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House of Representatives, yesterday, urged the Federal Ministries of Education and Health to collaborate and develop a mandatory drug testing program for secondary school students in Nigeria. It also urged the National Orientation Agency and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to increase awareness about substance abuse among secondary school students nationwide. These resolutions followed […]
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri yesterday in Abuja inaugurated the 4th Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB. The NCDMB Governing Council is set up under the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development, NOGICD, Act and draws membership from representatives of select institutions connected with […]
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Doha, Qatar on an official visit to the Middle East country. Tinubu, who left Lagos after inaugurating the Lagos Red Line yesterday afternoon, landed in Doha at 9:35 pm. The media aide to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement on Wednesday, had said the visit, which was on […]
REUBEN MOUKA Nigerian Communications Commission has ruled out an extension of the February ending deadline for the linkage of Subscriber Identity Module cards to National Identification Numbers. As a result, telecommunication companies have been directed to bar 12 million lines which have not been linked to the owners’ NINs after the expiration of the deadline. […]
The Central Bank Governor, Yemi Cordoso has acknowledged what he called the glaring defects in the apex bank, and attributed it to the prevailing cash scarcity witnessed in the country. The CBN Governor, who spoke yesterday at the launch of the World Bank Nigeria Development update in Abuja, observed what he called critical flaw in […]
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says the electoral umpire has no candidate in the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. In a statement yesterday, the electoral chief pledged to ensure a level playing field for all political parties and candidates in the elections. He also […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has set out to support effective dry-season farming across the country. Minister for Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari made this known in Lagos, when he undertook a tour of the Apapa Bulk Terminal Facility of Flour Mills of Nigeria PIc. According to the Minister, who […]
The Presidency has reacted to the former Labour Party Presidential Candidate; Peter Obi’s content of the press conference that was held yesterday in Abuja. in a statement by special adviser to the president on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the presidency urged Mr Peter Obi to move away from what it called Obi’s delusion. The […]
Awa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno has felicitated the Serving Overseer, Pastor Simeon Afolabi and members of First Love Assembly as they mark 25th Anniversary. In his message of felicitation at the grand finale of a 5-day convention commemorating the church’s anniversary, held at the church’s Headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, he described […]
Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered the distribution of an additional two hundred and twenty operational vehicles, including water cannons, armoured personnel carriers, helmets, bulletproof vests, and tear gas canisters to the three states where elections will hold this weekend. Force Public Relations Officer at Force Headquarters, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who spoke in […]
