THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), on Sunday, brokered a peace deal between the Management of TotalEnergies, operator of the NNPC / TotalEnergies JV, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, (PENGASSAN) and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). At the meeting, according to a statement by NNPCL spokesman, Olufemi Soneye, the unions agreed to suspend ongoing industrial action leading to immediate restoration of 275, 000 barrels of oil per day production. In a communiqué issued at the end of a marathon negotiation session chaired by Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan, Executive Vice President, Upstream, NNPC Ltd.,…
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THERE are high expectations as the Court of Appeal has fixed Wednesday, 15th November for the hearing in the appeal filed by Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule, who is fighting to reject the majority judgement of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lafia which ruled in favour of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), David Ombugadu. This was contained in the notice of hearing issued to the parties in the case by Nasiru Alhassan, Electronic Desk Officer of the court and obtained by Daily Trust in Lafia on Sunday. The notice, which reads said, “Hearing in the…
WITH 48 hours to the off-cycle governorship polls, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed a new commissioner of police to Imo State. In a statement released on Thursday, Force spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi announced that Danjuma Aboki had been deployed as the new police commissioner in Imo state by the IGP. Elections are scheduled to be held in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi States. While the incumbent Imo governor, Hope Uzodimma and his Bayelsa counterpart, Senator Duoye Diri are seeking re-election on November 11, outgoing Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello, has anointed Ahmed Ododo as the candidate for his ruling…
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again assured Nigerians of sufficient naira notes in the country, and warned against panic withdrawals. The apex bank, in a statement on Wednesday, reiterated that old and new naira notes remained legal tender. “For the avoidance of doubt, while reiterating that there are sufficient banknotes across the country for all normal economic activity, we wish to state unambiguously that every banknote issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria remains legal tender and should not be rejected by anyone, as stipulated in Section 20(5) of the CBN Act, 2007,” said CBN spokesman, Isa AbdulMumin.…
THE Honorable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has reiterated the Federal Government’s commitment to the timely establishment of a UNESCO Category 2 Institute for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in Nigeria. The Minister stated this during a bilateral meeting with the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, Dr. Tawfik Jelassi, on Tuesday November 7, 2023, on the sidelines of UNESCO’s 42nd General Conference, in Paris, France. Nigeria’s pledge to establish and host the Institute emerged from the 2022 UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, hosted by Nigeria, in October 2022, in Abuja, and was endorsed…
GUNMEN suspected to be kidnappers on Monday night invaded Gandu community located about two kilometres away from the Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, and shot a 300-level student of Sociology Department in the institution. Our correspondent gathered that the gunmen who also kidnapped a popular businessman during the attack, stormed the community around 8.30pm. An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that the incident has caused fear among residents of the area, adding that many students had remained indoors since the incident occurred. The eyewitness said, “The student was shot by the bandits and was immediately rushed to…
THE father of Muhammad Babandede, the former Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service; the Magajin Rafin Hadejia, Alhaji Muhammadu Babandede Sarkiki, has died. He died last night in Egypt after a prolonged illness. According to a statement released by the General Manager, Muhasa Radio and Television, Hajiya Aishatu Sule, Monday, the date and time for the burial will be announced when the corpse arrives Nigeria from Cairo. He was married and blessed with children, many grandchildren and great grand children.
TRAGEDY was averted when an aircraft which had Adebayo Adelabu, Minister of Power, on board crash-landed near Ibadan Airport in Oyo State. Information had earlier filtered in that the aircraft crashed, but it was later discovered that it crash-landed. Details of the incident were still sketchy as of press time but this newspaper gathered that it happened on Friday night. This newspaper cannot state if the minister or those on board sustained any injury in the incident, which happened after the Nigerian Metrological Agency (NiMET) issued travel warning based on hazy weather. The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) had also…
NIGERIA and France have signed an agreement worth about $600m under the investment in digital and creative enterprise, I-DICE in Abuja. According to both countries, the purpose of the programme, which is an initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria, is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the digital technology and creative industry. During the signing ceremony, both Ms. Catherine Colonna, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Bosun Tijani, the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, emphasized that the program would have a positive impact on young Nigerians and contribute to the creation of sustainable employment opportunities.…
THE Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar on Thursday conferred awards on some prominent Nigerians. The recipients included a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mahmoud Yayale Ahmed and Etsu Nupe, Yahya Abubakar who bagged Sultan Bello Award for Good Governance and Public Service Award respectively. Others were the late Sheikh Isiyaka Rabiu of Kano State and Sheikh Isa Talatan Mafara who received the Usman bin Fordiyo award for exemplary leadership. The Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede and Professor Khadija Nuhu received Sultan Sa’ad Award for Peace and Nana Asma’u Award respectively. Sultan…
NOT fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja. The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Thursday around 4pm before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction. A witness, Mustapha Aminu, told this newspaper that the truck rammed into some tricycles popularly called Keke and vehicles, killing at least 8 people, including students. Aminu said the driver, having seen the havoc he had caused, abandoned the truck and ran away with the…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday published the comprehensive information of collected and uncollected Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) on polling unit basis in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. This follows a meeting of the Commission on Monday to review the ongoing preparations for the off-cycle governorship elections in the three states scheduled for Saturday, November 11, 2023. “As was done in recent elections, including the 2023 General Election, the Commission is publishing the comprehensive information of collected and uncollected Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) in the three States on polling unit basis. “The information also gives the distribution of…
THE Supreme Court, on Thursday, affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the appeals filed by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP. The Supreme Court agreed with the September 6 verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, on all counts. The seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Inyang Okoro, in an unanimous judgment, resolved the seven issues for determination in favour of Tinubu. The seven justices who took the landmark decision were Inyang Okoro, Uwani Abba-Aji, Lawal Garba, Ibrahim Saulawa, Adamu Jauro,…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his election victory at the February 25 presidential poll. The apex court in its ruling dismissed the appeals by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart Peter Obi. In a unanimous judgment on Thursday, the apex court dismissed the petitions. A seven-judge panel ruled as without merit the opposition appeals over claims of fraud, electoral law violations, and Tinubu’s ineligibility to run for president. Hours after the verdict, Tinubu issued a statement, saying the nation’s judiciary has never…
THE Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Malam Kashifu Abdullahi has urged Nigerians to embrace and harness the vast potential of digital technology. Abdullahi made the call in Abuja on Tuesday in his address at the ongoing 2023 Digital Nigeria Conference. He noted that digital innovations reshape societies and economies, adding that it is now redefining the very essence of identities. Outlining the vision of the 2023 Digital Nigeria Conference, he said it would help in leveraging digital technology to stimulate job creation, ensure inclusive economic growth, and lay the foundation for a robust digital economy.…
THE Federal Government has warned that any officer whose records could not be verified on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) will be removed on Friday. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, said this in a statement, on Wednesday. The statement signed by Mohammed Ahmed, Director, Communications, in her office, said the two-week exercise which will end on Friday, October 27, 2023, was put in place as an act of magnanimity for officers who did not take part in the earlier verifications. He recalled that the Federal Government commenced the implementation of…
KATSINA State Governor, Mallam Dikko Umaru Radda, has flagged off the disbursement of over N640m as scholarship allowances to students from the state at various higher institutions of learning. The event took place on Monday on the premises of the Katsina State Scholarship Board, where the governor also presented the ‘Maiden Katsina State Government Award of Academic Excellence to Students with cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 4.50 and above. In his address, the governor said the approval of N640,648,546 for the payment of scholarship to the fresh and returning students of the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic sessions was a…
ONE of the lecturers at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK), Dr Comfort Adokwe has been reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Keffi on Sunday. It was gathered that Adokwe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Administration at the university and a Deputy Director, Gender Studies, of the school, was abducted on Sunday night by the gunmen from her residence in Angwan Jaba in Keffi. The Chairman of the Community Development Association, Comrade Ali Sule, who confirmed the development to journalists, saying that the gunmen invaded the lecturer’s compound late at night and whisked her to unknown destination. According to…
AS the naira continues its free fall at the parallel market, President Bola Tinubu has vowed to clear foreign exchange contracts backlog discouraging investors’ confidence. Speaking at the ongoing Nigeria Economic Summit #NES29 in Abuja on Monday, the president also assured that Nigeria will honour all future Foreign exchange contracts. “All foreign exchange future contracts will be honoured by this government. I assure you we have a line of sight to the foreign exchange we need to refloat this economy. And we will get it,” Tinubu said. Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold what is called forward…
THE Nigerian Army has recruited a new set of 6,315 soldiers into the force as part of efforts to shore up its manpower and confront the security challenges confronting the country. At the passing-out parade of the recruits of 85th Regular Intake from the Nigerian Army Depot, Zaria in Kaduna State, on Saturday, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, said the recruits will complement the manpower needs of the Nigerian military with competent and combatant-ready young soldiers. He reminded them that they are joining the Armed Forces at a time when the country is facing a plethora…