By Bassey Inyang in Calabar:The Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Roads Agency (FERMA), Senator Gershom Bassey has urged the Presidency to pay up the backlog of about N1 trillion it owes the road maintenance agency. Bassey,  who is the representative of the Cross River South Senatorial district ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will officially flag-off its presidential campaign for the 2023 elections in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday. It was gathered that all arrangements have been concluded and party bigwigs, ...

By Michael Olugbode:The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigrations Service (NIS), Isah Idris, has promised to provide the enabling environment and motivation for officers and men of the service to discharge their duties most efficiently.He gave this promise weekend during the kick-off ceremony of ...

Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja. The minister ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, called on Nigerians to elect leaders that would make a difference in their lives. Tinubu made the remark while calling for prayers for peaceful, ...

By Onyebuichi Ezigbo:The federal government said it spent about $100 million in feeding 10 million pupils under the National School Feeding Programme.This was part of efforts to eliminate the scourge of child labour in the country.The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said this ...

Canada to allow international students to work off-campus over 20 hours per weekImmigration Minister Sean Fraser has announced a new temporary measure aimed at alleviating Canada's historic labour shortages. Fraser says this will allow over 500,000 international students already in Canada to ...

It is a pleasure be back to the grounds of this great citadel, University of Oxford.Today, I will speak briefly and then interact with you on “Trends and Prospects of Nigeria's Economy: Broader implications For Africa’s Development.”You will no doubt have heard the name Nigeria mentioned with ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, laid the 2023 Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly. The bill was tagged, ‘Budget of Fiscal Sustainability and Transition.’ However, the key provisions in the ...

By Kuni Tyessi:The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Aisha is set to speak today on the need for women to imbibe the culture of saving for rainy days, particularly for themselves and their children.She will be speaking at the public presentation of the book, The Audacity of an African Girl, ...

By Chuks Okocha:Former National Chairman and first National Secretary of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor is dead.He has been confirmed dead by a family source which further told THISDAY that he died Thursday in Canada at the age of 73 from an ...

By Ibrahim Shuaibu:The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have received 180 Nigerians that were stranded in Niger Republic on their ways to Libya and Algeria to seek greener pastures.Receiving the returnees in Kano on Friday, the NEMA Coordinator Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday evening, returned to Abuja, Nigeria. Tinubu’s arrival comes days after speculations that he was hospitalized in the United Kingdom.2. ...

By Chinedu Eze:Despite the outrageous fares that foreign airlines charge Nigerian passengers, coupled with the economic hardship in the country, Nigeria still records high outbound flights, THISDAY investigation has revealed.Some foreign airlines operating in Nigeria, who confirmed the development, ...

MINISTRY OF INTERIORPRESS STATEMENTFG DECLARES MONDAY 10th OCTOBER 2022 PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO MARK EIDUL-MAWLID CELEBRATIONThe Federal Government has declared Monday 10th October, 2022 as Public Holiday to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Mawlid Celebration in commemoration of the birth of the Holy Prophet ...

 The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to prevent the arbitrary removal of judges. The bill, sponsored by Bob Solomon from Rivers State, seeks to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal.According to the lead debate by Solomon, a judicial officer cannot be ...

…as Buhari presents appropriation bill to National Assembly todayThe President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Friday (today) lay the 2023 Appropriation Bill before a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja.Ahead of the Federal Government budget presentation, the House of ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. All the passengers abducted from a Kaduna-bound train on March 28, 2022, have been released, according to the Federal Government. Prof. Usman Yusuf, Secretary, Chief of Defense Staff Action Committee (CDSAC), confirmed on Wednesday ...

By Deji Elumoye and Kingsley Nwezeh:President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the entire nation owed the military and other sister security agencies a debt of gratitude for walking the talk, as he basked in the euphoria of the safe release of the remaining 23 kidnapped Abuja-Kaduna train ...

As Cyberechnologies Next Generation (CybertechNX) launches Cybersecurity Consulting Operations, Nigerian cybersecurity experts and stakeholders in the financial services sector have called on the federal government to urgently initiate and operationalise a world-class and effective cybersecurity ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of being complicit in corruption in the tertiary education sector in the country. Buhari said this as the Speaker of the House of ...

By Sunday Aborisade and Udora OrizuPresident Muhammadu Buhari would this Friday present and lay before the two chambers of the National Assembly, the proposed N19.76 trillion budget for the 2023 financial year.THISDAY had reported that the federal government planned to spend N19.76 trillion in ...

By Udora Orizu:The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on power to conduct investigation into the root causes of incessant national grid collapse in the country.The Committee was mandated as well to look into Transmission Company of Nigeria’s (TCN) capacity to address the ugly ...

By Segun James:Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in a surprise move, has announced salary increment for civil servants in the state.Apart from this, the governor also disclosed that a phased system of distribution of official vehicles to persons on the director level beginning from the ...

Former President Nigeria Medical Association, Dr Osahon Enabulele will be inaugurated on October 7, 2022, in Berlin, Germany, as first Nigeria and Wes Africa President of the World Medical Association, WMA.The installation of Dr Enabulele who is also the Commonwealth Medical Association, CMA and ...

Nigerian doctor, Osahon Enabulele, emerges President World Medical AssociationFormer President Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr Osahon Enabulele, has emerged as the President-elect of the World Medical Association, WMA.Enabulele, a Chief Consultant Family Physician, is currently the President ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South, especially in Rivers State, including candidates for the 2023 elections, yesterday called on the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and ...

The Federal Government has said that the second Niger Bridge will be ready for use by Christmas this year.Ag Controller of Works in Anambra, Mr Seyi Martins said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday.Martins said that the first phase of the Second Niger Bridge ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Ahead of the February 2023 presidential elections, five Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday, met in Enugu State over who they would give their backing. Inside sources, however, said ...

By Segun James:Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, have called on Nigerians to continuously work and pray for peace in the nation.They made the call yesterday, at the Redeemed Christians Church ...

by Christiana NwaoguThe widow of Dickson Dike, the first outrider to the Commandant-general of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), who died in a fatal crash while attempting a stunt on Wednesday night, has been offered a compassionate appointment.Announcing the proposed offer to ...

By Iyobosa Uwugiaren:As the campaigns for the 2023 general election kick off, there are still some unresolved electoral issues In line with the 2022 Electoral Act and the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Guidelines, the campaigns for the 2023 general election started last ...

By Emmanuel Addeh:Elder statesman and former Secretary of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), Chief Ayo Opadokun, yesterday called for a return to true federalism as envisaged by the founding fathers of Nigeria. Speaking at a lecture delivered under the auspices of the coalition of Yoruba ...

Buhari to confer national honours on Abba Kyari, Burna Boy, Okonjo-Iweala, othersPresident Buhari has listed his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari among the 437 nominees for the 2022 National Honours Award.Also on the list is presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, and the Director General of the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Renewed efforts by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, to resolve the lingering crisis between him and the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, failed again as their Thursday meeting could ...

By Laurence Ani:For the generation straddling the pre- and post-civil war years, the story of the struggle for Nigeria’s independence is a compelling history learned and internalized at childhood. Of course, it wasn’t surprising that the leading political figures of that era became exemplars of ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Soldiers have confirmed a fresh coup in Burkina Faso. Armed men who wore masks appeared on television on Friday night to confirm the ouster of President Paul-Henri Damiba. This is the second coup in the West African country this ...

By Don Silas As part of activities commemorating the 62nd Independence Anniversary of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation on Saturday, October 1, 2022, at 7 am.Television, radio stations and other electronic media outlets are enjoined to hook up to the network services ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was absent on Thursday when the presidential candidates of other political parties signed a peace accord ahead of the 2023 elections. Tinubu, who is ...

September 24, 2022The workers had on August 12, 2022, shut down the national grid to draw the government’s attention to their plight.The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has threatened to shut down the national grid again, if the federal government fails to meet their demands.The ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday confirmed that four persons died while one was rescued in the building collapse at Oye Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in Mushin, Lagos.The NEMA South West Zonal Coordinator, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria ...

The federal government, in 2021, engaged the services of a US firm to recover illicit funds allegedly traced to the account of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).The firm was also contracted to retrieve such funds from the accounts of Ayodele Fayose, former ...

The Federal Government is currently gearing up to put the Transmission Company of Nigeria, up for sale, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.The fresh move comes on the heels of stalled negotiations between the Federal Government and the National Union of Electricity Employees as the latter threatens to shut ...

By Deji  ElumoyePresident Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the readiness of Nigeria towards the realisation of inclusive and sustainable development goals for the country.The President spoke yesterday in New York at the Strategic High Level Event to mark the Official Launch of the Nigeria Integrated ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The federal government has told the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to obey the National Industrial Court ruling and call off its seven-month strike. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, gave the ...

The Ijaw Youth Consultative Forum and Sagbama indigenes residing in the Federal Capital Territory have congratulated the newly appointed Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd).In a statement issued on Thursday, Comrade Preye Ebizimor, ...

Presidency planning to ‘impose’ Yusuf Buhari’s doctor as CMD of National HospitalBy Umar AuduForces at the Presidency are making frantic efforts to compromise the process of appointing a substantive Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the National Hospital, Abuja, DAILY NIGERIAN gathered.The Aso Rock ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. .The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has expressed determination to fully participate in political activities that would culminate in 2023 general elections. To this end, it has inaugurated a Committee on Political Strategy ...

…Says average of N50 trillion electronic transactions  made yearlyBy Henry UmoruTHE  Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission,  ICPC has raised the alarm that money to fix Nigeria is  in the country, but being stolen on daily basis and made possible through  pervasive  ...

By Olawale AjimotokanThe federal government unveiled the activities lined up for Nigeria’s 62nd Independence Anniversary billed for October 1.The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed reeled out the activities yesterday at a media briefing also attended by the Permanent Secretary ...