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UNITED KINGDOM NAMES NEW BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER TO NIGERIA.

The United Kingdom UK has appointed Richard Montgomery as the new British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Montgomery yesterday presented his credentials to President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja as he takes over from Catriona Laing who recently concluded her four years as High Commissioner in Abuja. Richard was the UK Executive Director at the World Bank Group Board from 2018 to 2022 in Washington DC, USA before […]

todayMay 19, 2023 158

National

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RENAMES MINISTRY OF AVIATION.

The Minister of Aviation Hadi Sirika has announced that the Federal Ministry of Aviation has been renamed as the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria. Sirika in his pronouncement yesterday in Abuja moments after the Federal Executive Council FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari explained that the alteration became expedient because it is on the exclusive list, linking the development to the establishment of the African Aerospace […]

todayMay 18, 2023 33

Economy

NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA ADVISES GOVERNORS: MOVE BEYOND CRUDE OIL DEPENDENCY.

The Director-General of the World Trade Organization WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has counselled incoming governors to stop depending on crude oil and diversify the sources of revenue in their respective states. Speaking during an induction organized for elected governors in Abuja, the former Minister of Finance highlighted that states that heavily depend on the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC would be badly affected when the country’s oil and gas no […]

todayMay 17, 2023 155

National

SENATE PASSES 876 BILLION NAIRA NDDC BUDGET.

The 9th Assembly yesterday passed the 876 billion Naira 2023 budget for the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, after a thorough debate that tends to bring out the impact of the commission on the people of the Niger Delta region in past years. In the overall budget of the commission, personnel expenditure will gulp 34.2 billion Naira, overhead expenditure will gulp 17 billion Naira, internal Capital expenditure will gulp 3.7 […]

todayMay 17, 2023 155

News

PRESIDENT BUHARI RETURNS TO NIGERIA AFTER EXTENDING HIS STAY IN UNITED KINGDOM.

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after an additional week in the United Kingdom UK where he had gone to attend the coronation of King Charles III and his Queen Consort, Camilla, of the United Kingdom. The President’s aircraft touched down at 4:45 pm yesterday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja from where he was flown to the Presidential Villa in a chopper. Buhari left Nigeria on […]

todayMay 17, 2023 85

National

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPROVES LICENSING OF 37 NEW UNIVERSITIES: EDUCATION MINISTER ADAMU ADAMU MAKES MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu says the Federal Government has approved the licensing of 37 new universities in the country. Adamu in his revelation yesterday after the extraordinary Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osibanjo noted that the development brings the total number of universities licensed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration since 2015 to 72. He didn’t name the universities but revealed that one […]

todayMay 16, 2023 115

Foreign

NEW ZEALAND MOURNS AS HOSTEL FIRE CLAIMS LIVES AND LEAVES MISSING PERSONS, PRIME MINISTER CHRIS HIPKINS SPEAKS OUT.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand Chris Hipkins has disclosed that not less than six people have died and others remain unaccounted for following a fire in a hostel. Emergency services were called to the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington just after midnight local time where dozens were rescued from the building, but police said several people remained unaccounted for. Upon arrival at the fire, firefighters found the top […]

todayMay 16, 2023 111

News

POLICE IGP VOWS TO ENSURE SMOOTH TRANSITION OF POWER.

The Inspector-General of Police IGP, Usman Baba says the May 29 inauguration of former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria remains sacrosanct and can’t be altered. Baba in a press briefing yesterday in Abuja promised to do everything possible alongside other security operatives to defend democracy, warning political actors trying to foment trouble or frustrate the inauguration of newly elected leaders to desist from such […]

todayMay 16, 2023 150

News

DELTA STATE POLICE APPREHEND KIDNAP GANG AND RECOVER FIREARM AND AMMUNITION.

Operatives of the Delta State Police Command’s Decoy Squad, led by Asp Julius Robinson on a sting operation, have arrested the 30-year-old leader of a kidnap gang, Emmanuel James, and a 25-year-old gang member, Ejiro Peter for allegedly kidnapping a couple of Okutonye Efetobore. The gang reportedly collected One million Naira ransom at Ughelli while another suspect, simply identified as Oh Lord escaped with bullet wounds. The Delta State Police […]

todayMay 15, 2023 110

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