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UK Seeks Partnership With Abia On Climate Change

04.06.2025

A United Kingdom Government Initiative – Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office, Partnership Agile Governance and Climate Change (FCDO-PACE) – on climate change has offered a proposal of partnership to Abia State Government. Presenting the proposal during a visit to Governor Alex Otti, the National Team Lead, Mr. Ifeanyi Peters Ugwuoke, said that FCDO-PACE is a...

NSE Graduates Over 100 Engineers In Specialised Devt Training

04.06.2025

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has graduated more than 100 young and senior engineers in its specialised professional development training. Mrs Margaret Oguntala, President and Chairman-in-Council of NSE, made this known at the NSE Graduation Ceremony of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Young and Senior Engineers on Wednesday in Abuja, which was monitored online....

NSCDC Deploys 1,550 Personnel Across Osun

04.06.2025

Ahead of the Eid-el-kabir celebration, the Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Osun State, Igbalawole Sotiyo, has ordered the strategic deployment of 1,550 personnel across the state to ensure a peaceful and secure festive period. According to a statement signed by the Command’s spokesperson, Kehinde Adeleke, and made available to journalists in Osogbo,...

Faulty Educational System Bane Of Good Governance

04.06.2025

The Chairman of the Bayelsa State Council of Traditional Rulers, King Bubaraye Dakolo, Agada IV, the Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom, has attributed the country’s poor governance and high level of Citizen’s Agitation to faulty education system which he said was inherited from the Colonial Masters. King Dakolo, made this assertion recently during the 2025 Feast...

KWAYORG Urges Govt Intervention In Kwara South

04.06.2025

The Kwara South Youth Development Organisation (KWAYORG), under the leadership of Prince Abolarin Alaba Dansharafa, has expressed grave concern over the seemingly intractable insecurity ravaging the Kwara South Senatorial District. A statement by the General Secretary of KWAYORG, Ambassador Comrade Ashaolu David Taiwo, Kwara South Youths referred toas ‘De Egalitarian 001’, said: “As a coalition...

Barau, Kano North APC Back Tinubu’s 2nd Term Agenda

04.06.2025

The Deputy President of the Senate, Barau Jibrin, and the entire All Progressives Congress (APC) Northern Kano Supporters have passed votes of confidence on President Bola Tinubu’s second term agenda. This is even as Jibrin officially commissioned the recently upgraded Federal Polytechnic, Kabo, in Kano State into now the Federal University of Science and Technology,...

Security Agencies Get 50 Operational Vehicles In Ondo

04.06.2025

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has distributed 50 vehicles to security agencies, including the Army, Police, and State Security Network codenamed Amotekun, as part of efforts to tackle insecurity ravaging different parts of the state. The new operational vehicles would complement the 25 units of Toyota Hilux vehicles earlier distributed to security agencies to...

FG Partners UNICEF To Train 20m Youths In Digital Skills By 2030

04.06.2025

The Federal Government has renewed its strategic partnership with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to train and empower 20 million young Nigerians with digital skills by 2030. This came as the Vice President, Kashim Shettima has accepted to chair the board of Generation Unlimited Nigeria (GenU 9JA), a public-privateyouth partnership platform constituted...

Ex-EFCC Chair, Bawa, Unveils Book On Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy Fraud

04.06.2025

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has released a groundbreaking new book titled ‘The Shadow of Loot & Losses: Uncovering Nigeria’s Petroleum Subsidy Fraud’. This exposé provides the most authoritative account yet of Nigeria’s multi-trillion-naira fuel subsidy scandal, unraveling the inner workings of one of the country’s most...

Miss Nollywood Int’l Writes Tinubu, Accuses NHIA Of Neglecting Staff, Others

04.06.2025

Miss Nollywood International, Hassana Salisu, has written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, over alleged neglect of staff welfare, stagnant wages, mismanagement, corruption and lack of accountability by senior leadership of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). The letter sighted in Abuja, appealed to President Tinubu to urgently address the alleged injustices and economic...