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The Managing Director of The Nigerian Ports Authority NPA Hadiza Bala Usman,  has said it would stop at nothing in promoting professionalism, enhancing the welfare and wellbeing of its staffers who it believes are crucial to the country’s attainment of ...

The current Director-General/CEO of NIMASA, Nigeria’s principal maritime regulatory authority, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, who doubles as chairman of the Association of African Maritime Administrations AAMA, has been in the vanguard of developing and harnessing the blue economic potential in the ...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) spent N170 million on this year’s general elections. Speaking in Kano while opening a two-day 2019 post-election review workshop, Yakubu ...

The 1 Division of the Nigerian Army has recovered and handed over 14 sheep and 120 cows believed to have been rustled along Kaduna-Abuja highway to the Kaduna State Government. The division’s Garrison Commander of the Division, Brigadier General Jimmy ...

Global investment in renewable from 2010 to 2019 is to hit  $2.6 trillion, with more Gigawatts of solar power capacity installed than any other generation technology, the Global trend in Renewable Energy Investment 2019 report has shown. In the document ...

The Cross River State Election Petition Tribunal has dismissed five additional petitions in the state and ruled in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had filled the petitions against PDP candidates challenging ...

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria has lamented the increasingly violent conflicts in the country, which has resulted in wanton destruction of lives and property. This follows its establishment of a weekly live radio programme in seven states ...

Stakeholders have identified the cumbersome procurement processes in awarding contracts and non-payment of firms handling the project as reasons for the delay in the cleanup of Ogoniland. They spoke yesterday at a joint meeting of Governing Council and Board of ...

A 60-year-old man, Charles Jide-Oni, who claimed to be a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University (O.A.U), Ile Ife, Osun State, was arraigned at a Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly obtaining money under false pretence and advance fee fraud. ...

Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that taxes contributed 60 per cent of revenues distributed at the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in the last three months. Fowler gave the hint when Chairman ...