President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Hadiza Bala Usman for a second and final term of four years in office as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). This is even as the president also approved the reconstitution of the ...
Read More »Ekweremadu, others kick over South East’s exclusion from $22.7b loan
Eight days after the Senate approved the $22.7 loan request for President Muhammadu Buhari, federal lawmakers from the South East geo-political zone yesterday called on the leadership of the National Assembly to accommodate the region in the facility. A report ...
Read More »Lawan canvasses proper planning to check multiplicity of development agencies
Worried about the moves by the six geopolitical zones to individually have their areas urbanised through development commissions, Senate President Ahmad Lawan has charged the Federal Government to address the challenge through a structured national planning. Besides the Niger Delta ...
Read More »Navy promises safer waterways, delivers seized drums of diesel to A’Ibom Civil Defence
The Nigerian Navy has restated its determination to sanitise the waterways for hitch-free legitimate maritime activities. Its Commanding Officer for Forward Operation Base (FOB), Ibaka in Mbo Local Council of Akwa Ibom State, Captain Peter Yilme, renewed the pledge yesterday ...
Read More »Lawyers, ex-minister others fault bill to outlaw generators
Prominent Nigerians have opposed the proposed bill in the Senate to prosecute persons who import, sell and use electricity generating sets in the country. Tagged: “A Bill for an Act to prohibit/ban the importation/ use generating sets,” it was sponsored ...
Read More »TETFund refutes alleged diversion of research grants by lecturers
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has refuted alleged diversion of research grants by some lecturers in Nigerian universities. This was contained in a letter sent to the Managing Director of Premium Times by Acting Director of Research and Development and Centres ...
Read More »Court declares APC NEC meeting without Ajimobi, others invalid
A Federal High Court, Lagos has declared that a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for next week Tuesday must not hold without former Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, Waziri Bulama and Paul Chukwuma. ...
Read More »Ihedioha suspends visit to Imo as PDP denies planning protests
Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha has suspended his planned visit to the state in preparation for award congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After weighing the options of possible breakdown of law and order by some ...
Read More »Sanwo-Olu urges corps members to embrace SAED programme
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged the 2020 Batch A, Stream One National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) members to take advantage of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme to become economically independent after their mandatory one-year service. ...
Read More »COVID-19 may force review of Delta 2020 budget, says Governor Okowa
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that the state government may be forced to review the 2020 budget due to the dwindling oil revenue occasioned by the outbreak COVID-19 and its effect on global economy. Okowa, who hinted that ...
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