archiveJanuary 2021

The Federal Government has insisted that the security situation in the country has improved and better than what it met when President Muhammadu Buhari took over in 2015. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed reiterated this position on Monday in Abuja at a media briefing on the...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has urged Nigerians to exercise restraint following the brewing conflict in the northern regions of Oyo State, as well as the tension in Ondo State. He gave the advice in a statement he signed and shared on his official Twitter handle. A part of...

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that military and political leaders are addressing security challenges in the South-West. He pleaded with Nigerians and different ethnic groups to “lower the temperature.” He said since the beginning of the year, Armed Forces have neutralised 158 criminal...

  Lagos State government said no fewer than 879 farmers and Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) across poultry, aquaculture and rice value chains have directly benefited from the Lagos Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) project in the last three years. It also said that another set...

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said that there was no eviction order to herdsmen in Ondo State or any part of the South West region. It said the speech of Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, was misconstrued in the media and was only directed at government reserve including registration. Chairman...

As the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) begins its first meeting of 2021 today and expected to come out on Tuesday with the decision on the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), the first in the new year, analysts have been giving possible outcome of the...

A 47-year-old man, Ibrahim Issa, on Monday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for unlawfully distributing the National Identification Number (NIN) forms to applicants. The police charged Issa, whose address was not given, with unlawful distribution of NIN forms to applicants without authority from the National Identity Management Commission....

The Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday re-arraigned George Turnah, a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, an erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Commission and two others alongside nine firms before Justice Mohammed Turaki of the Federal High Court sitting in...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again warned International Money transfer operators (IMTOs) and unlicensed companies to stop facilitating diaspora remittances into the country in Naira. The apex bank, in a statement released on Friday signed by Dr Ozoemena Nnaji, its director of Trade & Exchange of CBN,...

  Chelsea Football Club have parted company with Head Coach Frank Lampard. The club, in a statement, said: “This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the Board have taken lightly. “We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time...