Category: News

Pope To Biden: Foster Peace, Reconciliation In US, World
January 21, 2021 No Responses

Pope To Biden: Foster Peace, Reconciliation In US, World

Pope Francis opened his message to US President Joe Biden saying, “On the occasion of your inauguration as the fourty-sixth President of the United States of America, I extend cordial good wishes and the assurance of my prayers that Almighty...
read more
Nasarawa Unveils Fertilizer Sales For 2021 Dry Season Farming
January 20, 2021 No Responses

Nasarawa Unveils Fertilizer Sales For 2021 Dry Season Farming

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has launched fertilizer sales, at subsidized rate, to boost farmers’ efforts at dry season farming for improved agricultural production. Speaking in Lafia, on Tuesday, at the distribution ceremony for 20...
read more
Assembly Reacts To Alleged Plans To Impeach Diri Over N38b Refunds From FG
January 20, 2021 No Responses

Assembly Reacts To Alleged Plans To Impeach Diri Over N38b Refunds From FG

There are no plans to impeach Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, the State House ofAssembly, declared on Tuesday in Yenagoa.   Speaking at an interactive session with Journalists, the House Committee Chairman on Information, Hon Tari Porri...
read more
AfCFTA: Customs Awaits Report On List Of Duties, Charges For Waived Goods
January 20, 2021 No Responses

AfCFTA: Customs Awaits Report On List Of Duties, Charges For Waived Goods

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is waiting for National Action Committee (NAC) on the list of duties and charges waived for liberalised goods under African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The service made this known  in a statement issued by...
read more
SIFAX Group Gets Company Of The Year, Investor Of The Year Awards
January 20, 2021 No Responses

SIFAX Group Gets Company Of The Year, Investor Of The Year Awards

SIFAX Group has won two awards. The awards are Company of the Year and Investor of the Year 2020 awards. The award was bestowed on the company by the management of New Telegraph Newspaper at the Group’s corporate head office,...
read more
SON Destroys 2,000 Substandard Cooking Gas Cylinders
January 20, 2021 No Responses

SON Destroys 2,000 Substandard Cooking Gas Cylinders

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) destroyed more than 2,000 substandard cooking gas cylinders fabricated in Onitsha and its environs on Tuesday. Supervising the destruction in Enugu, Mr Obinna Manafa, the Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directo...
read more
Buhari Appoints Abubakar Fikpo NDE DG
January 19, 2021 No Responses

Buhari Appoints Abubakar Fikpo NDE DG

President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Malam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo as the acting Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), pending the appointment of a substantive Director-General for the Agency.  A statement by the president’s ...
read more
Lagos Secures Court Order To Auction 88 Forfeited Vehicles
January 19, 2021 No Responses

Lagos Secures Court Order To Auction 88 Forfeited Vehicles

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has obtained a Court order to auction 88 vehicles forfeited to the state government by violators of traffic rules.  The Chairman of the agency, CSP Shola Jejeloye, disclosed this in a...
read more
Singapore To Vaccinate 10,000 Maritime Workers
January 19, 2021 No Responses

Singapore To Vaccinate 10,000 Maritime Workers

Singapore has become one of the first nations to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations of frontline maritime personnel as part of its national vaccination strategy to protect frontline personnel.  Under the Sea – Air Vaccination Exercise (SAVE), over 10,000 ...
read more
UNICAL To Resume Feb 5
January 19, 2021 No Responses

UNICAL To Resume Feb 5

The Senate of the University of Calabar has announced Feb. 5  as its resumption date for the 2019/2020 Academic Session, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Florence Obi, has said. Obi, who disclosed this to newsmen at the end of the Senate’s...
read more
Institute Implores FG On Dry Season Farming
January 18, 2021 No Responses

Institute Implores FG On Dry Season Farming

The Institute for Agricultural Research at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Kaduna State, has called on the Federal Government and various tiers of Governments to boost dry season farming.  Director of the Institute, Prof. Mohammed Ishiyaku, in a chat...
read more
Ekiti Budgets N1.4b For Amotekun, N550m For Drones In 2021
January 18, 2021 No Responses

Ekiti Budgets N1.4b For Amotekun, N550m For Drones In 2021

The Ekiti Government, on Sunday reiterated its commitment to tackle growing insecurity in the state in 2021 especially kidnapping.   Under the arrangement, the State Government has voted N1.4billion for the State Security Network, codenamed Amotekun ...
read more
Lagos Extends Work-From-Home Order To February 1
January 17, 2021 No Responses

Lagos Extends Work-From-Home Order To February 1

The Lagos State Government has further extended the work-from-home order to all state public servants on Grade Levels 14 and below from Monday, January, 18, 2021 to Monday, February 1, 2021.   The State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave the directive...
read more
FG To Hold Stakeholders‘ Meeting On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Gridlock
January 17, 2021 No Responses

FG To Hold Stakeholders‘ Meeting On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Gridlock

Coordinating Director, Highway Construction and Rehabilitation in Nigeria, Mr Funsho Adebiyi,  on Saturday re-emphasised Federal government’s commitment to taming the incessant gridlock and truck menace on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Adebiyi ...
read more
1 … 333 334 335 336 337 … 650