December 2025 – Page 115

PTAD Disburses Over N1trn In Pension Payments In 12 Years

04.12.2025

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has disbursed more than ₦1 trillion in pension payments over its twelve years of existence, the Executive Secretary, Ms. Tolulope Odunaiya, has announced. Ms. Odunaiya made the disclosure on Thursday while speaking at a One-Day Capacity Building Workshop for Pension Correspondents and Online Editors in Abuja. Represented by the...

Engineers Develop Green Extraction Tech for Essential Oils

04.12.2025

As part of efforts to promote sustainable manufacturing, an international team of chemical engineers has developed a high-efficiency green extraction technology that could redefine the future of the global essential oil industry. The innovation was led by a Nigerian researcher, Obiora Muojama of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, whose contributions helped deliver one...

No More Active Cholera Case In Zamfara

04.12.2025

The Zamfara State Government on Thursday announced that a recent cholera outbreak, which affected numerous communities across the state, has been successfully contained, with no active cases currently reported. The announcement came during an After Action Review Meeting on the cholera response, held at the Public Health Emergency Operations Center in Gusau, the state capital....

Immigration CG Visits Kebbi, Assesses Checkpoint Attack

04.12.2025

The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, concluded a two-day working visit to Kebbi State following the recent attack on the Bakin Ruwa checkpoint, which left personnel and facilities of the Service affected. Nandap arrived in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday, December 3, and first met with the Deputy Governor, Senator Umar...

PENGASSAN Warns Of Brain Drain, Seeks Urgent Wage, Security Reforms

04.12.2025

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has warned that Nigeria risks a mass exodus of top-tier oil and gas professionals unless companies urgently review workers’ remuneration in response to persistent inflation and sharp naira devaluation. PENGASSAN President, Comrade Festus Osifo, issued the warning on Thursday during the union’s final National...

LCCI Elects Leye Kupoluyi As 44th President, Chairman Of Council

04.12.2025

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Nigeria’s foremost Chamber of Commerce, has elected Engr. Leye Kupoluyi as its 44th President and Chairman of Council. His election follows the conclusion of Mr. Gabriel Idahosa’s FCA tenure, during which he served the Chamber with distinction. The announcement was made by Dr. Chinyere Almona, Director-General of LCCI,...

Edo Assembly C’ttee Threatens Arrest Warrant On Obaseki, Others

04.12.2025

The Edo State House of Assembly Ad hoc Committee investigating the Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA) and Radisson Hotel has warned that it may issue an arrest warrant against former Governor Godwin Obaseki for failing to appear before it. The committee, constituted at the request of Governor Monday Okpebholo, is probing the state government’s...

Kwara Gov’t Begins Work On KWSUED Senate Building, Gate House

04.12.2025

The Kwara State Government has handed over the site for the construction of a multistorey Senate building at the Kwara State University of Education (KWSUED), marking a major milestone in Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s Smart City project. The university’s permanent campus will be located in the First District of the Kwara Smart City, at the Alalubosa...

NCDC Seeks Partnership With German Dev’t Agency

04.12.2025

The North Central Development Commission (NCDC) has initiated discussions with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) to forge a strategic partnership for implementing key programmes within its mandate. A delegation from the Commission, led by Prof. Mohammad Bashar Nuhu, Executive Director, Finance, and representative of the Managing Director/CEO Dr. Cyril Yiltsen Tsenyil, visited GIZ’s...

Yakubu’s Nomination As Ambassador-Designate ‘Morally Indefensible’ – Atiku

04.12.2025

Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described the nomination of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as ambassador-designate by President Bola Tinubu as morally indefensible. In a statement on Thursday, Atiku said the nomination sends the wrong message to the current INEC leadership, implying that partisan, compromised,...