FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

The Dr SPAG Movement and Global Network,  has called  for more youths involvement, awareness and engagement in the process of nation building, stressing that this would ensure a better and safer sustainable environment for the youths globally, and especially in Nigeria.  Its Founder, a Popular Businessman and Author, Daniel Owodunni, made the call in a statement Signed Friday in Abuja, …

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. In a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Friday, announced the appointments of the 14 leadership of the agencies under the ministry. The appointment follows …

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has stated that as a Service subservient to the political class, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) state of readiness and preparedness remains paramount and must never be in doubt. This, according to him, was in line with NAF’s constitutional responsibility to be ready to perform tasks that may be …

President Bola Tinubu has made new five appointments of Chief Executives for some of the agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, on Wednesday. Those appointed are Aminu Maida, who had been the Executive Director of technology and operations at Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS), now appointed the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC)/CEO of the Nigerian …

Stakeholders at a two-day workshop on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) in Prison Settings through Sports have advocated an improved systemic sporting approach in the rehabilitation and reintegration process in the Nigeria Correctional Service. Speaking during the consultative workshop, organised by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) between October 10 and 11, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, both the resource …

The chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Senator Osita Ngwu, has urged global investors to take advantage of the extant favourable regulations governing the Nigerian solid minerals sector and invest in the sector for economic growth. According to the lawmaker, mining investors enjoy Nigeria’s friendly investment climate backed by legislations that safeguard local and foreign direct investments. The Senate Committee …

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, on Wednesday, disclosed that the state has taken delivery of 3000 bags of rice from the Federal Government as part of palliatives to cushion the effect of the removal of fuel subsidy. Eno disclosed this while inaugurating an 18–man committee to handle the distribution of palliatives to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy …