PUNCH NEWS Rivers State chapter of the National Youths Council of Nigeria has called on Governor Nyesom Wike to appoint two qualified persons to replace Prof. Princewill Chike and Dr Igbiks Tamuno, both of whom he sacked as Commissioners of…
PREMIUM TIMES The regulatory agencies investigating the November 5 oil spill at Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 at Nembe Bayelsa on Thursday attributed the spillage to sabotage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the accident polluted the Santa…
PREMIUM TIMES Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday that he believes that without addressing the problem of security, the country’s economy cannot grow. Mr Buhari stated this in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, while commissioning some projects. Nigeria has been…
PUNCH NEWS The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency, have destroyed 1,066,214 doses of expired AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccines were destroyed at…
THE GUARDIAN Only recently, Nigeria through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recorded a huge success at the introduction of eNaira as our digital currency. At the Enugu Branch of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria yearly Bankers Dinner…
PREMIUM TIMES The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has urged the National Assembly to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Amendment bill. The NBA had issued this statement a few days before Mr Buhari in a letter to the…
VANGUARD NEWS The House of Representatives has passed the 2022 budget into law. The House also increased figure from N16,391,023,917,692 to N17,126,873,917,692. Christened “Budget of Economic Growth and Sustainability”, it will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari presented the budget…
VANGUARD NEWS The Federal Government has declared Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th December 2021 and Monday, 3rd January 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. The declaration was contained in a statement issued…
THE TIDE NEWS With the latest N250billion Sukuk, the Debt Management Office (DMO), has successfully brought to close, the sum of N3.143trillion domestic borrowing contained in 2021 budget. All of the domestic borrowings had been realised prior to now say…
VANGUARD NEWS I WATCHED Governor Wike spend more than one hour of precious time on three national television networks paid for with Rivers tax payers’ money responding incoherently to an interview I granted earlier. It was a one hour that…
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