The National Action Committee, African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) has emphasised the need to cascade down its activities to the subnational level with state governments playing a major role. Secretary of the committee, Mr Francis Anatogu, said this on Monday during a joint news conference with the Nigeria...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Damaturu – Yobe State Government has resolved to deduct 10 per cent of November basic salaries of its civil servants as their contributions to the current efforts to revive the education sector in the state. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji Muhammad Lamin,...
The Police Command in Ebonyi, on Monday rescued two newborn babies from suspected child traffickers. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Loveth Odah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki that the babies were rescued by a team of local vigilantes and Ebubeagu Security...
Premium Times Books will on Tuesday, November 23, host a book presentation event to launch the Nigerian edition of “The Sokoto Caliphate”. Organisers say the event, scheduled for the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, will be chaired by the Emir of Zazzau, Ahmed Nuhu Bamali. Several other Nigerian...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Monday released the 2021 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) results. During a press briefing in Abuja, the Nigeria National Office of the examination body, Patrick Areghan, said this year’s exam recorded a better success than the previous...
The Kano State Fire Service said fire had destroyed 41 temporary shops at Kasuwar Kurmi (Yan’ littafai) Market in Kano. This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, on Monday in Kano. “We received a distress from Malam...
The Cameroonian Government, through its representative from the Ministry of Public Service and Administration Reforms, is seeking to model Nigeria’s e-government success story. The representative said this in Abuja on Monday during a visit to Nigeria, to inspect the depth of e-government implementation, developed and implemented by the Korean...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has increased registration fees for school candidates for West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from N13,950 to N18,000, beginning from 2022. WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, made this known while announcing the release of results of the 2021...
The project monitoring committee in Ikot-Nkebre community in Calabar Municipality has appealed to the World Bank not to abandon their erosion work at the Agro-field and the community road that was destroyed while reclaiming the gully in the community. Speaking to journalists in Calabar, Mr Emmanuel Ewa, Secretary of...
President Muhammadu Buhari says peace has become an elusive subject that affects development in many regions of Africa. The Nigerian leader stated this when he declared open the 9th General Assembly of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the activities of...
The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has described meter bypass and illegal connection amongst others as the biggest economic threats to the company. KEDCO MD, Dr. Jamil Isyaku-Gwamna, warned that the company would no longer be lenient with anyone found engaging in these acts within its franchise areas. This...
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Assistant Inspector General of Police Zone 6, Usman Gomna has warned applicants to be wary of fraudsters and avoid falling prey to swindlers who might take advantage of the exercise to defraud unsuspecting applicants. AIG Gomna stressed that the screening exercise is free of...
Agriculture experts and stakeholders from South-South Nigeria have called for sustainability in local rice production in order to render imported rice totally unattractive to consumers. Respondents from the geopolitical region also assert that production and consumption of local rice is beneficial to the country as the Nigerian rice is...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ogun- No fewer than two persons have died in an accident involving two vehicles on the Ore-Benin Highway on Sunday. Ogun Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr Ahmed Umar, said on Monday that eight other persons sustained various degrees of injuries in the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A Federal lawmaker representing Cross River South Senatorial District, Senator Gershom Bassey has called on the Federal Government to urgently see the need of establishing one specialist hospital in each of the six geo-political zones of the country. This according to Senator Bassey would boost...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Barely one year after the death of Lauretta Amaka Ndoma-Egba, the former Senate leader and Chairman Board of Niger Delta Commission (NDDC), Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said all is set to establish an academy in honour of his late wife, who died last year in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has been conferred with Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LLD), honoris causa by Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State. The University said Zulum was honoured for his “exceptional” performance since becoming Governor in 2019. The...
At least, 366 soldiers, policemen and members of the civilian joint task force were killed in ambushes laid by terrorists in the North-East and the North-West between 2019 and 2021. A breakdown of the figures released by SBM Intelligence states that 337 soldiers, 29 cops and civilian JTF members...
Some of the ships seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have begun to sink in waters across the country, while many of those temporarily and permanently forfeited by suspected corrupt persons are being damaged due to lack of maintenance. Sources in the know of the development at...
The Kogi State Government has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to apologise and retract a malicious statement that it kept N20 billion bailout fund meant to pay salaries in a commercial bank meant to yield interest. In a briefing on Sunday in...