Kwara State Government has urged interested members of the public to collect forms to be engaged as vendors for the Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF). The Focal Person for the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) in Kwara State Mrs Basheerah AbdulRazaq said in a statement on Saturday that the...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said law enforcement agencies have recovered over N3.7billion as well as various assets worth billions of Naira from contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The President disclosed this at the inauguration of NDDC Advisory Committee, comprising the 9 Governors...
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja hailed the achievements of Nigerian women in different fields of endeavour, urging them to remain steadfast in their chosen vocations and be role models to the younger generation. The President gave the commendation during an audience with Dr Eleanor Nwadinobi, President of the Medical...
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday flagged off a marathon APC campaign tour crisscrossing various communities in Patigi Local Government ahead of Saturday’s by-election for the Patigi Constituency of the State House of Assembly. AbdulRazaq told locals how his administration is steadily changing the story of the area through...
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives to seek amendments to the Finance Act recently passed by the National Assembly. The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, read Buhari’s letter at the plenary on Tuesday, in which the President asked that the Act be amended to indicate that the new...
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...
Representatives of civil society groups, government and private institutions, and the media on Monday, asked the Senate to drop further consideration of the anti-social media bill, in the interest of Nigerians. Our correspondents observed that only three speakers out of the 62 individuals, institutions and groups, who submitted memorandum and...
The ousted emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi ll has said that his six years reign as the emir of the ancient city made him a fulfilled man in life. He equally said he was leaving the throne as a fulfilled and happy man. Sanusi ll, who dropped this message in Hausa...
Barely hours after the world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, began a global oil fight, Brent crude oil crashed by about 30 per cent, sending Nigeria into a revenue crisis. According to details on oil data site, Brent crude sold at $35.42 Monday morning. In December 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari signed...
The Kano State Government has announced the appointment of Aminu Bayero as the new Emir of Kano Mr Bayero, who is the son of late Emir Ado Bayero, was until his appointment the emir of Bichi, one of the controversial new emirates created by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje. The appointment comes a...