archiveJune 2022

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 elections in Nigeria, Alhaji  Atiku Abubakar, has given reasons why he chose the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate. Abubakar offered the reasons at the unveiling of Okowa at the National Secretariat of the party in...

    *VP Osinbajo represents President at Great Green Wall Conference in Abuja   African countries must continue to explore various measures to combat climate change, desertification while also addressing food insecurity and poverty across the continent. This is one of the reasons why Nigeria plans to attain net zero...

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the issue concerning the ongoing strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and three other university-based unions was not as simple as people think, even as he also revealed that Federal Government approved the establishment of e-learning centres...

Nigerians have been guaranteed the generation, transmission and distribution of an average of 5,000MW of electricity daily from July 1, 2022. This was disclosed by Sanusi Garba, Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), during a media briefing in Lagos on Wednesday. According to him, Nigerians will witness improved power supply...

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has backed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State as the vice-presidential candidate of the party for the 2023 elections. The NWC members on Wednesday voted 13-3 to endorse the report of the panel which had earlier nominated Wike for the...

    A bill seeking to provide for the establishment of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme scaled second reading in the Senate, on Wednesday. The bill sponsored by Senator Umar Sulieman (APC, Kwara North), seeks to provide a realistic framework for the success of education financing. Suleiman, in his...

A call has been made to the Federal Government through the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy for the naming of the corporate headquarters of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) after the former pioneer Minister of Communications, late Engr. Olawale Adeniji Ige. This call was contained in an address presented...

  targets completion of entry into Chad and Cameroon in Q3 2022 and further hydrocarbon acquisitions   Savannah Energy PLC, the British independent energy company focused around the delivery of Projects that Matter in Africa, is pleased to announce its 2021 Annual Report and Audited Accounts. The Full Year total...

  mourns victims of Owo attack   The Senate has urged security agencies in the country to be discreet in collaborating on intelligence gathering and sharing to prevent future attacks by bandits and insurgents. This was just as the chamber condemned the recent attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo,...

  The Senate has received a formal request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the nomination of Umar Yahaya as Co-Chairman of the Governing Council of Unclaimed Funds Trust Funds. The request was contained in a letter dated 3rd June, 2022. The letter was read by the Senate President, Ahmad...