Category: State News

Borno Appoints New Heads For Maiduguri Flour Mills, Borno Express
June 24, 2020 No Responses

Borno Appoints New Heads For Maiduguri Flour Mills, Borno Express

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has approved the appointment of Mr Mohammed Bukar as General Manager, Maiduguri Flour Mills. Spokesman for the Governor, Malam Isa Gusau in a statement on Wednesday explained that Zulum has also approved the appointment...
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Adamawa Earmarks N550m Fertilizer For 2020 Farming Season
June 24, 2020 No Responses

Adamawa Earmarks N550m Fertilizer For 2020 Farming Season

The Adamawa Government has earmarked the sum of  N550 million  to buy  fertilizer for the 2020 farming season. The  Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Umar Pella, disclosed this shortly after the State Executive Council’s ...
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Delta Seaports To Receive Seven Vessels Laden With Diesel, General Cargoes
June 24, 2020 No Responses

Delta Seaports To Receive Seven Vessels Laden With Diesel, General Cargoes

Seven ships conveying diesel and other items are expected at the Delta Seaports between June 25 and June 30, 2020.  In its daily publication, ‘Shipping Position’, Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) on Wednesday explained that the vessels include MT Tornado...
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Okowa Constitutes Panel Of Enquiry On Okpe-Urhobo Forest Reserve Dispute
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Okowa Constitutes Panel Of Enquiry On Okpe-Urhobo Forest Reserve Dispute

Governor  Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Thursday inaugurated a seven-member Judicial Panel of Enquiry to establish the ownership of Okpe-Urhobo forest reserve, particularly the purported de-reserved area. Okowa, who performed the ceremony at Government House, As...
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Borno Recruits 30 Doctors, 100 Nurses, Midwives
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Borno Recruits 30 Doctors, 100 Nurses, Midwives

The Borno Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, on Thursday said the state government has recruited over 30 doctors and 100 nurses and midwives within the past one year. Speaking on Thursday in Maiduguri, Kwaya-Bura explained that.....
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COVID-19: NLNG Donates $300,000 Medical Equipment To Lagos State
June 18, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: NLNG Donates $300,000 Medical Equipment To Lagos State

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) on Thursday donated medical equipment to the Lagos State Government as part of its contribution to the $30 million Oil and Gas Industry Collaborative Initiative, spearheaded by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to fight ...
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Ekiti Farmers Seek Soft Loans, Tractors
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Ekiti Farmers Seek Soft Loans, Tractors

Farmers in Ido-Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government area of Ekiti State on Thursday  appealed to the state government to assist them with soft loans and tractors to boost their agricultural production. The Chairman of Ekiti State Farmers Association, Ido-Osi ch...
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Presco Extends Palliatives To 22 Host Communities In Edo, Delta States
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Presco Extends Palliatives To 22 Host Communities In Edo, Delta States

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), foremost vegetable oils and fats producer in Nigeria, Presco Plc has delivered palliatives to its host communities across Edo and Delta States.  A statement issued on Thursday by the Relations Manager ...
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Police Record 42 Rape Cases In Kano
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Police Record 42 Rape Cases In Kano

The Police Command in Kano State, said it recorded 42 rape cases in the state between January and May. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abdullahi Haruna, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
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BUA Threatens Dangote Group With Contempt Of Court
June 17, 2020 No Responses

BUA Threatens Dangote Group With Contempt Of Court

BUA Group on Wednesday threatened to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Dangote in three days, if it fails to remove the excavators and trenches used in barricading the entrance of Obu Mines. The BUA Group, in a statement in...
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Delta Seeks N8b Loan To Boost Agriculture
June 17, 2020 No Responses

Delta Seeks N8b Loan To Boost Agriculture

The Delta State Government has granted its approval for the state to access eight billion naira loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to develop agriculture in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who made...
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Ondo Approves Recruitment Of 1000 Teachers, 432 Health Workers
June 17, 2020 No Responses

Ondo Approves Recruitment Of 1000 Teachers, 432 Health Workers

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the recruitment of 1000 teachers to fill vacant positions in the state’s primary education sector. The State Head of Service (HoS), Mr Dare Aragbaiye, disclosed this on Tuesday in Akure, during a...
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Lagos To Meet Telecoms Firms On E-Learning Data Subscription
June 17, 2020 No Responses

Lagos To Meet Telecoms Firms On E-Learning Data Subscription

The Lagos State Government is to hold a meeting with telecommunications service providers on the issue of data subscription as part of measures to boost e-learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on Tuesday during the Fifteenth Update on the Manageme...
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Kano To Reduce 2020 Budget By 30 Per Cent
June 16, 2020 No Responses

Kano To Reduce 2020 Budget By 30 Per Cent

The Kano State Government will reduce 2020 Budget by 30 per cent, Governor. Abduallahi Ganduje has said Ganduje made this known during at an interactive session with Journalists on Monday at the Government House, Kano. He explained that the reduction...
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