Benue and Nasarawa states have made a pledge to keep the peace and unity between both states in the face of obvious threats to their security, unity and brotherliness. This was the consensus yesterday when Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa ...
Read More »Agency increases financial support for UK businesses in Nigeria
United Kingdom (UK) Export Finance (UKEF), the export finance agency of the UK government, has confirmed that it has doubled the country’s limit for companies desiring to do business with Nigeria from £750m to £1.25b. UKEF has also entered into ...
Read More »Kwara reviews budget, gov AbdulRazaq insists on addressing people’s needs
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has insisted that the state’s budget must address people’s needs. He directed top civil servants to meet him at the state’s school of special needs for the review of their budgets. The governor said he ...
Read More »APC might lose Kogi, Edo, others over chieftains’ face-off, party chief forewarns
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena, has raised the alarm that the ruling party might lose the gubernatorial elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo and Anambra states holding between this year and next on ...
Read More »Sultan of Sokoto, Chukwuma, others lament dimension of nation’s insecurity
Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Reverend Emmanuel Chukwuma have expressed worries over the new dimension of insecurity in the country. The Sultan cautioned that Nigerians must sit together to find ...
Read More »I will continue to fight financial misconduct, Magu insists
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has insisted that he would continue to fight financial impunity, vowing that perpetrators of corruption would not go unpunished. In a live programme yesterday in Ilorin, Magu, represented ...
Read More »Nigeria to earn $10b from new oil deal, Lawan queries presidency on status of modular refineries
Nigeria is to earn over $10.2 billion in royalties and taxes from the development of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 13 in the next 15 years courtesy of a $3.15 billion Financing and Technical Services Agreement signed between the Nigerian Petroleum ...
Read More »Federal Government to invest more in technology for development, President Buhari declares
President Muhammadu Buhari has said channeling more investment to Nigeria’s technological sector, and opening up space for creativity and innovation with digital skills would play a significant role in providing jobs for youths and growing the economy. Receiving a letter ...
Read More »Boris Johnson emerges UK’s new prime minister, he’ll be great, says U.S. President Trump
Boris Johnson is today succeeding Theresa May as British Prime Minister after winning the two-horse race Conservatives (Tory) party leadership race with an overwhelming vote of 92,153 to defeat Jeremy Hunt, who polled 46,656 ballots. Johnson, who had been the ...
Read More »Police Recover Arms, Arrest Five Armed Robbery Suspects, And 38 Cult Members.
Operatives of Operation Crush acting on credible intelligence raided some criminal hideouts within Akerele areas, Agege. The raid, led to the arrest of thirty-four suspects known as ”awawa boys”, who have been terrorising the areas while 7 bags of weeds, ...
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