archiveJuly 2023

    The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has issued an alert warning 14 states of heavy rainfall that might lead to flooding, between July 4 and July 8. NEMA said 31 communities may also be affected. This alert was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday, July 5, by...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said there was a decline in the number of road accidents, injuries, and deaths recorded during the 2023 Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The agency said during the just concluded celebration, road crashes reduced to 25 per cent, injuries 43 per cent while the number of...

  The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Wednesday said it was  saddened and shocked by the passing of Dr Samuel Ibiyemi, one of its committed members and Publisher of NewsDirect Newspapers Group. Ibiyemi, aged 56, died on Tuesday at the Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan, Ogun , where he...

BudgIT, a leading civic-tech organization advocating for accountability, transparency, and effective service delivery in Nigeria, has launched its States Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL). The SFTL initiative builds on the recently concluded World Bank's State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Program, which promoted fiscal transparency and facilitated accountability in public...

  The Healing Heart Foundation, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) , has empowered and celebrated the widows through her maiden edition of cooking competition for the widows. Mrs Sophy Mbanisi, the President of the Foundation made this known at a programme organised by the Foundation in partnership with Ajinomoto Foods...

  as sector added N10.126trn to GDP in 2022 The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, has officially announced that the investment profile in the nation’s telecommunications sector, comprising foreign direct investment (FDI) and local investment, has reached $75.6 billion as of...

says candidate not the only one detected for forgery   The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday, said the Board had concluded investigations on the case of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, Mmesoma Ejikeme, who was accused of fraudulently inflating her...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano on Tuesday ordered that a former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Idris Wada-Saleh, be remanded in Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, PCACC, custody over alleged N1billion fraud. The defendant, a former Commissioner to Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, is charged with giving false information...

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday charged the nation’s new security chiefs to work as a team to secure the country from vice and other forms of societal misdemeanour. Tinubu gave the charge during his first meeting with National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, new service chiefs and Acting Inspector General...

The European Union Election Observation Mission has listed a former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode, for propagating fake news during the 2023 general election in Nigeria. EU accused Keyamo and Fani-Kayode of misleading Nigerians by...