The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has earmarked N2.5 billion for the development of Wawa/Zange grazing reserve in Gombe. Dr Musa Inuwa, the Director in charge of the Gombe office of the ministry disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe on Friday. He said the money earmarked was for the construction […]
The drumbeat of welfare agitations is getting louder in the aviation industry. But more unions’ pressure on insolvent airlines may win the battle and lose the war. WOLE OYEBADE writes. The colossal losses in the aviation sector should not have come as a surprise. Air travel is a high end, tight budget industry where every […]
People walk on a flooded road at Okokomaiko in Ojo district of Lagos, on May 31, 2017. The Katsina State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said it registered 1,727 households that fall victim of flood in Baure Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Chairman of the Agency, Babangida Nasamu, told the News Agency of Nigeria […]
Students in Lagos State Government-owned schools will be promoted to the next classes using continuous assessments. “(For) the reopening (of schools) we’re doing, we are working with the Federal Government so I will not unilaterally say that we are doing this or that but we are planning,” Adefisayo said during a programme on Channels Television […]
The Senate Committee on Finance will begin the consideration of the 2020-2023 Medium Term Expenditure and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) on Wednesday next week. Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Sen Solomon Adeola, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the Senate Joint Committee on Finance and National Planning has dispatched invitations to Ministries, Departments and […]
Member representing Baraza Dass Constituency in Bauchi Assembly, Hon. Musa Mante, has been killed by suspected gunmen. The Nation learnt he was murdered on Thursday night in his residence in Dass Local Government Area. The Nation gathered the gunmen also reportedly abducted his wife. Details shortly…
BAYELSA State Governor Douye Diri has forwarded the names of 24 commissioner-nominees to the House of Assembly for confirmation as members of the State Executive Council (Exco). The list came six months as after the governor assumed office, following the disqualification of Governor-elect David Lyon by the Supreme Court before his inauguration. Three of the […]
THE Federal Government on Thursday said it would prosecute an architect who allegedly destroyed the concrete perimeter fence being erected at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. Covering about two kilometre, the fence is part of the ongoing rehabilitation of the airport. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said the perpetrator destroyed a “national security […]
A substantive commissioner for Oyo State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Idowu Oyeleke, took his oath of office yesterday. Idowu is taking the office after the death of Kehinde Ayoola, who died on May 14. Governor Seyi Makinde admonished Oyeleke to ensure his appointment benefits the state and not his political zone alone. Oyeleke […]
PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) in Ire-Ekiti, Oye Local Government of Ekiti State, has debunked news the crisis rocking the town was sponsored by it. The party wondered how the festival crisis could be dressed in a political garment, saying ‘PDP has no hand in it. It was absolutely a festival issue and not a political […]