Taraba state governor, Darius Ishaku has sworn in 23 Commissioner nominees six months after assuming office as governor of the state for a second term.

The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the Federal competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, yesterday, commenced a mass reorientation to raise safety consciousness among drivers and commuters in order to ensure orderliness and smooth movement during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.

U.S. President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron clashed over the future of NATO on Tuesday before a summit intended to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Western military alliance. In sharp exchanges underlining discord in a transatlantic bloc hailed by backers as the most successful military pact in history, Trump demanded that Europe […]

The Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Wednesday,stated that it is seeking a review of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development, NOGICD, Act to enable it extend the enforcement of local content to ongoing railway projects across the country.

Hyundai Motor plans to invest about 61.1 trillion won ($51.81 billion) between 2020 and 2025, the company said on Wednesday, with a third of the expenditure focused on electric and autonomous vehicles, but analysts want to see it deliver. The South Korean car maker unveiled a “Strategy 2025” roadmap that envisages annual average spending of […]

Rescuers have retrieved the body of a Kenyan teenage girl who drowned as she tried to save a man who was drowning in a swollen river in Kenya. Nineteen-year-old Ann Nduku fell into a River Kandisi in Ongata Rongai, on the outskirts of the capital Nairobi on Tuesday. Ms Nduku was responding to the cries […]

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping aside as leaders of the Internet behemoth they founded 21 years ago, ending an extraordinary run that saw them build one of the world’s most valuable and influential companies. Trusted lieutenant Sundar Pichai, who has run the core Google search business since 2015, will immediately take […]

The theme for this year’s International Day for People with Disabilities, IDPD is ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’. In January 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018. The Act states that all employers of […]

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani called on Wednesday for the release of any unarmed and innocent people who were detained during protests against gasoline price hikes, after two weeks of violent protests. The protests, which began on Nov. 15 after the government abruptly raised fuel prices by as much as 300%, spread to more than 100 […]

By Adeola Badru The immediate-past Special Adviser to former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Education, Science and Technology, Dr Bisi Akin-Alabi, will on Saturday, 7, 2019, chair a community development day, tagged: “Delesolu Descendants Re-Union Day.” According to a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan on Wednesday, the event will feature lecture […]

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has presented the 2020 appropriation budget estimated at N176, 123, 091, 931 covering both recurrent and capital expenditures of N78,969,128,737 (44.84%) and N97,153,963,194 (55.16%) respectively. The budget was presented on Wednesday at the Kogi State Assembly chamber by the Deputy Governor, Honourable Edward Onoja on the governor’s behalf. The […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday launched the new national security strategy to tackle security challenges in the country 

 Onozure Dania The trial of the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, at the Federal High Court, Lagos, was stalled on Wednesday due to the absence of the senator. Ubah and his company, Capital Oil and Gas Limited were arraigned by the Federal Government for alleged N135 billion fraud. When the […]

In recognition of his outstanding contributions, the Chief Executive and Managing Director of Nigeria’s luxury real estate brand, Sujimoto Construction Limited, Mr. Sijibomi Ogundele was awarded as patron of New Oko-Oba Primary school in Lagos, this is following his donation of learning materials and commitment to the renovation of school buildings by the renowned luxury […]

For her outstanding contribution in the empowerment of the female gender for self sustainable  through the provision of capacity building platform to help women for the discovery and accomplishment of goal, both at the grassroots and social level, Esther Ijewere, founder of Rubies Ink Initiative for Women and Children and editor-in-chief of multiple award-winning blog Women of Rubies, has won the Social Innovation award at the recently-held Voice of Women Conference organized by Wfm.917,at the NAF Conference, Abuja on November 19th, 2019.