The Senate of the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi (FUBK), has approved Monday for the resumption of academic activities in the institution. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Jamilu Magaji. Magaji...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC) and Daewoo Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the rehabilitation of the Kaduna refinery. This was disclosed via a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President...
Peter Eze, the Special Assistant to the Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu, has won the 2022 China-Nigeria Friendship Award. Kalu’s aide received the award at an event organised by the...
Covenant University and 47 other Nigerian universities have been listed among the world’s best in the Times Higher Education 2023 Subject Ranking. The Chairman of the Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, made this known via a...
Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) has reported profit before tax of N169.7 billion, representing an increase of 11.7 per cent over N151.9 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2021. GTCO made this known via its unaudited consolidated and...
A biochemist at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Dr Eucharia Nwaichi, has won the 2022 John Maddox Prize for her evidence-based approach to uniting conflicting communities over pollution in the Niger Delta. Nwaichi becomes the 11th recipient of the prize...
The Federal Government has announced the selected preferred and reserve bidders for Nigerian airports concession. The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, made the announcement when he addressed newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Sirika, the preferred bidder for the...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has departed Nigeria for the United States to lobby senior government officials and Congress men and women to back his presidential bid ahead of the 2023 general election. It...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the Kogi State Government from shutting down Dangote Cement Company in Obajana area of the state. The court also stopped the Kogi State Government from disrupting or suspending the activities...
An FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced a self acclaimed pastor, Esther Oyinabo, to 15 years imprisonment for trafficking a four-day-old baby. Also sentenced by the presiding judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, was Segun Oladele. Oyinabo and Oladele were...