A message of condolence from His Majesty The King to the President of Nigeria Your Excellency, Dear Mr President, I wanted you to know how deeply saddened both my wife and I are to hear of the many people who have lost their loved ones and whose lives have been so dreadfully affected as a…
Nigeria has about 24, 000 actively licensed physicians caring for its over 200 million population as result of brain drain in the country, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has said.NMA President, Ojinmah Uche, stated this yesterday in Abuja during a policy dialogue on Nigeria’s health sector brain drain and its implications for sustainable child and family…
Ogun State government has refuted BudgIT Foundation’s widely publicised report on internally generated revenue across the 36 states of the federation, saying the group got the state’s financial status wrong. In a letter to the foundation’s director by the state Commissioner for Finance, Dapo Okubadejo, the government described BudgIT Foundation’s ranking of Ogun State as…
Oil theft: Navy hands over vessels, 22 crew members to EFCC The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday, October 18, handed over two vessels, MT Platform and MV Caribbean Crest alongside a crew of 22 suspected oil thieves to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further investigation and possible prosecution. The EFCC confirmed the handing over in a Wednesday,…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, Samuel Yohanna, says there is no political party that does not hire crowds for rallies. “We are thoroughbred politicians and we’ve been in this game for a very long time. We understand how this thing goes. “There is no political party that does not hire crowds….
Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode on Tuesday said that Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is critically ill. In a post on his official Facebook page, Fani Kayode who is the Director of New Media, Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC)…
The Justice Department has reached a $777.8 million criminal plea agreement with a French cement company that paid off the Islamic State terrorist group in order to continue operating in Syria in 2013 and 2014 — at a time when the group was abducting and murdering journalists and aid workers. Executives with Lafarge, which is based…
At least 13 people have now died after a Russian fighter-bomber plane crashed into an apartment block in the southern Russian town of Yeysk on Monday night, October 17. Footage shared on social media showed flames pouring from two apartment blocks after the jet hit it. A local correspondent in Yeysk told Russia’s state-run TV…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that the establishment of a National Carrier for Nigeria is at 91 per cent completion, and is expected to commence flight operations before the end of this year. The president gave the assurance at the 3rd Ministerial Performance Review Retreat on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the feat is…
Nigeria LNG Ltd. declared force majeure on shipments from its Bonny Island liquefied natural gas facility after supplies were cut off by flooding. “The notice by the gas suppliers was a result of high flood water levels in their operational areas, leading to a shut-in of gas production which has caused significant disruption of gas…