Category: News

Sierra Leone Ratifies China Railway, Port Lease Agreement
May 16, 2021 No Responses

Sierra Leone Ratifies China Railway, Port Lease Agreement

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has ratified the China Kingho Company’s rail and port lease agreement, the company told Xinhua on Saturday.  The agreement will allow Kingho Railway and Port Company Limited to manage and operate the infrastructure of the...
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NCC Commiserates With Board Chairman Over Daughter’s Passage
May 15, 2021 No Responses

NCC Commiserates With Board Chairman Over Daughter’s Passage

The Board, Management and entire staff of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) express grief and commiserate with the Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande over the passage of his daughter, Miss...
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Customs Confirms Three Dead In Clash With Smugglers
May 15, 2021 No Responses

Customs Confirms Three Dead In Clash With Smugglers

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, on Friday confirmed the death of three persons while repelling smugglers’ attempt to abduct an officer on duty  No fewer than four persons were hit on Thursday in Iseyin area...
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Greece Ends Lockdown, Opens To Tourists
May 15, 2021 No Responses

Greece Ends Lockdown, Opens To Tourists

Greece has launched its tourist season, lifting most remaining restrictions on movement and declaring “we are putting the lockdown behind us”. Although an average of 2,000 daily Covid cases are still being reported, vaccinations are being rolled ou...
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Nollywood Produces 416 Movies In Q1
May 15, 2021 No Responses

Nollywood Produces 416 Movies In Q1

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has disclosed that Nollywood produced 416 movies in Quarter One of 2021 (Q1, 2021) compared to 903 in Q4, 2020.  NBS said this in the “Nollywood Movies Production Data – Q2 2017 to Q1...
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NIMASA Takes Delivery Of Special Mission Aircraft
May 14, 2021 No Responses

NIMASA Takes Delivery Of Special Mission Aircraft

A Special Mission Aircraft was received in Lagos on Wednesday, in the final phase of the delivery and installation of assets under the Deep Blue Project designed to secure Nigerian waters up to the Gulf of Guinea.      Director General...
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World Bank To Construct 13.16km Lagos Farm Roads
May 14, 2021 No Responses

World Bank To Construct 13.16km Lagos Farm Roads

Lagos State Government says its World Bank-assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement, Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project will construct 13.16km Farm Access Roads (FARs) in four cluster areas.  The state Commissioner for Agriculture,...
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Buhari Mourns Dogonyaro
May 14, 2021 No Responses

Buhari Mourns Dogonyaro

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of the former Chief of Defence Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro.  The president made his feelings known in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Thursday. ...
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Eid-Al Fitr: Buhari Felicitates With Nigerians, Urges Unity
May 13, 2021 No Responses

Eid-Al Fitr: Buhari Felicitates With Nigerians, Urges Unity

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on all Nigerians to unite and shun calls for separatism fuelled by religious differences. The President made the call in his message celebrating the end of the Ramadan fasting month and observance of the Eid...
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UK Implores Nigeria On Tariff Exemption For Solar Equipment
May 12, 2021 No Responses

UK Implores Nigeria On Tariff Exemption For Solar Equipment

The United Kingdom has urged the Federal Government to consider the issuance of tariff and duty exemption on solar equipment to accelerate Nigeria’s energy access and low carbon energy transition. This was made known in a communique issued on Tuesday...
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Southern Nigeria Bans Open Grazing
May 12, 2021 No Responses

Southern Nigeria Bans Open Grazing

Seventeen Governors of all the 17 states in Southern Nigeria rose from their meeting on security, at Asaba, Delta State, on Tuesday, and resolved to immediately ban the movement of cattle on foot to their territory as well as outlawing...
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APC Felicitates With Muslims On Eid-el Fitri
May 12, 2021 No Responses

APC Felicitates With Muslims On Eid-el Fitri

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Edo State has felicitated with Muslims in the state as they commemorate the Eid-el-Fitr celebration.  This is contained in a statement in Benin on Wednesday, by Mr Victor Osehobo, Assistant state Publicity Secretary o...
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ASABA, DELTA STATE, ON TUESDAY, 11TH MAY, 2021
May 12, 2021 No Responses

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS OF SOUTHERN NIGERIA IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ASABA, DELTA STATE, ON TUESDAY, 11TH MAY, 2021

At its meeting, held today, 11th May, 2021, the Southern Governors Forum reviewed the situation in the nation generally and focused on the current security situation, agitations/restructuring, prospect for inter-state collaboration and partnerships as well as ...
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Maize Farmers Promise High Produce, Urge FG To Sustain Import Ban
May 11, 2021 No Responses

Maize Farmers Promise High Produce, Urge FG To Sustain Import Ban

The National President of Maize Association of Nigeria, Dr Bello Abubakar,  has assured the nation of high produce of maize to meet demands in spite of all odds.  Speaking in Abuja on Monday at the inauguration of the first National Maize...
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