archiveSeptember 26, 2019

…As gov congratulates him on 75th birthday   Former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has urged incumbent Governor Seyi Makinde to ensure he repositions the State for the benefit of all. Senator Ladoja, who spoke in Ibadan when Governor Makinde visited him on account of his 75th birthday,...

    President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Nigeria lost an estimated 157.5 billion dollars to illicit financial flows between 2003 and 2012. The president’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, said Buhari disclosed this in an address to the High-Level National Side-Event organised by the African Union Development Agency and New...

  The Senate on Thursday referred the 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) documents to its Committee on Finance. The committee chaired by Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Lagos West) was given one week to come up with a report. The Senate had on Wednesday...

Child of British-Nigerian singer, Sade Adu, Izaak, has completed the transition from female to male following the success of a phalloplasty (a plastic surgery to construct a penis). In an emotional message on his Instagram handle on Thursday, Izaak, who is the only child of the soulful singer from her...

The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday said that his family had yet to receive any contact or information pertaining to his abducted wife, Francisca. Okhiria made this disclosure when members of the Transportation Correspondents Association of Nigeria (TCAN) visited him at NRC Headquarters, Ebute-Metta...

      The remittances of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to the Federation Account dropped by N1.59tn within a five-year period, figures contained in the latest report of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative have shown. An analysis of NEITI’s Fiscal Allocation and Statutory Disbursement Audit report for 2012...

A battle over where former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe should be laid to rest took another unexpected turn on Thursday, with a family spokesman saying that he would be buried at the weekend in his rural hometown of Kutama. Mugabe, who died at the age of 95 in Singapore on...

A business consultant, Mr Nerus Ekezie, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to  explore more Public Private Partnership (PPP) models as  measures to tackle the country’s $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. Ekezie, who is a former Director, of National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises,(ASME), made the call in an...

    The Anambra Government has earmarked six billion naira for the construction of the Anambra State International Cargo Airport at Umueri, near Awka. Gov. Willie Obiano made the disclosure at the presentation of the state’s 2020 budget to the state’s assembly on Thursday in Awka. He announced that a...

  Technical Adviser Gernot Rohr has invited midfielder Ramon Azeez and forward Peter Olayinka into Nigeria’s 23-man squad for the Oct. 13 friendly with five-times world champions Brazil in Singapore on Sunday. Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), disclosed in a statement on Thursday that Rohr is...