By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has said the Commission would leverage technology to upgrade all its operations in the quest to transform the Niger Delta Region. Ogbuku, who spoke during a three-day Capacity Building and Retreat...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Vice President Kashim Shettima, accompanied by Acting Governor Umar Usman Kadafur, joined thousands of mourners at the funeral of Alhaji Tahir Mohammed Monguno, father of Senator MT Monguno. The ceremony took place at the Senator’s residence in Old GRA, Maiduguri, and was led...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has extended his condolences to the senator representing Borno North, Barrister Mohammed Tahir Monguno, over his father’s death, Alhaji Tijjani Muhammad. Late Alhaji Muhammad died on Saturday at the age of 95 and was buried on Sunday in...
Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, has announced plans to contract the construction of Achoho- Awajir- Oju road. Governor Alia made the announcement on Sunday, while addressing the All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters from Oju/Obi Federal Constituency in Oju Local Government Area (LGA), of Benue. He said his administration...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – The Plateau State Government has been urged to take immediate action to provide investment incentives, establish industrial clusters, and develop standardized markets and artisan hubs to promote job creation, maintain an organized environment, and drive overall development. Akin Omoware, Head of Component for Business...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the call by some politicians for decentralised minimum wage negotiations. Secretary of NLC in Oyo State, Mr Adebayo Aribatise, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ibadan, said that decentralising minimum wage negotiations would put workers...
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has said the release of N260 billion Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) revitalisation fund by the Federal Government is timely following recent cholera outbreak in the country. Oyintiloye, in a chat with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said that...
Canteen and restaurant owners have decried the rising cost of beans as they seek Federal Government’s intervention over the staple food. The food vendors said this in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. NAN reports that in recent times the price...
Cross River State Government has declared a total suspension of logging activities in all parts of the state. This was contained in a statement signed by Prof. Anthony Owan-Enoh, Secretary to the Government (SSG) of Cross River on Saturday and made available to journalists. It would be recalled...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has called for improved personal and environmental hygiene to curb the spread of cholera in the state. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, made the call in his goodwill message at the 2024 Eid-el Kabir celebration at the Government...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election Atiku Abubakar on Saturday visited immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, Katsina State. Atiku who was accompanied by the immediate past Governor of Sokoto State Aminu Tambuwal alongside other PDP...
Bishop Kukah Chief of Moro’a buried in Manchok, Kaduna Tears and tributes poured on Saturday in Manchok, Kaura Local Government in Kaduna State, when the remains of the late Chief of Moroa, Mr Tagwai Sambo, were laid to rest. The first class traditional ruler was 88 and had spent...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thundery and rainy weather conditions from Sunday to Tuesday across the country. NiMet`s weather outlook released on Saturday in Abuja forecast morning thunderstorms on Sunday over parts of Gombe, Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, Jigawa, Taraba and Kaduna states. It envisaged thunderstorms over...
Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir-Yusuf on Saturday directed security agencies to end thuggery bedevilling residents of Kano metropolis. Yusuf, who stated this during the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in Kano, decried the recent surge in thuggery and clashes between miscreants locally called “Yan Daba” in parts of...
Gov. Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has commenced the distribution of N100 million donated by the state government to the victims of the recent inferno at the Sokoto central market. This is contained in a statement signed by Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Malam Abubakar Bawa, issued to newsmen...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has congratulated the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for emerging as the 2024 “Best Public Tertiary Healthcare Facility of the Year” at the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence (NHE) Award Ceremony in Lagos yesterday. The NHE award (a global healthcare...
Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said that silence in the face of social injustice is a crime against the gospel of Christ and the nation. He stated this in Abuja at the inauguration of the Catholic Social Teaching (CST), programme for Catholic...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja– Popular Afrobeat star, Davido, has announced that his longtime personal assistant, Lati, will serve as his best man at his upcoming wedding on Tuesday, June 25 in Lagos. The revelation came when a curious fan asked Davido on X (formerly Twitter) who his best...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has dismissed as misleading reports insinuating breach of its database. This is contained in a statement by Mr Kayode Adegoke, Head, Corporate Communications of the commission, on Saturday in Abuja. He said the data of Nigerians have not been compromised as being...