By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State House of Assembly says it is set to make laws to give legal backing to the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board and Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board respectively. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Danladi Jatau announced this during the House...
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he House of Representatives has threatened to sanction agencies and companies that failed to appear before the committee in the probe of loss of 60 billion dollars by the federal government. The amount is an inflated cash calls by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) Joint Venture...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fewer than 1700 people have been rendered homeless, with 600 hectares of farmlands submerged and hundreds of livestock washed away as flash flood ravaged four villages in Gada Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Confirming the incident in a statement signed by...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to show swing voters that his likely new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, has her fingerprints all over two issues he is counting on for victory in November – immigration and the cost of living. Sources within the Trump campaign said...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday congratulated Mr Afam Osigwe, SAN, on his election as the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In a statement by Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s spokesman, he also congratulated all newly elected officers of the NBA and members of the association on...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – President Bola Tinubu is expected to declare Rubber Summit open, with a charge to Governors of natural rubber producing states, to take advantage of the arrival of investors and international rubber experts for the World Rubber Summit. The event is slated to hold...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Managing Director of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali, has stated that the construction of mega schools across the six states in the North-East sub-region was to help in tackling the menace of of out-of-school children. He said this in an...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign on Sunday followed a series of strategic missteps by his campaign team and White House aides that amplified concerns that the 81-year-old president wouldn’t be able to win in November’s election, or run the country for another four...
The Federal Government has tasked Nigerian workers and citizens on improve productivity, saying such push would improve living standards of the people across the country. The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, gave the charge while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu on Sunday in Accra, Ghana addressed African leaders on the status of ECOWAS, highlighting the progress so far made by the West African economic bloc and the prevailing challenges. Presenting the achievements of ECOWAS in the past one year at...
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has described the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway as part of the Federal Government’s priority projects. Umahi hi said this on Sunday while addressing newsmen after inspecting the Aba section of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Port Harcourt Road, Aba and other federal roads...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Governor Abdullahi Alhaji Sule, during his inaugural speech as the 4th democratical elected Governor of Nasarawa State, on the 29th of May, 2019 vowed to make the state an industrial hub, so that it can be economically self reliant. Engineer Sule, in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the appointment of Mal. Usman Aliyu as the Director General of Borno State Agency for Great Green Wall. The Great Green Wall is an African Union project to combat desertification in the Sahel region and prevent...
US President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of his reelection battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you...
Nigerian folklore music legend, Gentleman Mike Ejeagha, has taken social media by storm as his timeless Igbo highlife song, “Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo”, becomes the anthem of choice for content creators worldwide. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the dance moves appear to have become a...
President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has asserted that products refined at Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals are of superior quality compared to imported equivalents and meet international standards. Chief Corporate Communications Officer, Dangote Group, Mr Anthony Chiejina, quoted Dangote in a statement on Sunday in Lagos....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Northern Ethnic Youth Group , Assembly (NEYGA) has urged the embattled Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District to focus on addressing the ongoing issue of Boko Haram insurgency in his Constituency and good governance in the country rather...
Borno State farmers have lauded the initiative of the State Government in providing free bus rides for those, whose farms are located at the outskirts of Maiduguri town. A cross section of farmers, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri said, the gesture was...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The family of a late Judge of the Oyo State High Court, Justice Adegboye Ayinla Gbolagunte, has released the programme for his funeral. The first son of the deceased, Oladiran Gbolagunte, unveiled the weeklong programme in a statement he issued on Sunday. According to...