The Federal Operations Unit, Zone D of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded a tanker truck loaded with 502 bags of foreign parboiled rice. Customs Comptroller in charge of Zone D, Comptroller Musa Ibrahim Jalo, said the unregistered truck...
A young boy in Kano, Faisal, has built a tricycle from scratch. The photos posted on social media by a twitter handler, mmgwani, show different stages of the building of the tricycle; from the sketch drawing to assembling and the...
Barely a few weeks after getting married to Mariam Anako from Kogi State, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, is set to take two new wives, Tobi Phillips and Afolasade Ashley Adegoke. It was gathered that Ooni would be getting...
The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has appointed Mr. Akin Morakinyo as its new registrar/chief executive. Morakinyo’s appointment was announced at the meeting of the institute’s governing council on September 29. The appointment takes effect November 1. Morakinyo, who is...
The Board of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group) has appointed Dr. Umaru Kwairanga as its new Chairman. Kwairanga’s appointment was approved at the board meeting on Wednesday. Prior to his appointment as the substantive Chairman, Mr. Apollos Ikpobe, a Non-Executive...
Security has been beefed up at the main gates to the National Assembly complex as President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2023 budget estimate of N19.76 trillion to a joint session of the Assembly. A crop of security agents including the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the freed 23 passengers of the March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) hospital in Kaduna. The President, according to his spokesman, Garba Shehu, made an impromptu visit...
Seplat Energy Plc has said its energy transition priorities were to end flaring, monetise gas, displace diesel and biomass with cleaner fuel, extend along power value chain, and target smaller-scale gas-to-power customers. The Seplat Energy CEO, Roger Brown, said this...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has appointed directors and deputy directors for the party’s National Campaign Management Committee (NCMC). This was made known via a statement issued on Thursday by the Director General of...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has approved an extension of teachers' retirement age from 60 to 65 years in the state. Zulum announced this in Maiduguri on Wednesday to commemorate the 2022 World Teachers Day. The governor, who was represented at...