President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law a legislation by the National Assembly, the Nigerian Correctional Service Act 2019, changing the Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigerian Correctional Service. The legislation also creates two broad departments […]
A delegation of the world football governing body, FIFA, has visited Akwa Ibom to inspect facilities at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo. The FIFA team was in Uyo to inspect the facilities ahead of […]
A Benin-City based group, ‘Talakawa’s Parliament’ Thursday threatened to go on hunger strike over the abandoned five-star Central hospital in Benin City, Edo State. The group also hinted of its plan to occupy the streets […]
The Hawker Pacific operations at Singapore Seletar Airport have been successfully integrated into Jet Aviation, following its acquisition of Hawker Pacific in May 2018. The two companies operated adjacent MRO and FBO facilities at the […]
Why are Nigeria’s universities in such a sorry state? Some would say it has to do with just one word – money. Sadly this is part of the reason. But not entirely. Nigeria’s universities have […]
Niger State government has identified and ready to harness 100 potential tourism sites across the 25 local government areas of the state . The state commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Daniel Sunday Kolo stated this Monday […]
The Wife of Kano state governor, Dr Hafsat Abdullahi Ganduje has distributed safe delivery kits to 300 expectant mothers free in Garo town, Gwarzo local government area of the state. The items were distributed at Garo Comprehensive […]
The acting Inspector General of Police IGP Mohammed Adamu has ordered a comprehensive water-tight and round-the-clock security for all INEC offices and facilities nationwide. The police boss in a press statement by the Force Public […]
The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) chairmanship candidate of Peoples Trust (PT), one of the political parties seeking for positions in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Honourable John Bawa, has promised provide suitable healthcare facilities […]
Canada will act to prevent the smuggling of cheap steel and aluminum into the North American market to avoid new U.S. tariffs on the metals, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau said this Tuesday in a statement. […]
More and more Anglophone Cameroonians are fleeing a violent crackdown in their country and seeking asylum in Nigeria, the Office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), said yesterday. The UN refugee agency also […]
Minna Niger state government is reviving and expanding the 30, 000-hectare Bobi Grazing Reserve in Oro, Mariga local government area of the state. Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello stated this on Sunday when he paid an unscheduled […]
Jos Disengaged staff of the Nigerian Mining Corporation (NMC), Jos have called on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to facilitate the payment of their withheld severance package amounting to N329.4 million. The disengaged staff, numbering about […]
By Tope Sunday Abuja Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi yesterday said the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge rail lines would commence commercial activities in August. Amaechi told newsmen in Abuja that the ministry was putting in place […]
By John Oba Abuja The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure has called on state governments to upgrade the orientation camps in their states, saying that the upsurge in the number […]
By Ajuma Edwina Ogiri Abuja Bishop of Abuja and Primate of all Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Rev. Nicholas Okoh, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to solve the issue of inadequate health facilities in the country and […]
By Sadiq Abubakar Maiduguri About 1,902 out of 236,404 persons tested positive to human immune deficiency virus (HIV) in Borno state between January and December, 2017, Commissioner of Health, Dr Haruna Mshelia, has revealed. The […]
By Joshua Egbodo Abuja House of Representatives has directed investigation into how over N11 billion budget on the State House Clinic, partly by the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, and under President Muhammadu Buhari, […]
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