archiveApril 18, 2023

Director of Financial Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Yakubu Gontor, has been honoured the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) for his exemplary professional conduct. NYCN is the umbrella body of youths across the 19 northern states including the Federal Capital Territory Abuja (FCT) with one of the...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime on Tuesday in Abuja rolled out a five-year strategic plan to foster effective internal security. The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, who unveiled the document, said it resulted from a retreat involving the ministry and services under it in 2021. Aregbesola said the plan would...

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s telecoms regulator, will be leading other stakeholders as eBusiness Life Communication Limited hosts young girls in the 2023 edition of the International Girls in ICT Day campaign. According to the organizers, the event, which will hold in Lagos on May 11, 2023, is part...

The Federal Government is set to pay state governments the backlog of stamp duties being owed them. Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State stated this in a letter made available to the Ogun State House of Assembly. Abiodun was seeking the lawmakers’ approval for and payment of the consultancy fee,...

  The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) sitting in Lagos on Tuesday voided the Lagos State government’s appointment of a caretaker committee for managing parks and garages. Justice Maureen Esowe ordered the reinstatement of the operations of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Lagos State. The...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba has ordered the withdrawal of the Commissioner of Police on election duty in Adamawa State, Mohammed Barde, with immediate effect. He replaced him with the Commissioner of Police in charge of Gombe State, CP Etim Equa, who is to immediately proceed to...

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged winner of the 2023 gubernatorial election in Adamawa State. Fintiri had locked horns with the only woman-governorship candidate in the 2023 Guber polls, Aishatu ‘Binani’ Dahiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared...

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to hear an ex-parte motion filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Adamawa governorship election, Senator Aisha Ahmed, popularly called Binani. Justice Inyang Ekwo, instead, ordered the APC candidate’s counsel, Mohammed Sheriff, to address the court on the issue...

says continent needs rapid industrialisation to get millions out of poverty Nigeria has a crucial and strategic role to play in the transition to a more sustainable energy future for the continent and the rest of the world, even as Africa would need rapid industrialization to get millions of its...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) generated N715.09 million in revenue from passengers in third quarter (Q3) of 2022, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says. This is contained in the NBS Rail Transportation Data for Q3 and Q4 2022 released in Abuja on Tuesday. The report shows that the figure...