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The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta has said that NCC remitted over 344 billion naira into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government in the last five years. Danbatta stated this on Thursday while briefing the House of Representatives Committee on Telecommunications led by its Chairman, […]
The senate committee on power has uncovered 20 proposed electricity projects in Lau local government area, the home LGA of Mamman Saleh, minister of power. The committee members condemned the proposed projects during the 2021 budget proposal of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). The lawmakers also accused the minister of uneven distribution of projects under […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria’s economy is too fragile. The president in a tweet from his official tweeter handle warned that the nation cannot handle another round of lockdown hence the need to avert a second wave of Covid-19. “Looking at the trends in the other countries, we must do all we can […]
Eight months after Nigeria recorded its index case of COVID-19 on February 27, 2020, the number of persons who have recovered from the virus has now surpassed 58,000. Lagos accounts for close to half of the country’s total recoveries with 20,145 patients discharged in the state, although it also has the highest number of cases […]
The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has appealed to members of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers to halt their planned attacks on oil facilities in the region. Omo-Agege’s appeal, according to a statement by his media office on Wednesday, came on the heels of recent threats by a coalition of nine militant groups […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to desist from actions and comments that can jeopardise the unity and progress of the country. Buhari made the appeal on Wednesday during the launch of the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD) emblem and appeal fund. He said this year’s occasion reminds Nigerians of the need to […]
The Nigerian Air Force has arrested its officials caught on tape flogging residents who defaulted the curfew imposed on Osun State. NAF made this known in a series of tweets on Wednesday titled, ‘Alleged flogging of curfew defaulters in Ilesha, Osun State’. The Osun State Government had imposed a curfew on the state after hoodlums […]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to emerge winner of the competitive race. With support from 104 of all 164 member countries of the WTO, a path has been cleared for her to become the first woman and African to head the global […]
The West African Examinations Council has said the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination would be released next week. The results were supposed to be out today but the examination body said the postponement was due to the violence and arson in the country which affected some of its offices and […]
Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello has alledged that billions of Naira was siphoned during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Speaking on Tuesday during an interview, Gov. Bello blamed the level of hunger in Nigeria on the handling of the pandemic by those in charge. The governor also claimed that the #EndSars Protest […]
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