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In a telephone conversation following the meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and leaders with President Muhammadu Buhari in London Sunday, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, said the President was very cheerful and has not lost any bit of his sense of humour. The governor said the party delegation spent more than an hour with President Buhari over lunch, and it was very clear from the discussions that he followed developments at home very closely. He said the President was delighted to receive the delegation and asked each governor about affairs in his state. He also asked the ...

A former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Roland Owie, defended, weekend, the integrity and nationalism of the Chairman of the Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, Captain Hosa Okunbo, even as he described as “satanic”, false reports in some online media of his likely involvement in the controversial Offshore Processing Agreements (OPAs), popularly known as oil swap. A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke and two of her associates – Jide Omokore and Kola Aluko – have been named by the US Justice Department as persons of interest in a civil complaint that had been reportedly filed at a ...

It is with great concern that I write to make this clarification in view of the ugly scenario created against our esteemed company that had followed due process in contracting business with Nigeria. It is indeed sad to note that our patience and silence had encouraged deliberate efforts geared towards creating this erroneous impression  to blackmail, distract, misinform and smear our organization and create ill-feeling amongst various stakeholders in Hajj operation in Nigeria. We have in recent times followed trends in which falsehood was sponsored in the media to achieve this. For the avoidance of doubt, the intent of this ...

By Innocent Odoh United States Chargé d’Affaires,  David J. Young Friday joined Acting President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo and more than 5,000 entrepreneurs as the Office of the Vice President hosted  a “Care Clinic” that provided on-the-spot solutions to bottlenecks holding up small and medium-sized businesses. A statement issued by the Public Affairs Division of the US Embassy in Abuja, ,made available to our correspondent, said that  clinic replicates a series of activities supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in late 2016 at which micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) directly engaged with federal ministries, departments, and agencies to ...

In its bid to improve healthcare delivery to the citizenry, the Federal Government has launched two documents 2nd Edition of Nigerian Standard Treatment Guidelines and 6th Edition of Nigerian Essential Medicines List for the betterment of patients. The Minister of State for Health, Dr.Osagie Ehanire launched these policy documents which are veritable tools to be used for procurement of medicines and their use in the public sector, prescribing medicines in the public health sector, medicines information to Healthcare providers and re-imbursements of medicines in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) among others. The Minister who was represented by the Director of Food and Drug ...

The Nigerian Christian Elders Forum, the organisation of senior citizens in Christianity, has called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to come together and rescue their fatherland which is currently suffering because of a cracking foundation. The organisation warned that in Northern Nigeria, the prevailing mindset had been “to turn the country into a caliphate.” The forum premised its argument on the fact that their policies were “responsible for, promoted or established directly or indirectly, Boko Haram as an insurgency and Fulani herdsmen”, all in a bid to justify the theocratic agenda they have for Nigeria. The chairman of NCEF and ...

Forty three Boko Haram insurgents who recently surrendered to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole were on Saturday air lifted to join other surrendered insurgents in Gombe where they are to immediately commence a de-radicalization and rehabilitation programme under the auspices of Operation Safe Corridor. Speaking while handing over the surrendered insurgents to Operation Safe Corridor, the Theatre Commander Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru gave assurance that the penitent insurgents will be given a new lease of life as they commence their journey back into the civil society through the de-radicalization and rehabilitation processes. He urged them further to ...

Exactly three years ago, the Federal Government of Nigeria appointed the then Head of Motor Vehicle Administration of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi to head the nation’s road safety lead agency. The choice of this hardworking, committed and dogged Nigerian was not by accident, but a reaffirmation that FRSC had come of age and gotten to a level where a capable insider could be trusted with the responsibility of taking the Corps to greater heights. Oyeyemi who was one of the pioneer officers of the Corps had prior to the appointment distinguished himself as one ...

The newly inaugurated patron of the Oyo state chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Rt Hon. Michael Adeyemo has described his appointment as a call to more service to humanity. Speaking at his investiture on Friday, Rt. Hon. Adeyemo thanked Oyo SWAN for making him their patron. He promised that he would not betray the trust they had in him. “I thank SWAN for making me their patron. I also thank my colleagues at the House of Assembly for their support. Without their support I wouldn’t have had this honour. Therefore I dedicate this award to them”, the state ...

LAGOS – Federal Government has commended Heritage Bank Limited, Nigeria’s Most Innovative Banking Service Provider, for its commitment to the development and growth of the creative industry. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed gave the commendation at a two-day Creative Nigeria Summit held in Lagos recently with the theme: Financing the Film, Television and Music Industries; which was co-sponsored by the Bank. He remarked that the conference which was jointly organized by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture and the Think Tank Media and Advertising was to take the industry into a golden era with smooth access to short ...