Stakeholders in the environment have called on states Houses of Assembly, especially in the Niger Delta region, to develop policies that would allow individuals to generate electricity using methane, and possibly sell to the national grid. This was contained in a communiqué issued on Wednesday by the Environmental Centre for Oil Spills and Gas Flaring,…
Edo State government has called for expedited completion and commissioning of the Monee International Market in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state in a bid to bolster economic growth and infrastructure development. The call was made during a crucial meeting of the market stakeholders on Wednesday, at the One-Stop-Shop, Block B, Secretariat in…
THE Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, says the two commissioners who resigned from the cabinet of Governor Siminalayi Fubara were lucky that the governor is a tolerant person. He described the reasons adduced by the two commissioners for resigning as an afterthought, saying they ought not to have waited until their…
BOLA BAMIGBOLA, in this report, recounts the harrowing experiences of travellers and drivers navigating the neglected Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa Expressway, bringing their tales of hardship and near-death encounters on the road FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Tayo Obalorun, a civil engineer, returning to Ile Ife, Osun State, for the first time since graduating from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2005, that fateful…
Delta State Ministry of Health has begun refund on moneys extorted from students in authorized study fees in the state’s Colleges of Nursing Asaba and Sapele. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme, who monitored the refund exercise on Wednesday at the state College of Nursing, Asaba, disclosed that the extortion involved the schools’…
The Ikeja Dynamic Lions Club, District 404B2, has carried out renovation works at the Agidingbi Primary School in Ikeja, Lagos State. The club also donated about 50 pairs of corrective glasses to some residents on Wednesday. The donation, in partnership with the Lions Club International Foundation, was part of the club’s initiatives to complement the…
The Senate panel probing the N30tn Ways and Means loans secured from the Godwin Emefiele-led Central Bank of Nigeria by the Federal Government has said it will seek an extension of the time allotted for the investigation. At the inauguration of the panel on March 11, 2024, Senate President GodsWill Akpabio gave the panel a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disagreed with a claim by a former Vice President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Prof. Nwoke Chijioke, that the agency’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, subjected ex-governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to media trial. The allegation followed revelations made by Olukoyede on Tuesday about the outcomes of the…
The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, on Thursday, sealed no fewer than 751 medicine shops in the Gombe open drug market. The PCN is a Federal Government agency charged with the responsibility of regulating and controlling the education, training and practice of pharmacy in all its aspects in line with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Establishment…
NIGERIA joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day on Thursday, with patients lamenting the about 23 per cent rise in the cost of antimalarial medications between November 2023 and April 2024. Though the Federal Government said it was taking steps for intervention, Nigerians still grapple with the high cost of prices…
The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has clarified that the video circulating on social media depicting alleged harassment and robbery at a traffic stop was not recorded in Nigeria. This clarification was provided in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, via his social media handle on Thursday. The statement disclosed that…
No fewer than 6.9 million candidates sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between 2019 and 2022 with only 2.03 million of them admitted into tertiary various institutions while 4.87 million candidates failed to secure admission. Among the 4.87 million candidates, who failed to secure admission, are 4,385 candidates who scored 300 and above out of…