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…
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday felicitated with a former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, on his 80th birthday. The president, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, congratulated the scholar, administrator, publisher and highly resourceful diplomat on the milestone. Buhari joined the academia and the media in celebrating with the former…
Igbo clerics, monarchs and elders under the aegis of South-East Council of Traditional Rulers and Representatives of Igbo Archbishops and Bishops on peace and conflict resolution, on Monday, decried that Imo State has become a war zone due to the continued space of violence and killings largely caused by selfish political leaders in the state….
The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, on Monday, expressed sadness over the death of Kano politician and former candidate of the National Republican Convention on June 12, 1993, presidential election, Bashir Tofa, describing him as “An indefatigable defender of North’s dignity and values.” The Forum in a condolence message issued by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy,…
