archiveSeptember 2021

  The Federal Government has inaugurated a nine-member Project Implementation Committee (PIC) for the partial commercialisation of four pilot River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs).Inaugurating the committee on Tuesday in Abuja, Mr Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, said that the RBDAs were strategic players in the actualisation of national...

demands quick implementation of PIA President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the issue of insecurity remains the biggest challenge that must be prioritized and tackled headlong by constant engagement between the Executive and Legislature. Lawan stated this on Tuesday in a speech delivered to welcome Senators back...

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced two final year students of two tertiary institutions in Ilorin to various jail terms for offences bordering on cybercrime. The convicts are Oyewale Wasiu Adetunji and Adebayo Ibrahim Abiodun, who are students of Kwara State University,...

 Dr Titus Okunrounmu, an economist, has advised the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redouble its efforts towards promoting growth and development. Okunrounmu, also a former Director, Budgeting Department of CBN, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...

Heritage Bank Plc, Nigeria and seven other banks have provided a total of N15.5billion to assist SCOA Nigeria Plc for the importation and supply of MAN Platform Trucks and equipment to Julius Berger Nigeria for construction of 380km Abuja-Kaduna-Kano roads and many others across the country. Specifically, Heritage Bank availed...

  The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to consider and approve an external loan to fund projects captured under the 2018-2021 borrowing plan. The letter dated 24th August, 2021 was read during plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan. Buhari in the letter explained that...

Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has reacted to the death of Asian Preacher, Dr. David Yonggi Cho. Yonggi Cho was the cofounder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea. The popular minister of the gospel died on Tuesday morning at the age...

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), says proper management of household medical wastes is key to stopping further spread of the COVID–19 virus. Mr William Tsuma, Prevention and Recovery Advisor, UNDP, who made this known while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said mismanagement of COVID-19-elated wastes can cause...

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has described the sit-at-home in the South-East, ordered by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as counter-productive Kalu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, said that it is not the right thing...

 Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday approved the appointment of the Deji Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, as chairman of Ondo State Council of Obas.This is contained in a statement issued in Akure by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Richard Olatunde. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the appointment of...