The House of Representatives Committee on Public Account has scheduled December 15 for Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. (NNPCL) to appear and account for alleged revenue leakage in the company. Chairman of the committee, Rep. Bamidele Salam, gave the ruling in a hearing on Monday in Abuja, after the NNPCL management had failed to honour...
Concerned retirees on Monday appealed to the Ogun Government to suspend the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) policy. A retired public servant, Mr Daniel Akanji, speaking on behalf of the retirees during a protest at the government office in Abeokuta, said the policy was a failed expectation. Akanji alleged that the state government had shown a...
The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Monday said more than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X that the latest attacks on December 4, began with repeated strikes on a kindergarten in South Kordofan state. “Disturbingly, paramedics and responders...
The Chairman of Sabon Birni Local Government Area in Sokoto State, Alhaji Ayuba Hashimu, has refuted a Mosque attack alleging that an Imam and worshippers were killed in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a media platform had reported that bandits had stormed a Mosque in Sabon Birni town, killing the...
Benin’s President Patrice Talon has thanked army leaders for helping to defeat an attempted military coup in the West African nation.He also vowed that the mutineers would be punished. On Sunday morning, a group of soldiers calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation seized control of state television and announced that the government had been...
Nigeria’s premier gas distribution company, Shell Nigeria Gas Limited (SNG) is expanding its operations in Ogun State with an agreement to provide gas to SG Industrial FZE, a leading steel company in the Guandong industrial zone in the State. The agreement adds to a growing list of clients for SNG which has developed as a...
The Police Command in Anambra has condemned the attack on a Church carried out by armed criminals which resulted in the death of one person and leaving several others injured. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday in Awka. Ikenga said that the incident happened in...
The National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday hosted a high-level United States Congressional delegation in Abuja as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation on counter-terrorism and regional security. The visit follows earlier engagements between Ribadu and U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., where both sides discussed shared security priorities. The Congressional team...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria’s military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by the Government of Benin Republic to save its 35-year-old democracy from coup plotters who struck at dawn today. According to a statement issued by presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga on Sunday, acting on two separate requests...
Prince Kassim Afegbua, Edo state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, says Gov. Monday Okpebholo of Edo has defied early scepticism with massive infrastructure projects. Afegbua said in a statement on Sunday in Benin that the development drive, which had become unprecedented, had earned the governor a widespread commendation. “Initially underrated during the election period, the...
A cross section of Nigerians have lamented the soaring prices of Christmas decorations as the festive season approaches. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that Christmas decorations have become unaffordable for the average income earner. Mrs Chinaza Okafor, a business woman, said the sale of Christmas decorations had been...
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has expressed concern over the spate of speed-induced crashes on major arterial routes across the State. The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, said this in a statement on Monday in Lagos. Bakare-Oki was reacting to the lone-vehicle crash at the Lekki Toll Gate inward Sand-field corridor,...
The Borno State Police Command has averted a potential explosion in Maiduguri following the recovery and neutralisation of an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) discovered beneath a telecommunications mast. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Nahum Anipr, said in a statement on Monday that the device was found at Chuskon, Federal Low Cost Area,...
By Kayode Adebiyi, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) President Bola Tinubu recently ordered the withdrawal of police personnel from protecting very important persons (VIPs) in order to free up more operatives for deployment amid spike in insecurity across the country. The order, along with declaring a state of emergency on security, is part of measures...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a sitting president has the power to declare a state of emergency in any state of the federation in a bid to forestall breakdown of law and order or a descent into chaos or anarchy. Justice Mohammed Idris in a split judgement ruled that Section 305 of the...
