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President Bola Tinubu has asked Qatari captains of industry to report any Nigerian official who demands any form of bribe before allowing them to do business in the country. He insisted that Nigeria would no longer be held back by its past dotted with bureaucratic bottlenecks and corruption that stifled the ease of doing business. […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
The Senate has confirmed three ministerial nominees, Jamila Ibrahim (Kwara State); Balarabe Lawal (Kaduna State); and Ayodele Olawande (Ondo State), in addition to the 45 approved by the Red Chamber in August. This comes a day after President Bola Tinubu wrote to the Senate, seeking its confirmation of the nominees. About two and a half hours after […]
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Anambra State, Queen Agwu, has said about 132,623 Permanent Voter Cards are yet to be claimed in the 21 local government areas of the state. Agwu stated this on Wednesday at the INEC headquarters in Awka, Anambra State, while raising concern about the situation. […]
The Senate will on Friday grill two deputy governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria over the cash withdrawal limit policy unveiled by the apex bank on Tuesday. The red chamber planned to seek clarifications on the new directive which restricts over-the-counter cash withdrawal by individuals and organisations to N100,000 and N500,000, respectively, per week. […]
