Lai Mohammed The Federal Government says it is reforming and commercialising the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) to address the agency’s teething challenges and reposition it for improved performance. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known on Monday in Abuja while inaugurating a Steering Committee for the Reform and Commercialisation of the …

…As Buhari asks Kaduna to surpass investment achievements By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Kaduna State Government has entered into a three-year Memorandum of Understand (MoU) with the United States Agency for International Development(USAID), to help drive the economic development of the state. This was as President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Kaduna State Government to keep …

Nigeria Youths By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Global Peace Foundation, GPF, has urged Nigerians to continue living in peace, saying the various people that made up Nigeria should accept diversity as a human attribute. Rev John Joseph Hayab, Country Director of the Global Peace Foundation Nigeria, said on Monday that as the world celebrates the International Day …

Gov Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers state By Ike Uchechukwu Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, yesterday, fulfilled his promise  by  arresting  illegal tax collectors in Calabar, the state capital. The enforcement exercise, which began yesterday, by  Cross River Anti Tax Agency led by its Chairman, Bishop Emma Isong, in collaboration with office of the …

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday, condemned in strong terms,  the alleged harassment, abduction, torture and secret killing of its members or anybody suspected to be its member, throughout Igbo land. The pro Biafra group alleged that the deliberate ethnic cleansing has continued unabated …

By Lawani Mikairu Nigeria Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, yesterday, released the preliminary report on the accident involving a Bell 206B III helicopter with nationality and registration marks 5N-BQW, operated by Quorum Aviation Limited, QAL, which occurred at Opebi Area, Lagos, on August 28, this year. Recall the Quorum helicopter crashed onto the roof of a building …

By Evelyn Usman A staff of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly  drugging and defiling a 14-year-old girl in Ejigbo area of Lagos. The suspect (name withheld), had gone to install prepaid meters for some residents of Akinwunmi Street, Ile-Epo  area of Ejigbo, when …

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Muda Yusuf, LCCI boss By Yinka Kolawole Amidst the controversies surrounding the new Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is now pressing for urgent gazetting of the law, saying that delay is creating uncertainties in business decisions anchored on the law. Director General, LCCI, Dr. Muda Yusuf, …

By Ediri Ejoh The Federal Government has been advised to consider a direct deduction of the electricity bills of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and paying them directly to the electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, to drive development in the country’s power sector. Vanguard gathered that the DISCOs are being owed N98 billion by the MDAs and …

President Buhari with H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo  By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and his Ghanaian counterpart, Nana Akufo-Addo, met behind closed-doors late Sunday night at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Although details of the meeting which was made public at about 11:36pm on Sunday by the Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, on …

…Cholera epidemic, hunger tear Boko Haram apart as 80 fighters defect from Shekau’s faction …Military alerted to planned joint ISWAP/defectors attacks on Baba town in Borno …Arewa youths claim bandits kill 11,000 in Zamfara By Kingsley Omonobi & Ibrahim HassanWuyo President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday asked indigenes of Kaduna, especially Southern Kaduna, to cooperate with the government …

Lai Mohammed The Federal Government says it is reforming and commercialising the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) to address the agency’s teething challenges and reposition it for improved performance. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this known on Monday in Abuja while inaugurating a Steering Committee for the Reform and Commercialisation of the …

White tanker truck on the highway. By Michael Eboh Nigeria Association of Road Transport Owners, NARTO, yesterday, ordered all its members to withdraw trucks, especially petrol tankers nationwide today and tomorrow. NARTO’s directive was in protest to the order of the Federal Government, banning tankers with 45,000-litre capacity from lifting petroleum products in the country. …

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Lagos State on Monday called on contractors working on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other major roads to use standard road signage codes on the construction sites. The Lagos Sector Commander, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, made the call in a statement by Mrs Olabisi Sonusi, the sector’s Public Education Officer in …

Ban on election riggers: Wike urges US, UK to name indicted persons Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has appealed to security agencies to ensure that those who sabotage the government’s effort to eliminate bunkering are brought to justice. Wike made the appeal on Monday when participants of the Naval Warfare College Course Four paid him a …

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) says the Federal Government has spent a total of N8.94 trillion on oil subsidy between 2006 and 2015. The agency disclosed this in a document on subsidy payment released in Abuja on Monday. It said that the subsidy was paid to oil marketers and the Nigerian National Petroleum …

The ECOWAS Court will be resuming its activities on Oct. 7, after its three months vacation. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by the media office of the justices. The court will deliver judgment in nine cases filed against eight some member states. It added that the cases were also filed against Nigeria’s …

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari has paid over N70.99 billion pension and gratuities to retirees since assumption of office in 2015, the State Head of Service, Alhaji Idris Tune, has said. Tune told members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalist (NUJ) Katsina Chapter, on Monday, that …

The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance, NTCA, last Thursday, paid a courtesy visit to the new leadership of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, Abuja, with a call for the regulatory body to ban tobacco advertisements. The NTCA team led by Programme Manager, Olu’Seun Esan, congratulated Dr. Olalekan Fadolapo, Ihe newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer and Registrar …