Reps Pass For Second Reading A Bill To Establish Agricultural Research Institute In Owode Yewa, Ogun State. Nigerian House of representatives has passed for second reading a Bill to Establish the National Institute of Agriculture Research and Entrepreneurship, Owode Yewa, Ogun State, This was sequel to a bill sponsored by Hon. Abiodun Isiaq Akinlade, Representing…
POWER SUPPLY FACILITIES: Bayelsa, Rivers To Establish Joint Anti-Vandalism Taskforce Worried by the incessant incidents of transmission power lines vandalism, the Bayelsa and Rivers State Governments have resolved to jointly work towards strengthening security architecture to protect power and other critical national assets in their border communities. This decision followed the outcome of a meeting…
Opec Ministerial Council Appoints Ademola Adeyemo As Chairman —Confirms Him As OPEC Governor For Nigeria. Nigeria has reaffirmed its leadership in the global energy sector with the appointment of Mr. Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, Nigeria’s Governor for OPEC, as Chairman of the OPEC Board of Governors for 2025. His appointment was confirmed at the 189th meeting of…
NCDMB Challenges Media to Interrogate, Support Nigerian Content Performance, Reiterates Commitment to Communities in Supply Chain The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Monday in Port Harcourt challenged practising journalists and other media stakeholders to deploy their skills in interrogation of reports on Nigerian Content performance in the oil and gas industry, so…
Yahaya Bello To Remain In EFCC’s Custody As Court Strikes Out Bail Application By Shalom Oludele Justice Maryann Anenih of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Tuesday, struck out the bail application filed by the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. According to Anenih, the bail application was struck out on the…
Gunmen Abduct Yahaya Bello’s Aide, Onyene Kabiru Onyene, an aide of the former governor of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has been adopted by unknown gunmen. According to reports making the rounds on Tuesday, Onyene was abducted around 7.05pm on Monday, when gun-wielding men in their numbers stormed his office,…
PBAT GAINS WHERE OTHERS FAILED. The recent outing of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT) to France was viewed with lots of skepticism. Examining France’s African relations, it requires some general observations about what works and what doesn’t bringing Nigerians thematic view in their imaginary worlds to regressive platitudes. For other online contributors, the past Franco-African…
North West Dev Commission and Other Issues: Who Will Save the Region? Northwestern Nigeria, the veritable location of Katsina—Kano—Kaduna, aka KKK, the brain and heartbeat of Nigeria’s politics, is in disarray. It is at a ferocious war with itself and external forces and direly needs salvation. The twin forces of insecurity and nepotism are massively…
Cry not, North; smell the coffee and act (1), by Hassan Gimba The topic on everybody’s, well, almost everybody’s, lips now is tax reform. Everybody has become an expert, so everyone is discussing it: the experts, the neophytes, and even those who do not give a hoot. Nigerians love to talk, dissipate energy, joke about it, and…
Royal Farewell: Families announce 4-Day burial programme for Princess Olajumoke Ajanaku The royal families of Musa-Ajanaku, Adegbite, and Amudipe have released the programme for the Burial Outing Ceremony and Celebration of Life in honour of a great matriarch, sister, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Princess Olajumoke Eunice Ajanaku (Asabi) née Adegbite, who departed this world on…
