President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of former Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr Abba Sayyadi Ruma. In a condolence message issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Tuesday in Abuja, the president described Ruma as “one of...
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The Kano State Government will purchase 100,000 units of free television Set-Top-Boxes (STBs) for indigent and poor households in the state at subsidised rate, Gov Abdullahi Ganduje, has said. Ganduje made the disclosure at the official launch of Digital Switch Over (DSO) for Kano State, on Tuesday, in Kano....
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says 1.5 trillion dollars (about N615.6trillion) is the cumulative estimated amount needed by Nigeria over a ten-year period, to achieve an appreciable level of the National Infrastructure Stock. President Buhari gave the figure on Tuesday in Glasgow at a COP 26...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has arrived in Akwa, the capital of Anambra State, ahead of the November 6 governorship election in the state. Upon arrival, Prof. Mahmood immediately went into consultation with the Anambra State Commissioner of...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland pledged that Nigeria would cut its emissions to net zero by 2060. Delivering his national statement at COP26 Leaders’ Summit, the President said that attaining national and global climate change goals will require adequate and sustained technical and financial support to developing...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Former Lagos State governor and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has backed Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu on the order for the probe of all that led to the collapse of the 21-storey building on Gerald Road, Ikoyi. He said the government must...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd has called on the general public not to engage in panic buying of petroleum products during and beyond the forth coming yuletide celebration. The Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division, Garba Deen Muhammad, who stated this in...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Death toll from a 21-story building under construction which collapsed in Ikoyi Area of Lagos State, on Monday, rose to fifteen on Tuesday as authorities intensified search and rescue efforts. While four persons were killed and five others rescued as of Monday night, the...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade has charged Surveyors to take their rightful place in the march towards sustainable economic development of the country, adding that they are critical to the industrialisation of Nigeria. The governor made the charge while declaring open the fourth...
As the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) celebrates 20 years of operation in Nigeria, the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon has described it as the mainstay of the global body’s humanitarian response in the North East. Speaking at a ceremony late Monday, Kallon described the UN agency...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to establish a specialized team of prosecutors to facilitate the effective investigation and the prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against journalists and other media workers to enable Nigeria to fulfill its regional and international...
The Nigerian Hunters Council (NHC) has renewed its commitment towards detecting and combating crime and criminality in the country, as it seeks official recognition as a security agency. Commander-General of the council, Joshua Osatimehin, stated this in Abuja on Monday, at the end of a five-day capacity training for...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ahmed Idris, has called on the Association of Bursars of Nigerian Universities (ABNU) to put in place a think tank that will generate ideas to enhance effective management of the nation’s treasury. Speaking at the opening ceremony...
The General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Mr Gbolahan Oki, says the owner of the collapsed 21-storey building, under construction in Ikoyi, was given approval to construct only 15 floors. Oki told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone that the owner of the property has...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has approved the appointment of Bala Isa as Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board. The appointment was announced in a statement Issued on Monday by Governor Zulum’s Special Adviser on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau in...
At least four persons have died after a high-rise building collapsed in the Ikoyi area of Lagos on Monday. Some five persons have also been rescued alive as rescue operations intensified into the night. More people are believed to still be trapped in the rubble. The Lagos State Emergency...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a socialite Obinna Iyiegbu, better known as Obi Cubana. Obi Cubana is being questioned at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. He arrived at the EFCC office around noon on Monday. Although details of allegations against the Anambra-born tycoon are still...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – American billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, on Monday in Glasgow, Scotland commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country, describing the commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary. Bezos joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron,...
In continuation of the crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly,the Speaker of the Legislature, Abok Ayuba, has now been whisked away from the assembly complex in a police Hilux van. The operation to take Ayuba out of the complex was led by the Commissioner of Police in...
The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Bank Assisted Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification (MinDiver) Project has begun a National training programme on Jewellery making for 40 Nigerian youths. Mr Olamilekan Adegbite, Minister of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) made this known at the Gemstone and Jewelry...