archiveSeptember 4, 2020

  The UK Government on Friday said it had awarded scholarships to 49 Nigerians to study in London through its Chevening scholarship programme. Opeyemi Ojo, Chevening Programme Officer in Nigeria, made this known during the pre-departure event held for 2020/2021 session Chevening Scholars at King Fisher Club, Ikoyi, Lagos. The...

The organised labour in Ekiti has called on Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), to ensure provision of adequate prepaid meters for its consumers in the state. Mr Sola Adigun and Mr Kolapo Olatunde, Chairmen of Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) respectively made the call during a...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), remitted N362.34 billion into the Federal Government Consolidate Revenue Fund (CRF), from 2015 to date, Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, has said. Danbatta, who spoke at an interactive session on Friday in Abuja, said that the revenue was realised through spectrum...

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) said on Friday that it has accepted the apology tendered by a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode for insulting its member. The leadership of NUJ, has therefore, asked all its members in the country to end all fireworks against the former minister. This was...

 President Muhammadu Buhari has urged governing party All Progressives Congress (APC), to work diligently and ensure fairness in electoral processes while returning governorship candidate of the party, Rotimi Akeredolu, for second term in office. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a...

The President of Ghana, Prof. Nana Akufo-Addo, has expressed the government’s readiness to reconsider the one million dollars capital base for foreign traders, as enshrined in the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Act 2013.  Akufo-Addo gave the assurance in a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep....

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has inaugurated an eight-member forensic audit team to scrutinise the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which has been trying grappling with issue of corruption for some time. Akpabio, whose ministry supervises the interventionist agency, said at the swearing...

  The Nigerian Government has received samples of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine. Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin, delivered the samples to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, on Friday in Abuja. The minister said the vaccine would be referred to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control...

The Police Command in Kano State has so far screened 13, 048 candidates for constables recruitment since the commencement of the exercise in the past 11-days in the state. The Spokesman for the Command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, stated this in a statement while reviewing progress of the exercise on Friday...

A criminologist at the University of Ibadan, Dr Oludayo Tade has advised the federal government to revise what he described as ‘harsh policies’ to reduce its negative impacts on the livelihoods of Nigerians, warning that consistent harsh policies may trigger increased corruption and crime. The Don noted that Nigeria has...