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Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mine, Steel Development and Metallurgy, has called for special funding towards reactivating the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi. He stated this on Thursday while presenting the 2022 budget report of his committee to the Senate Appropriation Committee. Al-Makura (APC-Nasarawa) stressed the importance of the solid minerals…
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector has contributed N8.13tillion to real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the nine months to September 2021. According to data collated from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS’) reports the sector is composed of the four activities of telecommunications and information services; publishing; motion picture, sound recording and music production;…
Anambra State government has described the announcement of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that it has placed Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on its watch list as politically motivated. The state government said in its reaction that the EFCC knows full well that it is acting inelegantly and alleged the anti-graft agency…
I had called his mobile line one Thursday afternoon in June 2016, but he didn’t pick the call. So I left a message for him. At about 11pm on that same day, I was getting set to go to bed when my phone rang. On the other end was Malam Mamman Daura, a figure of…
The Senate, Trade Union Congress, Nigeria Labour Congress have disagreed with the Federal Government’s plan to remove fuel subsidy next year and replace it with a N5,000 monthly transport grant to 40 million Nigerians. While the Senate said there was no provision for such grant in the 2022 budget, TUC expressed shock that government could…
The FCT Primary Health Care Board (FPHCB) has urged Nigerians to disregards the myths surrounding the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. Mr Francis Okonkwo, Health Education Officer of the board made the call while delivering a lecture at a one-day media orientation workshop on COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign. He noted that all the myths on…
The Federal Government has produced a Risk Mapping and Assessment tool as part of national strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Faruq, has said. She spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during the monthly seminar organised by the Bureau of Public Reforms, with the theme “Humanitarian…
“House of Gucci” draws Lagos audience from far and near as it premieres at the Silverbird Galleria on Tuesday night (November 23rd) in what will go down as one of the most enthralling fashion-cum-movie nights in recent times. Not many a time do we have a movie inspire a perfect convergence of fashion and movie…
Lagos State has earmarked huge capital expenditure of N1.39 trillion in the 2022 fiscal year to service key growth areas in order to consolidate the recovery of the State’s economy and positively transform residents’ livelihoods. Presenting the budget to the House of Assembly on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the State would be spending N325…
Father of former Imo state deputy governor, Eze Madumere, who was kidnapped by gunmen five days ago has been set free. Eze Henry Madumere, who is the traditional ruler of Achi Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state, was kidnapped on Friday on his way to a function at Iho in the…
