Following the gradual easing of the Covid-19 lockdown nationwide by the Federal Government, Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has directed commands to gradually commence Migrant e-registration exercise from Wednesday, July 1, 2020. A statement issued by ...

The African Association of Cross Border Trade (AACBT) has sought collaboration with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) to facilitate trade among member states of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS). President of the Nigerian chapter of West Africa Association ...

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has asked the state task force on COVID-19 to open worship centres that run afoul of measures imposed by the state government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the state. He, however, urged ...

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Federal Government to as implement the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) emergency measures on the clean up of Ogoniland. Executive Director of ERA/FoEN, Dr. Godwin Ojo, said it was ...

‘Community pressurised company to act through NOSDRA, others’ The Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) has explained that the delay in the Joint Investigation Visit (JIV) and fixing of vandalised pipelines at its Taylor Creek oilfields in May 2020 was due ...

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration can rebuild confidence in its anti-corruption crusade by removing the veil of secrecy in the conduct of government business and respecting the right to information and free speech, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa ...

Worried by the slow pace of work at clean-up sites in Ogoni, Rivers State, stakeholders have decried the ‘politicisation’ of the exercise, which has dragged for five years. Urging the Federal Government to focus on the project, they called for ...

Finance ministry inaugurates task force on the full implementation of GIFMIS The Nigerian Shippers Council (NCS) has appealed to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to intervene in infrastructure development of the nation’s maritime sector to enable the country to ...

Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has advised officers of the agency to focus on national development, while in service. In a statement issued in Abuja and made available to newsmen, Public Relations Officer of the NIS, ...

Former Senate majority leader, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has canvassed the immediate adoption of part time legislative status for National Assembly members, insisting that all overhead costs and salaries of public servants with the exception of low salary earners be slashed. ...