archiveAugust 2021

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has hailed the recent Appeal Court judgment affirming its operatorship of the Oil Mining License 11 (OML 11), describing it as a huge victory for Nigeria and the beginning of addressing decades of host community restiveness. The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja on Monday...

Presiding Bishop of The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Ibadan, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, will ordain about 200 men and women as ministers in the ministry. This will form part of the activities to celebrate the 39th Holy Ghost Convention of the ministry scheduled to commence next Sunday. The week-long...

  The Federal Government has inaugurated four adolescent health and development policy from 2021 to 2025. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this at the opening of the 1st African and 2nd Nigeria conference on adolescent health and development on Thursday, in Abuja. The minister said that the...

  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, signed the Open Grazing Prohibition, Value Added Tax (VAT) collection and other bills into law. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, the governor maintained that the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for not making concerted efforts at nation building. According to him, the administration had not been able to fix the country and made it work. Atiku who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at a public presentation of a...

The Minister of State for Petroleum Corporation, Chief Timipre Sylva, says the Federal Government will hold equity stake in trust for the federation in the proposed NNPC Ltd. in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). Sylva said this while briefing newsmen, in Abuja, on Thursday. “Just like in the Nigeria Liquified...

 A former Governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi, has called on the Federal Government to invest the funds being borrowed in profitable ventures to enhance the nation’s socioeconomic development. Obi made the call on Thursday, while speaking with newsmen shortly after his courtesy visit to Oyo State Governor, Mr Seyi...

…pledges continuous recognition of civil servants' contributions to state's devt …says merit award will boost morale of civil/ public servants Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, said that his administration will never sacrifice merit and orderliness for political exigencies in the state. The governor, who was speaking at the...

Two decades after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York, U.S, terror networks – Al-Qaida and Islamic State – continue to pose a grave threat to peace and security globally, a top UN counter-terrorism expert has said. UN counter-terrorism chief, Vladimir Voronkov, told the Security Council on Thursday at...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 674 additional COVID-19 infections and eight more deaths had been registered as at Aug. 19. The NCDC stated this on its website on Friday morning, noting that the country’s total infections had risen to 185 267. He attributed the surge to the...