archive2020

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Nigerians to hold officials of the Buhari Presidency and leaders of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for the festering violence and incessant killing of innocent Nigerians by terrorists. In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday presented a cheque of N10 million each to families of the six police officers lynched in Lagos State in the wake of the violence that trailed the nationwide #EndSARS protests, in fulfillment of his administration’s pledge made during an earlier meeting with police officers. The...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the country recorded 343 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the number of infections in the country to 68,303. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “343 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; FCT-123 Lagos-106 Kaduna-72 Nasarawa-14...

  stresses importance of enriching food processing Although efforts by stakeholders in the food processing industry to improve the nutritional value of edible oil, salt, sugar, wheat flour, and other processed foods is commendable, ensuring full compliance to national standards will be required to shape national public health outcomes to...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is targeting $2 billion monthly from diaspora remittances. This follows the introduction of the diaspora forex remittances policy by the apex bank. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele dropped the hint at a news conference on the new policy in Abuja on Thursday. Using Pakistan as...

    Former Minister of Interior, Abba Patrick Moro, on Thursday, December 3, 2020, began his defence before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja, stating in his testimony that the March 17, 2014 recruitment exercise of Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) was marred by controversies, nepotism, job racketeering...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that it has taken steps to execute the summons issued to compel the appearance of the fleeing ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. EFCC’s lawyer, Farouk Abdullah told the court, at the mention...

  President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said his administration was committed to creating more jobs with greater focus on youthful population through priority on agriculture, arts, entertainment, mining and Information Technology, stressing that the private sector would be enabled to drive the process. According to the Special Adviser to...

  The Lagos State Government on Thursday said it had earmarked N32.76 billion in the 2021 Appropriation Bill for security. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed this during the 14th Annual Town Hall Meeting on Security. The theme of the meeting was “Lagos Security: Resilience in the Face of Adversity.” Sanwo-Olu said...

  The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has told Nigerians not to be discouraged by the recent attack by Boko Haram in which 43 rice farmers were massacred. This submission was made on Thursday by the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations of the DHQ, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche in a statement where he stated...