More than 1.9 million vulnerable Nigerians are to benefit from about N38bn being disbursed as grants of N20,000 each to beneficiaries under the Grant for Vulnerable Groups programme of the Federal Government. Data released in Abuja on Friday by the National Cash Transfer Office of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management indicated…
The General Medical Council which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the United Kingdom licensed at least 266 Nigerian doctors in June and July, 2022, The PUNCH has learnt. The implication is that at least three Nigerian doctors were licensed per day in June and July 2022 despite the moves by the…
SANWO-OLU DELIVERS 16TH HOUSING PROJECT IN THREE YEARS, RAISES LAGOS HOUSING STOCK •LSDPC, Private Real Estate firm complete 38-flat scheme in V.I Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu today commissioned the Channel Point Apartments, Sinari Daranijo, VI, a joint venture partnership project between Lagos State Govt, through @lsdpcofficial and Brook Assets and Resources Limited. .The…
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has backed the six weeks ultimatum given to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), by some federal lawmakers to find a solution to terrorism or be impeached. Soyinka spoke on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during an interactive session organised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Abeokuta Club. The session,…
This brought the total number of victims that had regained their freedom to 27, which means about 35 people are still in the custody of the terrorists. Mustapha Umar Imam, a lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, who has just been released by terrorists after four months in captivity, has narrated his ordeal at the…
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, may give up on his support for embattled national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, as loyalists of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, are adamant on his removal as a condition for campaigning for the party in the 2023 presidential election. Daily Independent gathered that…
By TonyeBarcanista Since the commencement of the 2023 electioneering season, the term ‘Obidient’ is a slogan that has dominated the media airwaves, especially on social media. Subscribers to the Obidient slogans are Nigerians that are advocates of Chief Peter Gregory Obi, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party. Majority of his supporters are driven by rare…
President Buhari has blamed banditry and terrorism in Nigeria on the political instability in Libya. Buhari said his administration was making efforts towards tackling banditry and terrorism in Nigeria. He spoke while receiving the letters of credence from the new Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador James Kingston Christoff and Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria,…
The Nigeria Railway Corporation has suspended the Lagos-Kano and Ajaokuta train services due to fear of terrorist attacks.Multiple sources in the Ministry of Transportation and the NRC confided in one of our correspondents that the train services would not resume until the security along the Lagos-Kano route and the Ajaokuta train station was guaranteed. It…
And I must er, have to read out a personal. . .a message I did write and I penned down. As many of you know, in the last two days I have been in the news for the wrong reasons. This has resulted in needless distraction for my friends, family, members of the public and…