archiveJanuary 2020

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun on Friday swore in 19 Commissioners and 16 Special Advisers, with a call on them to provide quality leadership for their ministries and agencies. In his address at the ceremony held at the Cultural Centre, Kuto in Abeokuta, the governor charged the appointees to consider...

  The Nigeria Police Force has said the video showing a person wearing a police uniform and holding a point of sale machine to allegedly extort commuters is being investigated. The police reacted to the video via its verified Twitter handle, @policeNG, on Friday. Recall that in a video that...

  The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) wants Nigerians to be sure that south-west governors did not abuse the constitution with the establishment of Amotekun, the south west's security outfit. The ACF says the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, should observe and guide against abuse of the constitution ACF's...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has clear the air on Mass Communications has it said it has been unbundled and not scrapped. NUC Director of Corporate Affairs, Ibrahim Yakassai said on Thursday that Mass Communication was not scrapped. “We will retain the Mass Communication for those universities that have not...

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC)  to immediately implement measures aimed at re-positioning the broadcast industry. Mohammed in a statement on Thursday by his media aide, Segun Adeyemi, said the directives became necessary following the submission of the report of...

Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has directed that the new minimum wage of N30,000 be paid to the state civil servants from January 2020. He also ordered for the immediate verification of personnel to possibly weed out gost workers on the pay roll. The governor gave the directives when...

  Nigeria's plan to diversify the economy away from crude oil earnings is expected to boost foreign investors' confidence in the economy, President/Chairman of Council, Chartered Institute of Bankers' of Nigeria (CIBN) Dr. Uche Olowu has said. Speaking on Thursday at the at the Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN),...

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Adeniyi Adebayo has said that the Federal Government would support any foreign investor who comes to the country for business. He also said the new $600million steel plant in Kaduna State would help to lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty. Adebayo gave...

    President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Abubakar Garba as the new Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). A former Minister of State for Defence, Ademola Seriki, was also appointed as the Chairman of the Board of the Commission, according to a statement of the new appointments...

The Nigeria Immigration Service is to investigate the allegation of bribery against its personnel along the Nation’s borders. The Public Relations Officer of NIS, Mr. Sunday James, in a statement on Friday in Abuja denied the allegations that its personnel are involved in bribe-taking at the borders. News Agency of...