Prof. Chuwumerije Okereke, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi State, says climate change will cost Nigeria $460 billion by 2050, if action is not taken to mitigate its effects. Okereke made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Former Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang has expressed optimism that the dualization of the Oku-Iboku road between Cross River and Akwa-Ibom State will be completed. Senator Enang gave the assurance over the weekend during an...
….Wage bills of 66,460 ministries’ staff hit N924bn The Federal Government would not encourage premature retirements of Civil Servants, as being insinuated in some quarters, PRNigeria learnt. It is recently reported that Nigerian Governors, under the auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), at a meeting with President Muhammadu...
The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to sheathe its sword and come to a truce with the Federal Government over their ongoing strike. According to the JAMB registrar, both parties will have...
Kogi State Government on Saturday said it is working vigorously to rescue three children kidnapped at a housing estate in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of the state on Friday. The abductors have made a demand of N100 million ransom for their release. Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley...
By PETER OJOMA, Lokoja – The Kogi State Government has called on the Federal Government to resuscitate the Ajaokuta Steel Company Ltd. The Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, observed that the company’s site was fast becoming a den of criminals, Mr. Fanwo made the call...
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on Friday said it was unrealistic for the Federal Government to borrow money to end the months-long strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Mr. Keyamo stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Should we...
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Thursday asked Google to block terrorists organisations from YouTube. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the request when a team from Google visited him in Abuja. “We want Google to look into how to tackle the use of private and...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to demand a refund of the N1.4billion it gave to Niger Republic authorities and use the refund to offset ASUU funding. Recall that the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning Mrs. Zainab Ahmed confirmed on...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has announced its launch of Home Broadband services to accelerate broadband penetration in alignment with the Federal Government’s plan to achieve over 70% broadband penetration by 2025. The Chief Operating Officer, MTN Nigeria Communications PLC, Hassan Jaber, said in a...
South-East beneficiaries of the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSME) Survival Fund and Guaranteed Off-take Scheme have lauded the Federal Government for undertaking the business sustainability scheme after COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. They said this on Tuesday in Enugu during the South-East MSME Survival Fund and the Guaranteed Off-Take Scheme...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday said none of its university lecturers has been paid since the union embarked on industrial action in February. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, accused the Federal Government of using hunger as...
Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have advised the Federal Government to provide alternative before banning commercial motorcycle operations also known as “okada’’ to avoid creating more security challenges in the territory. Some commercial motorcyclists in some area councils in the FCT also cautioned government on the...
Residents of insecurity-inflicted Northwest geopolitical zone have kicked against any plan to ban the use of motorcycles, saying such measure would do more harm than good. Responding to survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), they noted that the common people rely more on motorcycles for their...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced a four weeks extension of the strike action embarked on by its members since February 14, 2022. ASUU National Executive Council (NEC) reached this decision at a meeting held on Sunday, which lasted into the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – The Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Nasarawa State Chapter, Dr.Sabo Emmanuel Ombugadu has appealed to the federal government to increase budgetary allocation to the health sector as a deliberate way of preventing doctors from seeking for greener pastures abroad. Dr. Ombugadu made the...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Nigerian Airforce, Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, has commended the Nigerian Airforce for effective deployment of the Super Tucanos and the success recorded so far against the current security challenges of Nigeria. Na’Allah gave the commendation in a telephone interview on Sunday to assess operations...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to commence operations in some of the newly constructed smart schools by January 2023. He gave this assurance when a team of Korean...
…As World Bank tasks FG on data protection No fewer than two hundred and fifty stakeholders, Wednesday, unanimously gave their nod to the steps towards enacting a principal Data Protection law for Nigeria. Rising from a two-day Policy Dialogue on Nigeria’s Data Protection law, held in Abuja, the participants...
The House of Representatives has resolved to intervene in the on-going dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government. Rep. Muhammad Wudil, Chairman, House Committee on Labour, said this when he and other house members received the protesting Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its...