Tinubu lauds renewable energy expert, AbdulRazaq, on Global Sustainability Award
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated a renewable energy expert, Mr. Ridwan AbdulRazaq, on winning the 2024 Prince’s Trust Global Sustainability Award. Abdulrazaq won the award at the Prince’s Trust and TK Maxx and Homesense Awards in London’s Theatre Royal Drury…
UTME: JAMB releases 2024 supplementary results
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who took the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on June 21 and 22. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. JAMB said…
Just In: Tinubu Orders Disbursement of N155bn For Foodstuff Purchase Nationwide
President Bola Tinubu has ordered the purchasing and selling of foodstuff worth ₦155 billion to be distributed across the nation. The president gave the approval during the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday in Abuja where he urged state…
Blackmail can’t stop new presidential jet approval – Senate
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said on Thursday that the Presidency had not approached the National Assembly with a request for new presidential jets. He, however, said should such a request be made, the Senate would approve it. Akpabio said…
EFCC orders arrest of power-drunk officers for assaulting hotel worker
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, on Thursday, ordered the arrest of two officers of the commission allegedly involved in the manhandling of a female hotel worker in Lagos. Olukoyede’s directive was in response to…
Minimum wage: Let each state negotiate what it can pay — Govs
LAGOS — Governors from the Southern part of Nigeria, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, yesterday called for the consideration of the ability of each state to pay the new minimum wage. Their call came as the Nigerian…
Niger govt arrests nursing mothers, teenagers at illegal mining sites
Minna— The Niger State government has carried out raids on some of the illegal mining sites across the state where many of the erring miners were arrested. Top on the list of those arrested include aged women, nursing mothers, their…
N17bn debt: Court discharges 19 banks, Afex directors face contempt
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday fixed July 8, 2024, for hearing of all pending applications in a contempt suit initiated by Guaranty Trust Bank Limited against the directors of the Afex Exchange Commodities Limited over alleged N17,…
Shun drug abuse, Kwara gov advises youth
The Kwara State Government has advised the youths to shun the abuse of drugs. The government stated this with the aim of attaining a drug free society. The Governor of Kwara State, Mallam AbdulRaman AbdulRazaq gave this advise on Tuesday…
Taiwo Kekere-Ekun’s demise: Governor Adeleke pays condolence visit to Fresh FM management, family
By Sunday Okunade Following the untimely death of a popular Osun based broadcast- journalist, Comrade Taiwo Kekere-Ekun, Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has paid a condolence visit to Fresh FM, Osogbo and the family of the deceased in Ilesa….