My aides did not go into hiding to evade EFCC arrest — Okorocha
Former Imo Governor Rochas Okorocha has denied reports claiming that some of his aides had gone into hiding to evade arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A media report had claimed that aides of the former governor had disappeared from the state ostensibly to avoid being arrested by personnel of the anti-corruption […]
TAAT-WEC targets 1000 farmers on new water conservation
Prof. Henry Igbadun, Programme Leader for Irrigation, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), says the institute in collaboration with International Water Management Institute is targeting 1,000 farmers in the newly introduced water conservation technologies. Igbadun made the disclosure on the sideline of a field visit to TAAT-WEC In-situ water harvesting in sorghum demonstration farms at Janfalan […]
2.5m children suffering acute malnutrition in Nigeria – UNICEF
Luminous Jannamike – Maiduguri The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that about 2.5 million children under the age of five in Nigeria suffer severe acute malnutrition. UNICEF’s nutrition specialist, Ms. Abigail Nyukuri, stated this at a two-day media dialogue on an integrated and timely response to nutrition-related humanitarian needs, organised in Maiduguri, […]
BREAKING: UK court grants stay of execution on P&ID’s $9.6bn award
Asks FG to pay $200 million security for stay Soni Daniel The United Kingdom (UK) Commercial and Arbitration Court on Thursday granted a stay of execution of the earlier judgment asking the Nigerian government to pay the sum of $9.6 billion to Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID) over a failed Gas Supply and Processing […]
“We inherited 4bn debt for medical equipment supplied to Ibom Specilaist hospital “
By Harris Emanuel, Uyo Akwa Ibom government says it inherited a debt of N4 billion from the previous administration for the medical equipment procured for the Ibom Special hospital. It explains that the total cost of the equipment was about N7.3 billion “found in the books” adding that the debt now stands at N1.3 billion […]
DPR seals 8 filling stations, others in Ondo, Ekiti
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it has sealed eight erring fuel and gas stations in Ondo and Ekiti states over alleged sharp practices and other various offences. Mr Adewale Oseni, the Operations Controller of DPR, Akure field office, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Akure at the end of a two-day surveillance […]
