President Bola Tinubu has secured an investment of $600 million from Danish shipping and logistics company A.P. Moller-Maersk to expand existing port infrastructure to accommodate more container shipping services in Nigerian ports. Chairman of A.P. Moller-Maersk, Mr. Robert Maersk Uggla, disclosed the decision during a meeting with President Tinubu on the sidelines of the World…
Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has announced the reopening of nursing schools in the state for safer medical and health practices. Governor Alia made the call during a thanksgiving mass in his honour at St. Gabriel’s Parish, Iorkighir,Tse Agberagba, in Konshisha LGA of Benue. According to him, the schools will be upgraded to…
Authorities in Adamawa State have been alerted to an influx of large herds of cattle into Shellenge, a local government area south of the capital, Yola. A pro-peace non-government organisation, Peace Architecture Dialogue (PAD), which said the herds were fleeing insecurity in Borno State, expressed concern that they pose security threats to their new neighbourhoods….
The Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has commended the efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to apprehend and prosecute the immediate past governors of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over an alleged N80.2 billion fraud. This is just as she also hailed the EFCC chairman,…
The Minister of Works, Engr.David Umahi, has threatened to terminate over 870 billion Naira contracts with five firms handling the Lokoja-Benin Road. Umahi directed the contractors handling sections I-IV of the Lokoja-Benin Road in Kogi and Edo states, to immediately sign the documents on the reviewed contracts or face the termination of their jobs. The…
A coalition of non-profit organizations have called on the government to provide subsidies and exempt menstrual pads from taxes to enhance menstrual hygiene among women and girls nationwide. The group feared that women and girls might go down with avoidable diseases emanating from alternatives to menstrual pad. The organisations had formed a movement tagged “Untax…
The Returning Officer for the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the April 20 governorship primaries in Ward 10 of Akoko Southwest Local Council area of Ondo State, Alaba Abe, popularly known as ‘Excel’, has been killed by unknown gunmen. The incident took place on Saturday night around 9:00 p.m. in front of the deceased residence in Supare-Akoko…
The former Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, has kicked against the establishment of State Police, declaring that Nigeria would “go down” if governors had such powers. “I won’t support the idea of having a Police Force controlled by the governors. It is not good for Nigeria. “The Inspector-General of Police has said that Nigeria is…
The Abia State Ministry of Environment has frowned at the behavior of some security personnel during its monthly environmental sanitation, advising them against engaging in lawbreaking activities. One such act includes carrying defaulters inside their vehicles during cleanup hours. The state’s Commissioner for Environment, Mr Philomen Ogbonna, gave the advice in Umuahia on Saturday, while…
President Bola Tinubu has expressed his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims of the fire incident caused by an articulated vehicle conveying petroleum product at the Eleme section of the East-West Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Commiserating with the government and people of Rivers State on this tragedy, which resulted in the…
