archiveMarch 25, 2024

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has approved the construction of Osun State Hajj Camp with immediate effect. Speaking at Nasfat Ramadan lecture today at Osogbo, Governor Adeleke bemoaned a situation whereby Osun state is the only state in the South West without a hajj camp, vowing to lay the...

  The new National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has unveiled a new corporate identity in line with the repositioning of the Agency. The new corporate identity comprises a newly redesigned logo tagged ‘NASENI: Infinite Possibilities’ and comes with new colors, font, pay offline and masthead for letterheads, and...

  The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has filed criminal charges against Binance, a renowned cryptocurrency exchange platform. The lawsuit, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja under case number FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, accuses Binance of violating four separate tax laws. Below is the list of the tax laws allegedly violated...

      The Minister of State for Health, Dr Tunji Alausa has called for a total ban on the importation of medical syringes into the country to encourage local production and help to grow the nation’s economy. The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration...

    Nigeria has called for a coordinated and multilateral approach by the West African region to protect shared telecommunications infrastructure and diversify connectivity to ensure uninterruptible connections. This followed the recent undersea cable cuts that disrupted connectivity in many countries in the region. The Executive Vice Chairman of the...

  The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has explained why it increased fresh registrations for 2024 Hajj fares from its initial N4.9 million to over N8 million. It would be recalled that the commission, in a press release signed by its Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Fatima Sanda Usara and...

The Federal Government has hailed  the outstanding performance of Team Nigeria in the just concluded 13th African Games in Ghana. Team Nigeria finished second on the medals table behind Egypt with 47 gold, 33 silver and 40 bronze medals. The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, who conveyed...

  The Police Service Commission (PSC) has rescheduled the date for the medical screening and examination for candidates for Police recruitment into the Constable cadre across the country as a result of the ongoing Muslim Ramadan fast and the Christian Lenten period. The PSC in a statement signed by the...

The office of the National Security Advisers, ONSA, has confirmed the escape of the Binance regional manager for Africa, Nadeem Anjarwalla. Anjarwalla, Binance’s Africa regional manager,was reported to have escaped from custody on March 22, 2024, from an Abuja guest house, where he and his colleague, Tigran Gambaryan, were detained...