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Ali Rabiu Emerges New NSE President, Replaces Oguntala

06.12.2025

Engr. Ali Alimasuya Rabiu has been elected as the 35th President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), alongside other national executive officers, in an online voting. Following the electoral victory, Rabiu will pilot the affairs of the society from January 1st, 2026. The new NSE President is set to automatically assume the presidency after...

Ugochinyere Wants Tinubu’s Intervention In Debts Owed Local Contractors

06.12.2025

Member representing Ideator North & South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene in debts owed local contractors by the Federal Government. Ugochinyere, who visited the Ministry of Finance, in solidarity with the aggrieved contractors, who have occupied the ministry since Tuesday, said that the...

CG: Corruption Has No Place In Immigration Service

06.12.2025

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (CGIS), Kemi Nandap, has vowed to build an agency that is modern, transparent, and efficient, one that delivers services with integrity and excellence. The immigration chief made the declaration yesterday during the flags-off of the 4th quarter nationwide sensitisation campaign against corruption and for enhanced service delivery in...

Wike: Nobody Can Keep Rivers Lawmakers In Factionalised PDP

06.12.2025

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike on Friday said that members of Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to the ruling party are free to do so, noting that nobody can keep them in their former party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that is already factionalised. Recall that the Speaker...

NAFDAC Joins Global Drug-regulation Elite With Full ICH Membership

06.12.2025

Nigeria has achieved a major milestone in global health regulation as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been admitted as a full member of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). This elevation from observer to full membership places Nigeria among only...

GOC Tasks Promoted Senior Officers On Committed, Purposeful Leadership

06.12.2025

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Farouk Mijinyawa, has charged newly promoted senior officers in the Division to remain committed to providing purposeful and exemplary leadership to their troops. The Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations (ADDAPR) of the division, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Yahaya stated in a press release stating...

I Have Confidence In ADC, Mark’s Leadership – Obi

06.12.2025

Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as “malicious”, the interview he purportedly granted where he reportedly made some remarks against the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and its leadership. Obi in a statement by the spokesperson of Peter Obi Media Office (POMR), Ibrahim Umar on Friday, expressed...

Kwam1 Seeks Awujale Throne, Applies Through Fusengbuwa Ruling House

06.12.2025

Fuji icon, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as Kwam1, has formally indicated interest in the prestigious Awujale of Ijebuland throne, this time claiming ancestry from the Fusengbuwa Ruling House rather than the Fidipote lineage with which he is widely associated. The Olori Ebi of the Fusengbuwa Ruling House, Otunba Lateef Owoyemi, confirmed that the musician...

Tinubu’s Security Directive: Kefas, Kalu, Abdullahi Lead Strategic Security Mission To Cameroon

06.12.2025

In a strategic move aligned with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s national security directive to curb cross-border threats and reinforce Nigeria’s territorial integrity, the Governor of Taraba State, Dr. Agbu Kefas on Friday led a high-powered Nigerian delegation to Cameroun for a security assessment mission targeted at strengthening bilateral co- operation against terrorism and transnational crimes....

Yuletide: There Won’t Ever Be Fuel Queues Again In Nigeria, Dangote Assures

06.12.2025

As yuletide approaches, the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has assured that there would not be fuel scarcity in Nigeria and her neighbouring countries again. Dangote, who hinted that the expansion project by his refinery at completion would make the company the largest by 2028, gave this assurance while fielding questions from journalists...