archiveJuly 2020

The acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Company (NDDC) Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei and his team on Thursday, walked out on legislators investigating the alleged N40 billion irregular expenditure in the commission. Pondei stormed out of the hearing on Thursday in Abuja, after accusing the Chairman of the committee...

Defence Headquarters has said that 602 repentant Boko Haram members swore Oath of Allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the last one week. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this while giving update on the Armed Forces of Nigeria operations between July 9 and July...

Kano Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has effected a minor reshuffle of his cabinet. He has redeployed three commissioners to other ministries. He announced this after the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting in Kano. Lawan Musa, a former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Kano branch, has been moved from...

Dr Ngozi Okonjo – Iweala on Thursday expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly for nominating and supporting her candidacy for Director General of the World Trade Organisation( WTO) position. “ I want to also thank the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the Chief of...

The House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has issued warrant of arrest on the acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei. The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia) at an investigative hearing on Thursday in...

Akintunde Arotile, father of the late Airforce pilot, Tolulope Arotile, spoke with The Nation. Accept our condolences over your daughter’s death… From day one, she had not just been brilliant, but wonderful. I was in Kaduna then, she did all her educational career; from kindergarten to the nursery, at the...

Armed police officers, about 20 of them, on Thursday surrounded the Port Harcourt home of the former interim managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joy Nunieh. “They (police officers) came here to my home since 4a.m., they have surrounded everywhere,” Ms Nunieh told PREMIUM TIMES, Thursday morning....

Nigerians have risen in unison to mourn continued the Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile who died in an auto crash on Tuesday. The young officer was said to have been killed by a reversing car inside the Air Force base in Kaduna. The car was...

The Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA), Alhaji Mohammed Sani-Omolori, has rejected directed retirement and directed all affected members of staff of the National Assembly to disregard the directive. The National Assembly Service Commission on Wednesday issued a statement in which it announced Sani-Omolori’s retirement with 151 others, including the...

By Olukayode Kolawole The e-commerce revolution which sparked off in 1994 with a meagre $12.48 worth of transactions, has grown to a whopping $27 trillion market in 2020, according to eMarketer’s rating. Although the revolution started in the United States, it quickly extended to many countries in Europe and Asia,...