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President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new leadership for the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education.   Brigadier-General Lawal Ja’afar Isa (Rtd) is now to serve as the Chairman of the Board of the Commission, while Dr. Idris Muhammad Sani is to serve as the Executive Secretary/CEO.   General Ja’afar […]

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says voice and data services affected by undersea cable cuts along the Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal coasts have been restored.   In a Monday statement, the NCC Director of Public Affairs, Rueben Muoka, said that services have now been restored to approximately 90% of their peak utilization capacities. “Following the […]

The early days of March have not been pleasant for Nigeria. It will seem as if the northern part of the country has remained under perpetual and unbreakable siege imposed by kidnappers, bandits and terrorists.   On the 4th of March, about 200 internally displaced women in Ngala, the headquarters of Gamboru Ngala in Borno […]

President Bola Tinubu says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is on the path to victory in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State.    President Tinubu expressed the optimism on Monday in Abuja during the presentation of the party’s flag to the Edo gubernatorial candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his running mate, Honourable Dennis Idahosa.  […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, “to immediately reinstate whistleblower Abdul Ningi who was recently suspended from the Senate over his allegations that the lawmakers padded the 2024 budget by irregularly inserting projects worth N3.7 trillion.”   Ningi, who represents Bauchi Central at the Senate, was on Tuesday […]

Nineteen directors at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are set to be dismissed in the coming days, following the recent termination of seven directors last Friday. While two of the terminated directors have accepted their fate, the other five are planning to take legal action against the bank for what they consider to be […]

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have begun a nationwide strike over what they described as unfair treatment and disparity in the payment of withheld salaries by the Federal Government.   “Definitely, it (the strike) has already started,” SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, declared on Channels Television’s The […]

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Temitope Ilori to serve as the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for an initial term of four years.   Dr. Ilori is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Ibadan, and a consultant family […]

  The Chairman Senate Committee on Media, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South), has flayed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for demanding the resignation of Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.   The PDP on Wednesday asked Akpabio to resign following an allegation of budget padding to the tune of N3.7 trillion that is not traceable to […]

Access Holdings has reappointed Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede as its non-executive chairman after 10 years of serving as the bank’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).   “Access Holdings Pic (the Holdco’), is pleased to announce the return of Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, CFR as its Non-Executive Chairman. Mr. Aig-Imoukhuede, CFR replaces Mr. Abubakar Jimoh, the erstwhile Chairman of the […]

President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with the Republic of Niger and the lifting of other sanctions against the country with immediate effect.   This directive is in compliance with the decisions of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government at its extraordinary summit on February […]