The former Head of Service, HoS, of Ondo State, Mr. Ajose Kudehinbu on Thurday came hard on the embattled Deputy Governor of the State, Hon. Agboola Ajayi, saying he is the least qualified to rule the state. Kudehinbu stated this as a comment on a pictorial post on the Facebook page of the Deputy Governor’s […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, reprimanded his service chiefs over their failure to curb worsening insecurity in the nation. In an unprecedented display of his disapproval of the situation, the President reportedly told the top military officers their best was not good enough. Nigerians who had long called for their sack however might be disappointed, as […]

Delta State Government has approved the setting up of a modular refinery, and commencement of work at an agro-industrial park in the state, which will be funded from an N8billion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The Government also appointed a committee to assess how the land occupied by the moribund Africa Timber […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Nigeria free of wild polio, following the completion of documentation for the free status. The UN health agency disclosed this on its regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, official twitter account @WHOAFRO. “Today, Nigeria’s complete documentation for Wild Polio virus free status was accepted by the Africa […]

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday advised Nigerians to obey its guidelines on coronavirus to avoid a resurgence of the virus during the rainy season. The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, who gave the warning during the task force press briefing in Abuja, said there […]

The Senate has berated the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for its over 210 per cent subsidy expenditure rise in two months – March to May 2018 – that skyrocketed from N774 million to N2.4 billion daily during the period. Chairman of its Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream and Upstream), Senator Sabo Muhammad Nakudu (APC […]

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the release of N1.157 billion for the payment of accrued pension rights to 368 public service retirees for the month of May. He said the approval was part of the government’s commitment to ensure the retirees are well-taken care of after their meritorious service to the government and […]

The Federal Government has pledged to bail out the local aviation sector with a sum of N27 billion as part of measures to restart air travel and keep the airports safer.The sum, already proposed to some of the operators, will besides supporting the airlines, also fast-track the establishment of a private sector-driven national carrier. The […]

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in New York elected Nigeria along with 17 other countries into the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new ECOSOC members will serve for three years with effect from Jan.1, 2021. Checks by NAN shows that this […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently holding a meeting with service chiefs at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The service chiefs, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, arrived at the seat of power in the early hours of Thursday and proceeded to the Council Chambers. President Buhari, who joined […]

With alarming figure of 717 reported cases of rape between January and May, the Federal Government has promised to do everything possible to stem the growing tide of the “pandemic”. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the pledge on Thursday in Abuja when officials of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State yesterday engaged one another in invectives over the cargo airport project. The opposition PDP alleged that the project was a fraudulent ploy by the Governor Kayode Fayemi administration to milk-dry the state’s treasury, describing it as ‘utopian’. The state PDP Caretaker […]