City News Archives — Page 19 of 39

January 23, 2021 No Responses

FRSC To Introduce Digital Driver’s Licence

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi on Friday, announced the corps plan to introduce a digital driver’s licence that would guard against theft. Oyeyemi made the announcement in Abuja at the year’s first strategy session of...

January 21, 2021 No Responses

Nigeria Acquires Three Aircraft For Maritime Operations

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has acquire three new aircraft for maritime operations in the Niger Delta. The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, disclosed this at the inauguration of a block of 30 one-bedroom living quarters...

January 21, 2021 No Responses

NDDC Begins Talent Hunt for Niger Delta Youths

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is set to roll out a talent hunt programme to discover and expose creative youths and women of the Niger Delta region to take advantage of the thriving entertainment industry. Speaking during a meeting....

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,...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

January 14, 2021 No Responses

SIFAX Group Rewards 46 Staff

SIFAX Group, a group of companies with investment in Maritime, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Haulage & Logistics, Financial Services and Hospitality, has rewarded and honoured 46 staff at its annual Long Service Award ceremony. The SIFAX Group L...

January 13, 2021 No Responses

Court Remands Hairstylist For Allegedly Beating Up Ex-Husband

A Grade I Area Court in Kubwa, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year old hairstylist, Gift Paul, who allegedly beat up her former husband be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Paul with criminal trespass, assault and...

January 11, 2021 No Responses

Cars 45 Photo News

L-R Centre Operations Supervisor, Margret Ene Idoko; Manager, Contact Centre & Customer Experience, Joseph Anozie; CEO,Cars45, Soumobroto ‘Sunny’ Ganguly; Centre Operations Supervisor, Blessing Onoh and Quality Assurance Lead, Damilola Ojuron...

January 8, 2021 No Responses

Kano Earmarks N45b For Education In 2021

The Kano State Government has earmarked N45.6 billion in the 2021 tagged ‘Budget for Economic Recovery and Sustainable Development’ for the education sector. The Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning , Alhaji Nura Dankadai, said this while addressi...

January 7, 2021 No Responses

Customs Generates N1.5trn Revenue In 2020

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it generated the sum of N1.5 trillion for the year 2020. The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Attah said the amount realised...

January 3, 2021 No Responses

Rivers To Inaugurate Six Roads, Jetty

The Rivers State Government has concluded arrangement to inaugurates six completed road projects in seven Local Government Areas (LGA) of the State. The state Commissioner of Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, who an...

December 29, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: Lagos To Inaugurate 10 Oxygen Centres

The Lagos State Government will inaugurate 10 Oxygen and Sampling centres to improve management of severe-to-critical COVID-19 cases. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this during a media briefing on the update of the...