archiveAugust 26, 2024

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for what it called unprecedented display of transparency and accountability in releasing its 2023 Audited Financial Statement (AFS). HURIWA stated that the NNPCL’s declaration of a net profit of N3.3 trillion, alongside the...

  Nigeria loses a whopping N50 million daily to the importation of pineapples despite producing about 1,607,200 metric tons per annum, placing the country as the eighth largest producer of the crop in the world, an Agriculturist, Amb. Oluwasegun Alabi has said. Addressing a news conference at the National Assembly...

  Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), have begun a seven-day warning strike over the abduction of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola. Popoola has been in kidnappers den for eight months. The President of NARD, Dr Dele Abdullahi, announced the strike during a virtual emergency meeting of...

    The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi has reaffirmed the commitment to reform the justice sector by critical stakeholders. Fagbemi gave the assurance during the 64th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) with the theme:”Pressing Forward: A National Posture...

  Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew while oil production dropped between the first and second quarters of 2024, according to official data. The GDP grew by 3.19 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of 2024, the National Bureau of Statistics has said. The Nigerian Bureau...

  The Nigerian government has prohibited candidates under the age of 18 from sitting for the National Examinations Council and West African Examinations Council examinations. The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, while speaking on a Channels Television programme on Sunday, August 25, said that WAEC and NECO have been...

  The Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dr. (Mrs)Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth has been recording a steady decline since 2014. Nigeria’s former Finance Minister disclosed this General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA on Sunday. According to her, the...

  The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, has said that a notorious kidnap kingpin was killed, and two abductors were arrested during an operation to rescue the 20 abducted medical students. Speaking while handing over the students to their Vice Chancellors in Abuja on Sunday, Egbetokun added that the...