Says Programme owes contractors N71.4b By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The interim Coordinator of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) yesterday said that the programme, which was meant to train and rehabilitate ex-agitators, has been derailed from its original focus by endemic corruption. Dikio also told State House correspondents after meeting …
Governor Yahaya By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, yesterday, at a closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari, appealed to him to prevail on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to begin oil and gas exploration in the Gongola basin. The Governor also urged the President to come …
By Onozure Dania A Lagos High Court, sitting in Igbosere, Friday, ordered a top Lagos civil servant Ms Olaide Ibraheem and a former lover of Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyitolu, the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), to pay N750,000 fine for forcibly taking over Oke-Osanyitolu’s N45million property. Ibraheem is the Director, Admin and …
Promises support of farmers, commends Gov El-Rufai By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Thursday, congratulated the newly appointed Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, on ascending the throne of his ancestors. This was contained in a statement signed by the National President of AFAN, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, where …
Yakubu …Says it will replicate what happened during Edo election in Ondo State By Henry Umoru AS the people of Ondo State vote in their preferred candidates in today’s gubernatorial election, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC disclosed that it has uncovered twenty- seven ( 27) Flashpoints where there might be security breaches. According to INEC, …
By Dirisu Yakubu ABUJA- The federal government has committed a total of N71. 15 billion for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri and Ibadan-Kano railway modernization projects in the 2021 budget proposal. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Thursday presented the 2021 appropriation bill of N13.08 trillion to a joint session of the National …
President Muhammadu Buhari -Says farmers‘ll reap benefits of govt policies By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has charged his ministers of agriculture to work with the states to rediscover the lost animal grazing routes and reserves as a means to ending the frequent outbreak of violence between farmers and herders. President Buhari also said …
A High Court in Jos on Friday ordered that a policeman, Ruiya Auta, who allegedly killed a student of the University of Jos, be remanded in a correctional centre. Justice David Mann, gave the order, following an application by the Prosecution counsel, Chief Garba Pwul, SAN. Justice Mann ordered that the defendant should be transferred from …
Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami By Emmanuel Elebeke The Federal Government on Friday, said efforts to diversify the Nigeria economy and make it digitally compliance have started yielding the desired results with over 2, 600 direct jobs created within the past one year and about two billion naira earned by Data Protection Compliance Organisations …
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Hundreds of aggrieved youths on Friday, stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly Complex to protest the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, incessant harassment and killings of innocent citizens particularly, people believed to be operating Advanced Fee Fraud, otherwise called “Yahoo Boys.” Meantime, the Lagos State House of Assembly has demanded the proscription …
Alleged Priest By Nwafor Sunday The story of a Catholic Priest, that was caught having sex with two ladies has of course buzzed the internet and had left concerned Catholics to ask why? Having sex as a married man is good especially when it gives you the desired pleasure, stress relief and exercise needed. However, …
Atiku Abubakar …Says it contravenes Fiscal Responsibility Act By Dirisu Yakubu Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed N13.08 trillion 2021 budget, saying it contravenes the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, FRA. Atiku in a reaction to the Appropriation Bill in a statement he signed and made …
By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – TWO political parties; Action Peoples Party (APP) and Action Alliance (AA) have approached the Edo State Gubernatorial Election Petition Tribunal contesting the outcome of the election on the ground of “unlawful exclusion”. APP, in the petition in which Governor Obaseki, the PDP and INEC are respondents, claimed that it …
IGP, Mr. Mohammed Adamu The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu to jettison the call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. Many Nigerians have stormed the streets demanding for the end of the operations and activities of SARS in the country. Having …
By Emmanuel Elebeke The Federal Government Friday said efforts to diversify the Nigeria economy and make it digitally compliance have started yielding the desired results with over 2, 600 direct jobs created within the past one year and about two billion naira earned by Data Protection Compliance Organisations (DPCOs). The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, …
The bears maintained dominance on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Friday with the market capitalisation declining further by N68 billion. Specifically, the market capitalisation dropped N68 billion or 0.46 per cent to close at N14.852 against N14.920 trillion. Also, All-Share Index which opened at 28,546.22 lost 130.91 points or 0.46 per cent to close at …
