Ijaw youths have threatened to shutdown operations of telecommunication companies over diesel supplies for power plants in Bayelsa State. The youths are said to be angry that indigenes of the state had allegedly been shut out of the companies’ multi-million ...
Read More »Federal Government acquires $100m loan from India for broadband project
Nigeria’s aspiration for universal Internet coverage and broadband expansion has received a boost with the materialisation of a $100 million loan from the Indian government. The facility, arranged by the EXIM Bank of India, followed a close collaboration between the ...
Read More »Presidential Directives on Ease of Doing Business in the ports TINCAN Customs Half Year Generates N179.2b
In line with the Presidential mandate, with the resolve by the Command to achieve speedy clearance of cargo from the Ports and also reduce the cost of doing business, The Nigeria customs Tincan Island port command generated a total of ...
Read More »NO PRESIDENT CAN ALLOCATE LANDS BY FORCE IN NIGERIA By uche Ogbonnaya
Prominent Igbo leader in Lagos and the Akajiofor Ndigbo of Ijagemo land in IBA lcda, High Chief Obi Gerald Njiofor, has asked Igbos and other Nigerians to remain calm in the face of the rising tension in the country about ...
Read More »Buhari commends foundation for investing in free health services, EU earmarks N344b in Imo
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Chanrai family for investing massively over the years to provide free health services to less-privileged Nigerians. Speaking yesterday at the commissioning of the Tulsi Chanrai Hospital in Abuja, the president said the family’s investments ...
Read More »Bayelsa Deputy Governor hinges bane of Vision 20:2020 on poor planning, execution
Bayelsa State deputy governor, RAdm. John Jonah, has identified lack of proper planning and poor execution as the bane of Nigeria’s dream of becoming one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. The deputy governor made ...
Read More »Sokoto Governor Tambuwal receives captors freed by bandits
Sokoto State Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has received a councilor, eight other indigenes of the state and a nursing mother who were captured by bandits in Zamfara State. He said during the reception ceremony at Government House yesterday that God ...
Read More »Edo PDP lauds Obaseki for determination to probe Oshiomhole’s administration
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has applauded Governor Godwin Obaseki’s resolve to probe former Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s administration, especially the contract of Edo Central Hospital. State Chairman of the party, Dan Orbih, said Obaseki’s decision has vindicated the alleged scam ...
Read More »Cross River State lawmakers seek lifting of forest moratorium
The Cross River State House of Assembly has joined other organisations in asking the state government to lift the moratorium placed on logging of woods in the state’s forests. Enforced by former Governor Liyel Imoke’s government, the moratorium was meant ...
Read More »Protesters besiege Imo government house, demand Okorocha’s probe, ex-gov urges Ihedioha to publish alleged looting
No fewer than 1,200 protesters besieged Government House, Owerri, demanding an immediate investigation of the immediate past Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged looting of the state’s resources amounting to N200 billion. The protesters comprised town unions of 645 autonomous communities ...
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