Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Solid Minerals to hasten the process of issuance of Certificate of Occupancy to the Nigerian Air Force, Makurdi. Governor Ortom gave the directive Monday, 24th January, 2022 at the Benue Peoples House when he received the new...
Money to go into safety net for the poor — AbdulRazaq Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday received another N263,327,800 funds recovered from some officials of the previous administration, saying the money would go into funding social investment programme. That brings to roughly N373m the looted funds so far...
As NEC endorses ward development programme to hasten social protection at grassroots President directs setting up of national steering committee to oversee implementation Orders transfer of Surveyor-General's office to presidency for seamless execution of legacy projects President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday charged state governors to prioritise the welfare...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has solicited collaboration with the Nigerian Army (NA) in capacity development. The Commandant General NSCDC, Dr Ahmed Audi made the appeal when he led senior officers of the Corps on a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant...
The managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Usman, has denied having a romantic relationship with the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, saying no such affair helped her clinch the NPA top job. Usman, chief of staff to El-Rufai from 2015 to 2016, spoke on the subject...
The Chief of Staff to the Minister of Youth Development, Hon. Mohammed Funsho Abdullahi, has described Nigeria as a nation of vast opportunities whose future lies in the effective development of its youthful population. Hon. Abdullahi made this assertion on Wednesday while delivering the keynote address at the launch of...
The House of Representatives has begun the process of amending the 1999 Constitution to raise the minimum educational qualification to contest for elective offices in the country to a university degree. The current position of the law is that a person seeking to become the President of Nigeria should possess...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the procedure for the appointment of new permanent secretaries to fill the existing vacancies in 16 states of the federation. In a statement signed by Mrs. Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, Director of Information, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), on Tuesday in...
charges new monarch to be accessible, receptive, responsive Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday, presented staff of office to the newly crowned Orimolusi of Ijebu Igbo, Oba Lawrence Jaiyeoba Adebajo, enjoining him to be accessible, receptive and responsive to the yearnings of the Ijebu Igbo people. The governor equally...
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, said Nigerians deserve palliative measures to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Abubakar, in a statement, also pledged to provide N50m to a relief fund for Nigerians. The former VP’s statement read in part, “Nigerians deserve palliative measures (amid the coronavirus pandemic). To this...