President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the latest report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the state of the economy. The report had indicated that the country’s Gross National Product (GDP) posted another growth. According to NBS, the real GDP grew by 3.2 per cent year on year...
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The Ministry of Youth Development has said it is working on introducing a training scheme equivalent to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) for graduates of the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE). The Minister of State for Youth Development, Mr Olawande Wisdom, said this at the opening of the...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, has tasked the newly appointed pioneer Deputy Clerks/Permanent Secretaries of the assembly to deliver selfless services at all times. The Speaker made the call while playing host to the management of the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, CON, has conveyed his condolences to the government and people of Borno State over the demise of Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Ahmed Ali Ahmed, who passed away today, Monday in Maiduguri at the age of 42. In his...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a notable decrease in confirmed Mpox cases for the week of Aug. 12 to Aug. 18, 2024. According to the NCDC’s latest update on their official website, the number of confirmed cases has dropped compared to the previous...
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has announced that it spent more than N28.7 billion out of the N31.7 billion allocated to it in the 2023 appropriation on completing electrification projects nationwide. REA’s Managing Director, Mr Abba Aliyu, made this disclosure in Abuja on Monday while presenting the agency’s 2023...
By Danjuma Joseph Lafia Member representing Toto/Gadabuke constituency at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Hon. Mohammed Garba Isimbabi, has defected from New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Speaker of the assembly, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau, announced this while reading Hon. Isimbabi’s defection letter during...
CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos- Plateau state government has pledged to support vulnerable children as part of efforts to enable children who have dropped out of school to continue their education as a result of numerous inter and intra-communal conflicts. Commissioner for Higher Education, who was represented by a director in...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS). Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, who made this known in a statement on Monday, said Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed was the new Director-General...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Kashim Shettima has joined the Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, and other dignitaries, associates, and family members in attending the funeral of Alhaji Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Zulum’s late commissioner for finance and economic development, on Monday in Maiduguri. The funeral prayer was...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has announced the death of Ahmed Ali Ahmed, the State Commissioner of Finance. The late Commissioner died on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Professor Usman Tar, in Maiduguri. Details of the death...
Motorists and commuters along the busy Mararaba to Abuja city centre were stranded on Monday, owing to gridlock caused by floods, aftermath of a heavy downpour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the flooding and gridlock created chaotic scene at the Mararaba section of the road, in...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday affirmed the nomination of Asue Ighodalo as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Sept. 21 governorship election in Edo. A three-member panel of the appellate court affirmed Ighodalo’s nomination shortly after dismissing the appeal file by an aspirant,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum, over the passing of his Commissioner of Finance, Honourable Ahmed Ali Ahmed. President Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, also condoled with the family...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo extends heartfelt felicitation to the former Governor of the state Captain Idris Ichalla Wada as he celebrates his 74th birthday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Ismaila Isah, the Governordescribed Captain Wada as an exemplary...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says the recently announced increase in international passport fees is to enhance quality, faster process and access. Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, NIS Comptroller in Adamawa stated this on Monday in Yola, at the inauguration of an exercise to sensitise the people of the state to...
Some legal luminaries in Lagos have described the appointment of Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), as a huge leap for gender inclusiveness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Judicial Council, during its recent 106th meeting, recommended Justice Kekere-Ekun to the Federal...
Sen. Ned Nwoko (PDP-Delta), has called on President Bola Tinubu to replace the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs with a National Social Security Agency,. Nwoko made the call in an open letter addressed to Tinubu in Abuja on Monday. The letter is titled ‘’Reimagining Nigeria’s Social Safety Net: A Call...
In line with its strategic vision to be a dynamic and reliable global energy supplier of choice, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) has commenced shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargoes to Japan and China on Delivered Ex-Ship (DES) basis. NNPC Ltd achieved the milestone through...