buhariPresident Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Army to join the Police in flushing out bandits from forests around the country, particularly in areas that witnessed recent attacks. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Friday, said the president gave the directive in response to […]
FirstBank Plc has announced its donation of N1 billion towards the joint effort by the Nigerian Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) to rapidly expand health facilities. The fund was committed to testing, isolation, treatment and the provision of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities that are pivotal to controlling the spread and treating individuals diagnosed […]
The current dwindling of the nation’s fortunes in the oil and gas sector following the outbreak of the coronavirus has again brought to the fore the need to urgently reform the petroleum industry. Specifically, the lawmakers in the National Assembly are unhappy about the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit a revised version of […]
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has ordered a detailed investigation into alleged battery and rape of Elizabeth Oyeniyi by the Commissioner for Water Resources, Abdumumuni Danga. Narrating her ordeal to the Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, Oyeniyi, a Kogi beauty queen, said the commissioner abducted and battered her for advising him to be responsible to his family […]
The Federal Government has apologised for openly begging American billionaire businessman, Elon Musk, for ventilators. The President Muhammadu Buhari administration came under fire for the undignified manner it went about requesting between 100 and 500 ventilators from the United States citizen. Reacting, the Federal Ministry of Finance and National Planning on whose twitter account the […]