President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council have announced the scrapping of the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development. According to a tweet by the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday, the decision was reached during the FEC meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday. […]
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Abia state chapter, has rejected a tax policy for church signposts in the state. The Christian body lamented that, as a Christian and God’s own state, it is regrettable that Abia is the only state in Nigeria that is taxing churches on their signposts. In a letter titled ‘Taxation […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reduced Nigeria’s growth prospects over low crude oil production and severe flooding among other challenges currently bedevilling the country’s economy. The fund, in its recently published World Economic Outlook (WEO), noted that “Nigeria’s growth prospects for 2024 dropped to 2.9% from 3.3%” published in its last report. It blamed […]
MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest telecom operator, has stressed the urgent need for the telecommunications sector to return to profitability to sustain its operations. The Chief Executive Officer of MTN, Karl Toriola, made this known on Monday during a tour of MTN’s facilities by Fellows of the Media Innovation Programme in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. The MTN […]
Wednesday 22 October 2024 Supreme Court Reserves Judgment In Govs’ Suit Challenging EFCC’s Legality Fubara, Adeleke, Other PDP Govs Meet In Abuja Over Party Crisis Five NAF Personnel, 14 Other Travellers Killed In Plateau Accident Computer-Based WASSCE Starts Friday, Says WAEC Court Bars Kano Commission From Conducting LG Election Senate Investigates NDLEA’s Allegations Against Lawmaker […]
Israel’s army confirmed Tuesday it “eliminated” Hezbollah’s Hashem Safieddine, an apparent successor of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago. “It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head […]
In a significant development, a Kano State Hisbah Board official, Malam Aliyu Dakata, has retracted earlier claims that led to widespread allegations of misconduct against Jigawa State’s Commissioner of Special Duties, Auwal Sankara. The viral allegation which had portrayed Sankara in a negative light, has now been debunked, clearing his name of any inappropriate behaviour […]
Five personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) were among 19 travellers who lost their lives in an auto crash at Hawan Kibo in the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State on Tuesday. “The unfortunate incident occurred around Hawan Kibo along the Jos-Akwanga Express Road,” said NAF spokesman Olusola Akinboyewa in a statement. “Our […]
A Kano State Upper Shari’a Court has ordered the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone One to investigate the suspended Jigawa State commissioner, Danladi Sankara, over allegations of enticing married woman, Tasleem Baba Nabegu. The judge, Ibrahim Sarki Yola, gave the order following a direct complaint filed before the court by the husband of the first […]
Hooded men in black shirts and trousers have killed two persons in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State. The incident, The Nation gathered, occured around Old Express off Sameck junction, near a popular slaughter within the area in Aba North local government area. While one of them was simply identified as a caretaker of […]
