archiveMarch 2021

The money laundering trial of a former governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, and two others: Tanko Beji and Umar Muhammad Nasko continued on Tuesday March 30, 2021 with the first prosecution witness, PW1, Muhammad Ndawuye Nmadu, telling the Court that auditors could not trace the address of contractors...

The Federal Government has declared Friday April 2 and Monday April 5, as Public Holidays to mark 2021 Easter Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, announced this in a statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations in the ministry, Mr Mohammed Manga, on Tuesday in Abuja. Aregbesola...

  The Federal Government has tasked all Federal health institutions to ensure proper utilisation of the N49 billion intervention fund released for the upgrade of their health facilities. Mr Clem Agba, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, made the call, on Tuesday, during an assessment and evaluation visit...

 The Kano state Executive Council has approved the state Public Debt Management Office Bill 2020 and ordered the transmission of same to the state House of Assembly for passage into law. A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Muhammed Garba, made this known in Kano on Tuesday....

  Mr Jimoh Falola, chairman, Board of Trustee, Okada ridders Association of Oyo State, on Tuesday told a Customary Court sitting at Ile-Tuntun in Ibadan that he was still traumatised over his wife’s infidelity.Falola,  made this known while replying to divorce application from Opeyemi, who has been married t him...

The Office of the President of the Senate has noted a tweet by one Cmr Mayor attributing a fabricated statement to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. In the mischievous tweet, the Senate President was quoted as saying he "won't mind a constitutional amendment to allow unlimited term of office for...

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has attested arrested one Queen Jonathan, for suspected internet fraud in Oghara, Delta State. According to a press statement from the organization, the 24-year-old Jonathan is alleged to be involved in Bitcoin Scam. She presented herself...

 The Federal Government has urged the 36 states of the federation to contribute to the review of 14-year-old gender policy in education to eliminate gender parities in the education system.Hajia Binta Abdulkadri, the Director of Basic and Secondary Education, Federal Ministry of Education, made the call in Enugu on Monday...

...says Oyo keen on increasing agricultural outputs *'Oyo one of six states for agro-processing zones project' Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Monday, said that the state would soon fix at least 200 kilometres of rural roads through the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). The governor said that...

Lagos State accounting for 12.15%  Nigeria’s total public debt portfolio as at Dec. 31, 2020, stood at N32.92 trillion, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reveals.It made the revelation in its Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt report for Quarter Four, 2020, obtained from its website on Monday in Abuja. It...