A supermarket operated by Chinese nationals has been shut down in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission closed Panda Supermarket because of its alleged discriminatory practices against non-Asians and as a cautionary step following the outbreak of coronavirus in China. FCCPC said it confirmed the allegations against supermarket located in […]
Nigerian Government has approved the payment of N33,000 as monthly allowance for members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, disclosed this during a session with some corps members at the service’s Bauchi State Secretariat. He explained that the approval was made in line with the implementation […]
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe Wednesday asked Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over spike in insecurity in the country. “If you want to treat an issue, you go to the head. We did not appoint the IG or the security chiefs. We will go to the president and ask him to resign,” Abaribe said.
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has promised that he would not disappoint all the lawmakers who defected from their various parties to the party he belongs to, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Uzodinma, in a statement on Wednesday, by his chief press secretary Oguwike Nwachukwu, said he would collaborate with them to make the state […]
Some sections of the Lagos popular Balogun market have been razed by fire on Wednesday morning. “A major fire outbreak has been reported in Martins street, Lagos Island,” Lagos State governor spokesman Gbenga Akosile tweeted. Akosile said the a combined team of the state safety workers are on ground to curtail the spread of the […]
Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the North, Rev. Yakubu Pam, has said that Leah Sharibu remains a worthy ambassador of Jesus Christ even amid persecution by Boko Haram on account of her faith. He insisted that whatever might have happened to her in the cause of her captivity in the last […]
The Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Warri, Dr. John Afahera, has said that the country has adopted corruption as a department in its polity. Speaking at the thanksgiving service by the Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Area Commission (DESOPADEC) Askia Ogieh, at St. Matthias Catholic Church, Uzere, Isoko South Council, the cleric expressed concern […]
• Gov orders arrest of Fulani leaders Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, yesterday spat fire over the recent killings in the state, declaring that he is not taking the matter lying low. He stated this during a stakeholders meeting at Little Rayfield, Government House, Jos following the alleged gruesome murder of no few than […]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja charged public servants and government officials not to be afraid of audit if they have done the right thing. He encouraged them to see audit as a means of improving their performance and not as a threat. The President stated this at the opening of the second edition of […]