Plateau State House of Assembly. The MBJF made the appeal on Wednesday in a press statement signed by its President, Jonathan IPAA and National Secretary, Mrs...
More people have been confirmed killed and more survivors rescued hours after a high-rise building collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State. Recalled that the incident which occurred on Monday afternoon along Wesley Road in the commercial hub of the nation. While four persons were killed and five...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with the Nigerian Mission in Tripoli, on Tuesday successfully repatriated 162 Nigerians stranded in Libya. Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has called for cooperation and support for journalists in performance of their constitutional duties. Mr. Ojukwu made this call in Abuja on Tuesday in commemoration of the 2021 International Day to End Impunity for Crime Against Journalists (IDEICJ). He...
Retired Justice Suleiman Galadima, the Chairman of the Independent Investigating Panel on Human Rights Violation by defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), has urged the police to live up to its responsibility and cooperate with the panel. Galadima stated this in Abuja on Tuesday, at the hearing of the case...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of former Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr Abba Sayyadi Ruma. In a condolence message issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Tuesday in Abuja, the president described Ruma as “one of...
The Kano State Government will purchase 100,000 units of free television Set-Top-Boxes (STBs) for indigent and poor households in the state at subsidised rate, Gov Abdullahi Ganduje, has said. Ganduje made the disclosure at the official launch of Digital Switch Over (DSO) for Kano State, on Tuesday, in Kano....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says 1.5 trillion dollars (about N615.6trillion) is the cumulative estimated amount needed by Nigeria over a ten-year period, to achieve an appreciable level of the National Infrastructure Stock. President Buhari gave the figure on Tuesday in Glasgow at a COP 26...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has arrived in Akwa, the capital of Anambra State, ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state. Upon arrival, Prof. Mahmood immediately went into consultation with the Anambra State Commissioner of...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland pledged that Nigeria would cut its emissions to net zero by 2060. Delivering his national statement at COP26 Leaders’ Summit, the President said that attaining national and global climate change goals will require adequate and sustained technical and financial support to developing...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has backed Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu on the order for the probe of all that led to the collapse of the 21-storey building on Gerald Road, Ikoyi. He said the government must...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd has called on the general public not to engage in panic buying of petroleum products during and beyond the forth coming yuletide celebration. The Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Garba Deen Muhammad, who stated this in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Death toll from a 21-story building under construction which collapsed in Ikoyi Area of Lagos State, on Monday, rose to fifteen on Tuesday as authorities intensified search and rescue efforts. While four persons were killed and five others rescued as of Monday night, the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade has charged Surveyors to take their rightful place in the march towards sustainable economic development of the country, adding that they are critical to the industrialisation of Nigeria. The governor made the charge while declaring open the fourth...
As the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) celebrates 20 years of operation in Nigeria, the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has described it as the mainstay of the global body’s humanitarian response in the North East. Speaking at a ceremony late Monday, Kallon described the UN agency...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to establish a specialized team of prosecutors to facilitate the effective investigation and the prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against journalists and other media workers to enable Nigeria to fulfill its regional and international...
The Nigerian Hunters Council (NHC) has renewed its commitment towards detecting and combating crime and criminality in the country, as it seeks official recognition as a security agency. Commander-General of the council, Joshua Osatimehin, stated this in Abuja on Monday, at the end of a five-day capacity training for...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ahmed Idris, has called on the Association of Bursars of Nigerian Universities (ABNU) to put in place a think tank that will generate ideas to enhance effective management of the nation’s treasury. Speaking at the opening ceremony...
The General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Mr Gbolahan Oki, says the owner of the collapsed 21-storey building, under construction in Ikoyi, was given approval to construct only 15 floors. Oki told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that the owner of the property has...