A meeting of the Governors of the North, the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, as well as the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, is currently in progress in Kaduna State. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar lll, is […]
The Minister of Aviation , Senator Hadi Sirika, said on Monday that the Federal Government would soon start the disbursement of the N 5bn bailout it approved for the operators of the Aviation sector. Sirika stated this at the opening of a three – day public hearing on the six executive bills meant to reorganise […]
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Monday said leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu cannot intimidate him. He said he is not Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was harassed by IPOB members when he traveled out of the country. Wike was reacting to alleged threat to his life by Kanu whenever […]
Enhanced security measures were seen across the U.S., a country that is bracing for possible violence related to the high-stakes presidential election with election day a few hours away. In Washington, D.C., shopfronts are boarding up their windows with plywood or putting up other makeshift barriers, some of them stretching nearly entire blocks. John Falcicchio, […]
In what looked like an attack against literacy and free speech, gunmen stormed Kabul University ahead of the opening of a book fair on Monday 2 November, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than a dozen others. Though no reason has been given for the attack, it is believed that the gunmen struck […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Monday said it has granted approval for two mobile network operators (MNOs), MTN Nigeria and 9Mobile, to carry out trial on the workability of embedded Subscriber Identification Modules (e-SIM) Service in Nigeria. The regulatory body added that the trial would run for a period of one year, noting that it […]
The Presiding Judge, Owerri Judicial division of the National Industrial Court, His Lordship, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Galadima has declared the purported disengagement of Njoku Fidelia Ada and 460 other workers from the Public Service on the basis that they are non-indigenes of Abia State as a violation of the 1999 constitution and against the Public […]
…insists on fine …NIPR appeals for review of sanctions The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, yesterday, insisted that the three broadcast stations recently sanctioned acted irresponsibly in their coverage of the #ENDSARS protests and is not going back on the sanctions. Director-General of the NBC, Professor Armstrong Idachaba, who stated this when members of the Nigerian […]
The electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in the country have begun the implementation of the new electricity tariff. The DisCos began implementation of a new service-based reflective tariff (SRT) structure nationwide on September 1 after receiving approval from President Muhammadu Buhari. However, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) protested the new […]
Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, says the federal government has approved the sum of N4 billion as bailout funds for airlines to cushion the effects of COVID-19 on the country’s aviation industry. Appearing before the senate committee on aviation on Monday, Sirika noted that most of the airlines are having challenges paying workers’ salaries. The […]
