Says intelligence critical to curbing insurgency, attacks against citizens President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has urged the security agencies to partner and collaborate among themselves especially in the sharing of intelligence. Lawan gave the advice on Thursday when he received in audience, Course 14 Participants from the National Institute for Security Studies, led by […]

As rig count stands at 6 – Report By Udeme Akpan THERE are indications that oil exploration has dropped by 150 per cent in Nigeria in the past year, due mainly to the prolonged delay in the passage of the nation’s Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB into law. The PIB, still before the National Assembly aimed […]

By Tordue Salem, Abuja The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has flagged off the Federal Government’s Cash Grant to about 1,800 beneficiaries in Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of Lagos State. The Speaker, according to a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Lanre Lasisi, addressed the beneficiaries […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja A joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Police Affairs yesterday approved N11 billion for the Nigerian Police Trust Fund. Chairman, Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Haliru Dauda Fika who chaired the joint Committee announced the approval. He hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for the establishment of the Nigerian Police Trust […]

By Sebastine Obasi Major oil marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN is advocating for the initiatives that can be taken to ease the impact of the subsidy removal on the most vulnerable in the society. Mr. Adetunji Oyebanji, Chairman MOMAN, who stated this during a virtual media interaction stated that anyone involved in the fuel supply […]

Shina Abubakar – Osogbo For allegedly digging a family land, three persons, Fasasi Tejumade, 30; Toyin Odekanle, 40, and Taiwo Oladimeji, 40, were on Thursday docked before an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court over alleged malicious damage. Police prosecutor Elijah Adesina told the court that the defendants wilfully damaged and destroyed an acre of land belonging to […]

…Nigeria has lost one of its exemplary political leaders and administrators, Lawan …Jakande is a Personification of True Greatness,  Omo- Agege By Henry Umoru PRESIDENT the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, said Thursday that with the death of Second Republic Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, Nigeria has lost one of its exemplary political […]

By Joseph Erunke PROF. Olufemi Peters on Thursday assumed office as the fifth Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), succeeding Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five-year tenure ended on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. In a brief handover ceremony held at the university’s headquarters in Abuja, Peters, who was elected the Vice-Chancellor on […]

By Joseph Erunke Professor Olufemi Peters on Thursday assumed office as the fifth Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), succeeding Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, whose five-year tenure ended on Wednesday, February 10, 2021. In a brief handover ceremony held at the university’s headquarters in Abuja, Peters, who was elected the Vice-Chancellor on […]

Dr Ogbonnya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, said in Abuja on Thursday that food security was very critical to Nigeria and that the nation must be well positioned to feed itself. Onu said Nigeria’s burgeoning population meant that its inability to feed its citizens would create problems for the country and also for the […]