The need to boost broadband penetration from its present coverage of 37.8 percent to over 70 percent in the next five years is the pedestal for the new National Broadband Plan (NBP):2020-2025, according to Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami.
Besides this, the Minister said, pervasive...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has directed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to immediately implement measures aimed at re-positioning the broadcast industry with a view to sanitizing the industry, creating jobs, promoting local content, boosting the advert industry and bringing the broadcast industry up to...
A cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has urged Nigerians to stop celebrating enemies of the country.
Bakare made the appeal during the first Sunday Thanksgiving Service of the year at the Citadel, also known as the Latter Rain Church in Ikeja.
According to the cleric, this is a decade of a new...
A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who is serving a 12-year imprisonment for N7.1bn fraud and money laundering, has prayed the Court of Appeal in Lagos to grant him bail, pending the hearing of his appeal.
Kalu, who was convicted of the offences by Justice Mohammad Idris on...
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Burkina Faso of Nigeria’s and other West African countries’ solidarity after it was attacked by suspected terrorists.
Burkina Faso, on Tuesday, suffered a devastating attack, to which it lost 35 of its citizens.
Seven soldiers and 80 armed fighters were also killed in Tuesday’s double attack...
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the alleged execution of four aid workers by terrorists in North-eastern Nigeria.
He said that the defeat of evil by good is inevitable, no matter the pyrrhic victory evildoers seem to win.
The President disclosed this in a statement by Mr Femi Adeshina, Special Adviser on...
The federal government said it has paid the October and November allowances of beneficiaries of the N-Power programme.
It said the payment was made before December, 20 as earlier promised.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, made this known on Saturday in a statement sent...
Plateau state Governor Simon Lalong on Tuesday said his administration would continue to promote golf in order to develop the tourism and other economic potentials of the state.
”We are determined to support golf until Plateau becomes home of golf in Nigeria.”
The Governor spoke at the Lamingo Golf course in...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services.
A statement by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, confirmed this on Friday.
The...
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of the new chairman and members of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
His message was conveyed in a letter which was read out by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, at the start of plenary on Tuesday.
The presidency on Wednesday...
