As Stakeholders discuss strategies to secure Kwara Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday said social inclusion, youths empowerment, and timely administration of justice are key to fostering peace and development in any society. "We will definitely continue to give the necessary and complementary logistic support to our security agencies....
The re-appointment of the entire executive management of Nigeria Export-Import (NEXIM) Bank has been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. The re-appointment follows the fact that the members of the current management of the bank were appointed on 10th April, 2017 and their first five-year term is due to expire on...
All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has commiserated with Lagosians and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the Lekki toll plaza incident and the hijack of the #EndSARS protests by hoodlums who destroyed private and government properties. He sympathised with those who lost their loved ones in the...
The Kwara State Government has settled the ₦22.5Million outstanding Licence Fee to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which accumulated since 2006. The state governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, gave the approval for the immediate payment of the ₦22.5m to the Commission. The state Commissioner for Communications, Hon. Olabode George Towoju, in a...
His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma has renamed the popular Heroes Square Stadium in the heart of Owerri, the Imo State capital, after the late Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, the first Military Administrator of the Old Imo State. Governor Uzodimma disclosed this at a brief ceremony to receive the body of...
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, Tuesday, announced suspension of ongoing rehabilitation work at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. Senator Sirika, who made the announcement when he inspected the airport, said procurement was suspended because workers of the construction company, PW, handling the project left the site to...
17 Chinese, 9 locals, traditional chief to be prosecuted The Osun State Joint Task Force (JTF), recently inaugurated by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, has apprehended 27 illegal miners, comprising 17 Chinese nationals and 10 locals, including a local traditional chief (Baale). They were arrested following a coordinated sting operation around Ilesa...
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has vowed to pursue and recapture all inmates who escaped from the Abolongo Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, on Friday night during a vicious attack on the facility by yet to be identified gunmen. The Minister gave the assurance whilst making...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, approved a total sum of N21,107,212,510, for various projects including that of Aviation and Education Ministries, among others. Briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, alongside Special...
In what may be termed the first soothing news of 2020, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, on Monday reiterated Federal Government’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty this year, in line with a pledge earlier made by President Muhammadu Buhari...