The Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Garba Abari, disclosed that his agency is willing and available to work with the tobacco control community to ensure that tobacco products are effectively controlled in the country. The Director-General made this commitment when a delegation of tobacco control advocates from the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance […]

As global food production faces challenges, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Thursday, assured farmers of the Revised National Seed Policy 2021 as a game-changer for their productivity and profitability

By Ogalah Ibrahim The Police Public Relations Officer, Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah says many terrorists have been feared killed in a foiled attack by its tactical team while rescuing victims abducted by the hoodlums at Wapa Village in Kurfi Local Government Area of the State. early hours of today, Friday. According to the […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja The Minister  of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said yesterday  that N6.210 trillion was paid as fuel subsidy to independent oil marketers from 2013 to 2021. She, however, said the her ministry paid N1.774 trillion from 2013 to 2016, while the rest came under PMS under-recovery by the Nigerian […]

It was all shades of Glamour and Joy last Saturday, August 13 as Powerhouse Nigerian gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo and her Husband, Pastor Blessed of Water Brooks Church, tied the knot in a church ceremony. The white wedding also held in Port-Harcourt had friends, family, colleagues, and celebrities such as Banky W, Adesua Etomi, Moses Bliss, Waje, Joe Praize, […]

*As FCCPC develops framework, guidelines for digital lending By Yinka Kolawole The Federal Competition and Consumers Protection Commission, FCCPC, has directed payment systems operators, PSOs, such as Flutterwave, Opay, Paystack and Monify, as well as telecommunication companies, including Mobile Network Operators, MNOs, in Nigeria to stop providing support that enables the operations of illegal digital […]

The Police Command in Zamfara has arrested two suspects for allegedly extorting N5 million from the people of Yar-Katsina village, to facilitate the deployment of security personnel to the community. This is contained in a statement issued in Gusau on Thursday by the command Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu. He said that one of […]

No writer in possession of all of his faculties will celebrate any Nigerian university, particularly a public one at this critical time; arguably, this will be the most troubling question on the lips of my reading audience. In the truest sense, no one should do so at a period when thousands of students who are […]

By Emma Ujah Transactions on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) digital currency, e-Naira, platform has hit N4billion since its launch in October, last year.  Giving this update at the grand finale of the e-Naira Hackathon event in Abuja yesterday, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, stated: “Since the launch of this great initiative, the e-Naira has reached […]

…appeals for speedy passage of bill to legalize outfit’s operations By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja  Commander-General, Nigeria Hunters and Forest Security Services, Joshua Osatimehin, Thursday, said that native intelligence was the strategy deployed by their agency to arrest 302 bandits with sophisticated weapons in Niger State. He said that Nigerian hunters had been well trained and therefore […]