archiveOctober 7, 2023

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Ms Betta Edu, has said the federal government would suspend the N-Power programme indefinitely. Edu, who announced this during an interview with TVC News on Saturday, also said the ministry is currently investigating alleged irregularities since the programme’s inception. According to her,...

The Chairman, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof. Samuel Edoumiekumo, is dead, a source close to the family of the deceased confided in the Punch correspondent on Saturday evening. Edoumiekumo, who was the immediate past VC of the Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, was said to have died on...

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has proposed November 2023 to launch the $617.7 million Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) programme. The target was set on Friday when Vice President Kashim Shettima met with the i-DICE Steering Committee in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. To ensure...

The NGX All-Share Index and Market Capitalization appreciated by 0.11 per cent and 0.49 per cent to close the week at 66,454.57 and N36.510 trillion respectively. Similarly, all other indices finished higher with the exception of NGX CG, NGX Premium NGX Insurance, NGX Lotus ll, NGX Industrial Goods, NGX Growth...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, October 6, 2023 continued the trial of one Wilson Daphey (a.ka.a Jefrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on nine-count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and money laundering. Daphey allegedly manipulated...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed its readiness to engage in negotiations with the Federal Government for the peaceful separation of Biafra from Nigeria, under the supervision of the United Nations through a referendum The pro-Biafran faction claims that their peaceful campaign for Biafra’s independence commenced in...

Nigerian oil marketers have declared that the controversial oil subsidy regime terminated by the President Tinubu administration has made a comeback barely five months after. Leadership Weekend reports that with the rise in the landing cost of petrol, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has said it has no...

  President Bola Tinubu has said his administration will enhance quality education through the implementation of strategic policies in the sector. Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Mr Zephaniah Jisalo, said this at the 27th Convocation of the University of Abuja on Saturday....

Some policies of the Federal Government are counterproductive to polytechnic education in Nigeria, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has said. National President of ASUP, Dr. Anderson Ezeibe, stated this while delivering a keynote address at a three-day international conference organised by the union at the Ikot Osurua Campus...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC)  on Friday reiterated its stand that it had no plans to raise the price of petrol. Nigerians have been apprehensive as rumours of a planned price increase continue despite several attempts by the government to debunk the insinuations. The rumours intensified after reports...