Opening the week, investors interest in the stocks of BUA Foods, FBN Holdings, Zenith Bank, among others advanced equities boosted the overall market index by 0.07 per cent. Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened at N55.129 trillion, gained N37 billion or 0.07 per cent to close at N55.166 trillion....
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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...
The Nigeria Police Force said it has detained 97 members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), known as the Shi’ite group, for prosecution, following the clash with the group in Abuja on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the clash resulted in the death...
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...
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2024 grew by 3.19%, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. In its Q2 2024 GDP Report on Monday, the Bureau said Nigeria’s GDP rose year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of 2024. “This growth rate...
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...
Mr Saleh Maikudi, a 35-year-old farmer from Bula community in Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State, has said he earned over N7 million annually from growing tomato and pepper. Maikudi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Bula community, said he became...
A member of the House of Representatives for Isiala Mbano / Onuimo / Okigwe Federal Constituency of Imo State, Hon Miriam Onuoha, said the oil and gas sector of the econony was too critical to be politcised. Onuoha stated that while constructive criticism was necessary to strengthen the sector...
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning Strike across all its centres nationwide. The resident doctors’ strike is to clamour for the release of their kidnapped colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over eight months. NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi,...