A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, will spend Christmas holiday with his family as he has been released from custody at the Kuje Correctional Centre after he met his bail conditions. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), Abubakar Umar, ...
The Senate, yesterday, confirmed the appointment of 11 new justices of the Supreme Court appointed by President Bola Tinubu to fill vacancies at the apex court.With the confirmation of the 11 justices, the Supreme Court now has the full complement of 21 justices on its bench, as required by law.The ...
More than N203 billion has been released so far by the federal government, through the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF), to fix facilities in 8, 800 primary healthcare centres out of the over 40,000 of such centres in the country. This leaves a gap of about 32,000 facilities that are ...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it has put in place additional measures to curb the incidence of unbranded cereals and other food items of industrial sizes.The food materials, it said, enter into the open markets from the warehouses of food manufacturing companies ...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), yesterday, said that it would conduct computer-based WASSCE for private candidates. WAEC, in a statement issued by its Public Affairs Department and signed by the Ag. Head Public Affairs WAEC, Moyosola F. Adesina, Yaba, Lagos, said that the registration for the examination would commence ...
Saudi Arabia has cancelled the visa of all the 264 passengers airlifted by Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace, on arrival in Jeddah from Kano and insisted that the airline should return them back to Nigeria. It later allowed 87 passengers to remain and insisted 177 should follow the Air Peace ...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Alaghodaro Economic Summit Limited/Gte, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, and other guests at the 2023 Alaghodaro Investment Summit have posited that Edo State has the potential ...
As part of efforts to boost foreign currency liquidity in the economy and strengthen foreign exchange (FX), the federal government has concluded plan to securitise about $7 billion of the country’s dividends from the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG). A top official in the present administration who disclosed this to ...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that he’s doing his possible best to entrench peace in the West Africa sub region and on the African continent which is bedevilled with menace of crisis. The ex-president, who met on Friday behind closed-doors with President Bola Tinubu at the State House, Abuja, ...
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a former Federal Permanent Secretary, Prof Tunji Olaopa, as the Chairman of the 12-member Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).This is in line with Section 154 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended) which empowers the President to ...
