archiveJune 17, 2019

The Director-General (DG) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami would on Thursday this week in Lagos give a keynote to the 2019 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable. Disclosing this development, the Executive Director, DigitalSENSE Africa...

  Oil prices slipped on Monday as signs of an economic slowdown amid international trade disputes began to outweigh supply fears that were stoked by attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week and sent prices higher. Brent futures fell 25 cents, or 0.4 per cent, to...

  The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered that the current status of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, MAPOLY, be reverted. This was as the governor set up a committee to look into operational modalities of Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology, Abeokuta and Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia. Governor...

  At least 30 people have been killed in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigeria, state emergency services officials said. Three suicide bombers detonated explosives at Konduga village, 25km from Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno state, on Sunday night, village head Bulama Kalli said. -Reuters...

  The Ondo State Government has accessed $37million in the past four years out of the $50million World Bank loan for the funding of health projects under the Nigeria State Heath Investment Project (NSHIP) The Special Adviser to the state governor on Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye, disclosed this at a...

The presidential candidate of Young Progressives Party, YPP, in the last presidential election, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has said with the security situation in the country, Nigeria was drifting into the status of a failed state. Moghalu also said he did not go to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to contest...

The Consul General of the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, Mr. Godwin Adama, says the mission is to protest killings and high-handedness of the South African police against Nigerians. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the planned protest follows the recurring killing of Nigerians resident in the former apartheid...

  Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State announced on Sunday that a new security policy would be formulated soon to prevent kidnapping and other security problems from getting into the state. Sanwo-Olu made the announcement at an inter-denominatial thanksgiving service held to honour him and the new administration at the...