The Nigerian Navy has appointed new Principal Staff Officers and Flag Officers Commanding to head various Commands in the country.
Browsing: News
Select a news topic from the list below, then select a news article to read.
Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, the FRSC Corps Marshal, said that the Corps with Special Marshals would carry out the assignment during the festive period.
Alhaji Bashir Ahmad, the Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
Commercial and social activities were disrupted in Okitipupa, Ondo State, on Wednesday as over 1000 youths held a peaceful march to protest 10 years of total power outage in the area.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Sule Kazaure, and the NYSC over the “failure to publish specific documents and information on Minister of Finance Mrs Kemi Adeosun’s application for NYSC exemption, and seeking to compel them to explain if Adeosun obtained any Exemption Certificate from the NYSC.”
Our correspondent, who visited the school on Wednesday, met students racing out of the premises to meet the deadline given them to vacate.
Early in the day, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead but did not visit out of apparent consideration for ties with South Korea and China.
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this while briefing newsmen after the FEC meeting presided over by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday in Abuja.
A member of the union, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria that they were usually paid N25,000 as bonus every Sallah, Easter or Christmas celebrations but they have not received anything since the last Sallah (Eid-el-Fitr).
Okei-Odumakin spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria against the backdrop of INEC’s extension of the CVR by two weeks.
Ambode made the call at a security Round table event organised by the Yoruba Koya Movement in Lagos.
A Venezuelan archbishop, who served as Pope Francis’ ambassador to Mozambique was named on Wednesday as the Vatican’s new substitute of the Secretariat of State. The head of the Secretariat of State is considered the Vatican’s unofficial prime minister, and the substitute can be compared to a chief of staff position.
The embassy in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja maintained that its Consulate Office in Lagos was not affected by the development.
Overah disclosed this in Asaba on Wednesday while presenting the stewardship of his ministry in the last one year during a news conference.
IPAC National Chairman, Mohammed Nalado, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria that the extension was an indication that INEC did not want any eligible Nigerian to be disenfranchised.
At a joint news conference by the organisations on Wednesday in Jos, Bulus Dabit, the State Director of NOA in Plateau, said the target would be achieved through mass mobilisation campaigns.
Hauwa Salihu, the NHRC’s Zonal Coordinator, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano that out of the 101 cases, 75 were completed while 26 were ongoing.
The Jigawa Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alhaji Kabiru Ali, said that the state spent N50millon in buying chemicals used to spray and quell Quelea birds in 2017.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that more than 100 girls from the school were kidnapped by unknown gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram religious sect, in February 2018.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the purported fake news indicates that the President had already transmitted a letter to the National Assembly to this effect.