President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr Doyin Salami as Chief Economic Adviser to the President (CEAP). The president’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday. Salami, 59, Chairman of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, is also the Managing Director and Head Markets Practice at KAINOS Edge Consulting…
The Nigeria Customs Service, Sokoto/Zamfara command has called on the general public to always supports the Service in it’s efforts to fight the activities of economic saboteurs. The call was contained in a statement signed by the command Public relations officer, Tahir Balarabe, after an angry mob attack officials and facilities of the Nigeria Customs…
Senator Ali Ndume has tasked the Federal Government to ‘try and name’ Boko Haram terrorists and their sponsors this year. According to him, he was prosecuted by the federal government for allegedly sponsoring Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast. Ndume, representing Borno south senatorial district at the National Assembly; made the calls Tuesday at his…
The Kaduna State Government wishes to inform citizens that the ban on use of motorcycles (popularly known as “Okada”), for commercial or personal purposes, remains in place until further notice. Other containment measures which remain fully in place are listed as follows: i. Ban on wielding dangerous weapons. ii. Restriction on the movement of tricycles…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has assured of its commitment to further deepen ties with its host communities as it begins activities for 2022. NNPC gave the assurance through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC), one of its upstream subsidiaries. In achieving this, NPDC, recently organised a novel community support programme called…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged parents, schools and other stakeholders to inculcate in children societal core values which made the difference between a brute and decent man. Mohammed made the call at the cast of “Death and the King’s Horseman”, produced by the Founder, Terra Kulture, Bolanle Austen-Peters, on Monday in…
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said the recently approved Science, Technology and Innovation(STI) television station in Abuja would come into operation early 2022. Onu said this on Friday during an interview with news men. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the STI TV was recently granted a…
The Federal Government has called on entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the business community to invest more capital, innovation and ideas into the development of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Nigeria. The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, made the call on Friday in an interview with news men in Abuja. Onu…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) says Nigeria is not ripe to adopt direct primaries however beneficial it may appear to be. The IPAC, which is a pressure group of the 18 registered political parties in the country, said the National Assembly’s attempt to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill would…
The rift between Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is likely to affect the “rumoured” presidential ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) said this in a statement Monday by his director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. He said the…
