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The Executive Secretary of the National Lottery Trust Fund, Dr Bello Maigari, has expressed the agency’s commitment to poverty reduction in the country. He stated this during a courtesy visit by the leadership of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors’ Forum for President Tinubu/Shettima, recently in Abuja. “We have been having retreats …

Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima has faulted the position of those opposing the federal government’s decision to relocate some departments and units of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos, describing them as mischief makers. Shettima, who spoke on …

I read the reaction of the Northern Senators Forum (NSF), Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and others, condemning the relocation of some departments in the Central Bank of Nigeria and the headquarters of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos State, and I couldn’t but ask myself, …

The Corporate Affairs Commission has a duty to champion compliance with the world demand for transparency in corporate entities, says its newly appointed Registrar-General , Hussaini Ishaq Magaji. That will make “our system attractive to foreign investors. In our setting, CAC is the only agency of government that fulfills this …

President Bola Tinubu has asked the nation’s security chiefs to ensure that there is conclusive victory against the myriad of security threats assailing the country. Addressing security chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies at a Presidential Security Briefing at the State House, in Abuja, on Friday, President Tinubu said while …

The emergence of His Excellency, Senator (Prince) Bassey Edet Otu, as the Executive Governor of Cross River State, was believed to have heralded a ‘Season of sweetness’ for Cross Riverians, knowing his records as a performing politician, who positively affected the lives of many via his philanthropic engagements which earned …

December 27, 2023 dawned in a very grim manner. As I woke up I saw a news item on the scroll bar of Channels Television that Ghali Umar Na’Abba 8th Speaker of the House of Representatives had passed on at the age of 65. The son of a wealthy Kano …

Alex Uka for 6 years he reigns as the Duke of the government house Alagbaka in Akure in Ondo State, he was the kinsman and the personal assistant to the former First Lady of Ondo State Betty Ayanwu Akeredolu, he is the major business canvaser to the former First Lady, …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Federal Capital Territory Command, has arrested 82 suspected vandals and 22 illegal miners from August till date.The FCT Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr. Olusola Odumosu, gave the figures during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja Odumosu said …

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is dead,The Commerce Africa has learnt. The governor, aged 67, died on Wednesday morning after a prolonged health battle.Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), ex-president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and ex-Attorney General of Ondo State, was a second-term governor before his death. …