archiveJune 4, 2020

The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) has concluded arrangement to henceforth transmit her services live on television. This followed the ongoing provision of adequate measures and Installation of facilities to ensure successful reopening. Chairman of the MFM Media Committee, Pastor Oladele Bank-Olemoh, who disclosed this during the week,...

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has removed the cap on the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol. The agency made the disclosure in a document it released in Abuja on Thursday entitled, ‘’Market Based Pricing Regime for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) Regulations, 2020’’. It...

  Former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called for the review of law on rape to ensure that rapists are adequately punished. Atiku, who spoke against the rape and subsequent death of the University...

  Stops use of antivirals in managing patients   The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday said that a negative laboratory test is no longer required to discharge a COVID-19 patient, as symptomatic patients will be discharged earlier than usual after they have stop showing symptoms of the...

…says it's time to reform civil service Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Thursday swore in three permanent secretaries and members of the state’s Civil Service Commission, declaring that the time to reform the service is now. Governor Makinde, who also charged the newly appointed permanent secretaries and commission...

  Justice Fatima Musa of the Gombe State High Court 13 has convicted and sentenced Usman Adamu Shagari to four and half years jail term for his involvement in fertilizer scam. Shagari was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six- count charge for production and sales...

The Vice President, Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, has said the American Treasury Department is mistaken about its call for a fresh probe of the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, calling for engagement with Washington on the issue. The chamber leader...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Port- Harcourt’s  Zonal office,  on June 4, 2020, arraigned a spurious managing director of a micro finance bank,   Belema Abibo and Cosmopolitan micro finance Bank limited, before Justice M. L Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting  in  Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on...

  “When the whole world is trying hard to save lives from COVID-19, an execution by the state is contradictory and perverse” said Kevin Miguel Rivera Medina, President of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. In a statement released on Thursday, the Human Rights Law Service and the World...

  BudgIT has commended the Federal Government’s Open Treasury Portal for the purpose of increasing transparency in government spending, describing it as innovative and commendable, but that there much work still needed for the platform to fully achieve its goal of enabling public transparency and accountability. On the 9th of...