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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...

Sultan, Kukah Urge Unity, Collective Action To Tackle Nigeria’s Challenges

04.12.2025

The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, have called for deeper national unity, religious harmony, and collective responsibility in addressing Nigeria’s mounting security and socio-economic challenges. Speaking at the 2025 Celebration of Excellence and Award ceremony of the University of...

Tinubu Re-Appoints Owoeye As MD Of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital

04.12.2025

President Bola Tinubu has reappointed Dr Olugbenga Adekile Owoeye as substantive Medical Director of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, for the second and final term of four years, effective June 1, 2025. This was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Administration of the hospital, Dr Adeyinka Antwi. Dr Owoeye, who is currently the...

Odoh Urges Compliance As Court Reinstates Him As UNIZIK VC

04.12.2025

The sacked Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Professor Benard Odoh, has called for total compliance with the judgment of the National Industrial Court (NIC), which reinstated him as the VC of UNIZIK. Odoh, in a statement by his media aide, Charles Otu, commended and described the judgment “As a delightful affirmation of...