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September 19, 2024 No Responses

EFCC Harps On Enhanced Ethics In Accounting Profession

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged accountants across the country to show greater regard for the ethics of their profession and observance of the country’s financial regulations. He gave the...

September 19, 2024 No Responses

Tinubu Congratulates Hamzat At 60

President Bola Tinubu celebrates the 60th birthday of the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, whom he describes as his esteemed colleague and trusted friend. In a special tribute released today, President Tinubu says that Hamzat’s contribu...

September 18, 2024 No Responses

Humanitarian Crises: Why Nigeria Needs Collective Response, By UN Rep, Fall

Mohamed Malick Fall is the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria. In this exclusive interview, he speaks on the need for a collective response to humanitarian crises in Nigeria, obstacles to humanitarian interventions, and the work of...

September 18, 2024 No Responses

NAFDAC Shuts Down Cosmetics Factory

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down an illegal factory producing counterfeit cosmetic products at Benue Plaza, Trade Fair Complex in Lagos State. In a post on its X handle on Tuesday, NAFDAC...

September 18, 2024 No Responses

Floods: NDDC To Builds Six Multi-Purpose Emergency Shelters

The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has disclosed that the Commission in building six multi-purpose emergency shelters in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the even...

September 17, 2024 No Responses

NNPCL/TotalEnergies’ $550m Ubeta Upstream Gas Project Takes Off

The $550 million upstream gas project between the NNPC Ltd and TotalEnergies on the development of the Ubeta field has taken off, the Presidency announced on Tuesday.Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen, disclosed this during an inaugural....

September 17, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Creates Disaster Relief Fund For Flood Victims

President Bola Tinubu on Monday announced a disaster relief fund in Maiduguri, Borno State, to assist Nigerian citizens impacted by floods and other disasters. He said the relief fund is already expedient as the climate becomes more unpredictable and many...

September 17, 2024 No Responses

Stop Filming Accident Scenes, Chi-Nwaoha, Celebrity Marshal Leader, Advises Nigerians

The National Head, Celebrity Special Marshals Unit of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Julie Chi-Nwaoha has appealed to all state chapters of the Celebrity Special Marshals of the FRSC to help use their status to change the attitude of...

September 17, 2024 No Responses

Okonjo-Iweala Seeks Second Term As WTO DG

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organization, will seek a second four-year term when her mandate expires next August, her spokesman said Monday. “We can confirm that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has officially announ...

September 16, 2024 No Responses

Edo 2024: The Case For Continuity And Sustainability

By Marcel Okeke — By virtually all performance indices, the Godwin Obaseki-led administration in Edo State has done exceptionally well in nearly eight years. Indeed, without equivocation, the ‘Heartbeat of the Nation’ has joined the league of...

September 16, 2024 No Responses

NNPC Replies Dangote Refinery, Restates N898 Per Litre Transaction

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), on Monday morning insisted that it bought Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as Petro from Dangote refinery at N898 per litre. In a statement issued on Monday morning, Chief Corporate Communi...

September 16, 2024 No Responses

Nigeria Declares 281 Inmates Missing

The Nigerian Correctional Service has declared 281 inmates missing in the medium correctional centre in Maiduguri after the evacuation of inmates by officers of the service with support from sister security agencies. A statement by the service spokesman Abubak...

September 15, 2024 No Responses

Dangote Refinery: Lagos Pledges Effective Traffic Management

The Lagos State Government has pledged comprehensive traffic management strategies as part of measures to guarantee uninterrupted traffic flow along the Lekki-Ajah corridor, given Dangote Refinery’s commencement of the distribution of refined petrol from...

September 15, 2024 No Responses

Edo 2024: Atiku, PDP Govs, Damagun, Others Rally Support For Ighodalo

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general election, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa; Acting National Chairman of the PDP, Iliya Damagum and Governors of the PDP, on Saturday, stormed Beni...