“In some areas of the Niger Delta, it’s become a warfare of sorts,” the NNPCL said. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) on Tuesday said 149 incidents of crude theft were recorded across the Niger Delta in the past week. The oil firm said this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. The company […]
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Minister of education, Tahir Maman, has said Nigeria currently has a deficit of 950,000 teachers and 20,000 classrooms, a situation that further compounds the many challenges facing the nation’s education. Professor Maman also said the federal government has gotten a $700 million World Bank support fund for adolescent girls earmarked for learning and empowerment scheme, […]
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, in Minna, Niger State, reiterated his government’s commitment to transforming and reviving the nation’s ailing economy and pleaded with Nigerians to bear with his administration, saying “the hardship will soon be over.” The President while declaring open the 1st Niger state green economy, said the present administration was aware of the […]
The president had in August set up the committee to review the fiscal system and the tax administration in the country. President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday in Abuja received the ‘Quick Win Report’ on fiscal policy and tax reforms from the committee tasked with improving the nation’s revenue profile and business environment. Responding to a […]
Mr Wike gave the warning when the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), led by its President, Chris Isiguzo, visited him in Abuja. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, gave a final warning to defaulters of ground rent payment in the FCT, insisting that something would happen. […]
He said the troops’ onslaught killed many of the terrorists, while others fled with gunshot wounds. The Nigerian Army says the troops of the 8 Division Garrison, on Tuesday, killed several terrorists in a discreet operation at Tukandu Village in Sokoto State. The Director of Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement […]
-Cllr. Gongloe alarms Liberia People’s Party (LPP) Political Leader Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe has descended upon Commissioners at the National Elections Commission (NEC) hours after the Board of Commissioners announced November 14, as the date for the Presidential runoff between incumbent President George Weah and former Vice President Joseph Boakai, saying the date is wrong […]
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Liberia: Cummings Undecided
-After meeting Weah and Boakai separately Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) Political Leader Mr. Alexander B. Cummings is said to be undecided following meetings with both incumbent President George Weah and former Vice President Joseph Boakai ahead of the November 14, 2023, Presidential runoff. The pending presidential runoff is a repeat of the 2017 Presidential runoff […]
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Nigeria: The Shame of ‘Baby Factories’
Offenders should be brought to justice In the latest of what has become a scandalous business in human trafficking and associated crimes in Nigeria, military troops from the 14 Brigade of Nigerian Army recently rescued 22 girls from the facility of a ‘baby factory’ at Umunkpei Nvosi community in Abia State. Twenty one of them […]
Inflows adding up to $10 billion are to come in in the weeks ahead, said Special Adviser to the President on Economic Affairs Tope Fasua The Nigerian Government expects to clear $6.8 billion in payables from forward contracts to which the Central Bank of Nigeria is a party in order to succour the naira and […]
The Liberian electoral commission also announced the resumption of political campaigns for the run-off election. Liberia’s election management body, the National Election Commission (NEC), on Tuesday, announced that the presidential election run-off will take place on 14 November. This is following the inability of any of the 20 candidates to secure more than 50 per […]
Graham Hopwood, the excutive director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), says unless Namibia takes measures to safeguard the upstream petroleum sector from corrupt influences, the country risks following in the footsteps of Angola and Nigeria. He said this in response to a statement presidential spokesperson Alfredo Hengari released on Sunday, rejecting concerns […]
Liberian coffee farmers are harvesting quality coffee beans this year due to the application of improved practices on old coffee farms that have been abandoned for years. Many of the coffee farms are more than 50 years old. Though the coffee sector has been neglected, farmers who are still somewhat engaged in the cultivation of […]
Federal government has urged tertiary institutions of learning to prioritise Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses to facilitate Nigeria’s development. In a press statement signed by the head, press and protocol, Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Mrs Anastasia Ogbonna, stated that President Bola Tinubu who was represented by the Minister of […]
Federal government has announced a policy review aimed at enhancing transparency and efficiency in the process of contract awards. The minister of education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mamman said the central objective […]
…. As runoff campaign period which is expected to be at least two weeks will also be announced. The National Elections Commission is expected to finally announce the results of the October 10 polls today, which have seen President George Weah neck and neck — with runoff elections all but certain. The article should state […]
For raping his wife’s niece, a Lagos doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Femi Olaleye, the managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece. The judge, Rahman Oshodi, of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence court in Lagos found the doctor guilty on […]
The government said security agencies had been alerted and charged to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act. The Ebonyi State Government has reacted to the gruesome murder of a school principal and his teacher by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, describing it as “condemnable”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the principal, Simon Ominyi, […]