By Kingsley Okoye Security has been beefed up at the National Assembly Complex ahead of presentation of 2025 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reportes that budget presentation which was earlier slated to hold on Tuesday, Dec 17 was […]
By Sumaila Ogbaje The National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, says effective arms control requires strong legal framework, enduring partnerships, continuous training, resource allocation and shared sense of responsibility. Ribadu said this at a workshop on “Review of the Firearms Act of 1959”, organised by the National Centre for the Control of Small Arms […]
Award By Victor Okoye Abuja, Dec. 16, 2024 (NAN) Nigeria’s Ademola Lookman on Monday scooped the Africa Player of the Year award at the 2024 CAF Awards in Marrakech, Morocco. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Lookman was the biggest winner at a star-studded 2024 CAF Awards in Marrakech, as Africa’s best […]
Rukayat Adeyemi Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd. (SNEPCo), a subsidiary of Shell plc, says it made a Final Investment Decision (FID) on Bonga North, a deep-water project off the coast of Nigeria. Ms Zoë Yujnovich, Shell’s Integrated Gas and Upstream Director, disclosed this in a statementon Monday in Lagos. Yujnovich said Bonga North […]
By Cecilia Ologunagba The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, has called for increased humanitarian aid in Syria amid “immense” changes that offer hope to a nation emerging from a 13-year-long war. Pedersen arrived in Damascus over the weekend and held meetings on Sunday with key figures in the region. Among those he […]
By Abdullahi Mohammed The Borno Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Prof. Baba Mallam, has blamed the rate at which Nigerian women die during child birth on indecision by most families. Mallam spoke on Monday, when he received a donation of two tricycle (keke) ambulances from an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Doctors Without Borders, in […]
By Deborah Akpede The Zone-2 Police Command in Lagos says it has detained two suspected international fraudsters that allegedly specialised in forging foreign certificates in Lagos and Ghana. The AIG in charge of the zone, Adegoke Fayaode, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday. Fayoade said that the suspects allegedly offered […]
By Nathan Nwakamma The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) on Monday said the reported oil leak from the Bonny Oil Export Terminal will not affect oil export. SPDC noted that the incident affected only a section at one out of the three loading buoys which has been isolated. Mrs Gladys Afam-Anadu, […]
European Union foreign ministers plan to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss recent developments in Syria and Georgia also wars in Ukraine and the Middle East as well as the political situation in Belarus. Ministers are set to adopt the 15th round of new sanctions on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in […]
By Angela Atabo Stakeholders in the housing sector have called for reforms like property tax to address the growing issue of unoccupied houses, and tax relief to encourage developers to build more houses. The stakeholders said this at the 6th Edition of the African Housing Awards organised by the Housing Development Advocacy Network (HDAN) […]