Opens screening points in Kaduna as Bayelsa gov Diri lauds scheme The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that it is doing everything possible to guide and guard corps members against contracting the dreaded coronavirus disease in camps across ...
Read More »Restoring Argungu fishing festival testimony of improved security, presidency declares
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that restoration of the Argungu Agricultural and Fishing Festival after 11 years of its suspension is a manifestation of improved security in the country. He stated this in his address at the official recognition of ...
Read More »Cabal with presidential ambition behind Oshiomhole’s travails, group insists
The Niger Delta Leaders and Stakeholders Forum (NDLSF) has alleged that a cabal nursing presidential ambition in 2023 is orchestrating the crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Canvassing support for the embattled National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, ...
Read More »Senators express concern as Finance Act scales second reading
Some senators have raised concerns that details of the Bill for an Act to amend the Finance Act, 2019 were not made available to them for their input as the upper legislative chamber passed it for second reading. Senate Minority ...
Read More »Diri woos Alaibe, others as court affirms him Bayelsa governor
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has extended an olive branch to his kinsman, Ndutimi Alaibe and other aggrieved contestants of last year’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary, urging them to forget the past and join him in building a ...
Read More »Ijaw youths fault inauguration of NDDC’s advisory committee without substantive board
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has berated President Mohammandu Buhari for inaugurating the advisory and monitoring committees for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) without a substantive board in place. It insisted that the committee’s inauguration was akin to building ...
Read More »House committee wants partnership with maritime stakeholders as NIWA vows to overhaul water transportation
House of Representatives Committee on Nigerian Navy has sought partnership with the Navy, sister agencies and other stakeholders to work towards enhancing and securing the maritime industry. Chairman of the committee, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi stated this at a stakeholders’ meeting ...
Read More »A’Ibom justice commissioner seeks resignation, prosecution of CP as 134 communities benefit from CSDP projects
Akwa Ibom State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Uwemedimo Nwoko, has demanded the resignation of the Commissioner of Police (CP), Imohimi Edgal for interfering with judicial process and violation of court order. He made this call in Uyo yesterday. ...
Read More »Lagos isolates four children, two adults over suspected cases of Covid-19
The Lagos State Government has said four children from the same family and their teacher who arrived the country from the United States of America (USA) have been quarantined for coronavirus. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at ...
Read More »Emefiele pledges CBN’s commitment to intervention in health sector
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele has said the apex bank is committed to full intervention in the health sector following outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. He stated this yesterday at a consultative round table ...
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