Police approve new dress code for female officers
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has approved a new and improved dress code for women officers. The new dress code permits female officers to wear stud earrings, and headscarf under their berets or peak caps as the case may be while in uniform. The dress code was unveiled at the IGP’s meeting with Strategic Police Managers on March...
Ex-Perm Sec, Echono, is new TETFund Executive Secretary
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Sunny Echono as the new Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Echono takes over from Prof. Sulaiman Bogoro whose five-year tenure ends on March 18. Bogoro was initially appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan in April 2014, was replaced and re-appointed. Echono is as an accomplished technocrat with wealth of experience...
Nigerian returnees from Ukraine get FG’s $100
The Federal Government on Friday gave all returnees from Ukraine $100 (about N48,000) to ameliorate their sufferings. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) made the disclosure in Abuja. The first batch of 450 Nigerians stranded in Ukraine returned home from Romania through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Spokesman of NiDCOM, Mr. Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said that the returnees, mostly students, arrived Nigeria...
Buhari shelves London’s trip, returns to Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, returned to Abuja after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. The latest development is contrary to the earlier plan that Buhari would be heading to London for a two-week medical check-up. However, a presidential aide, Buhari Sallau, said the President has return to Abuja on Friday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja, after...
FG likens petrol scarcity to ‘accident’ as NNPC begins 24 -hr loading at depots
The Federal Government has likened the prolonged petrol scarcity in the country to an accident, saying it was undesirable and unexpected. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, said this in Abuja that the present administration has done a lot over the years to ensure petrol availability and at the right price. Despite the long queues visible at...
Russian soldiers seize largest European nuclear plant in Ukraine
Russian forces seized the largest nuclear power plant in Europe after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian authorities said on Friday. Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia plant had spread alarm across world capitals, before authorities said the fire in a building identified as a training centre, had...
Cocaine deal: Our case against Kyari, 6 others, by NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dragged a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, to a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged illegal cocaine dealing. Kyari was charged on eight counts alongside four Intelligence Response Team (IRT) operatives: namely; Sunday J. Ubua, an Assistant Commissioner of Police; Bawa James, an Assistant Superintendent of Police; Simon Agirgba, an...
N26.6bn Fraud: Ex-Bank PHB Director, Adenmosun remanded in prison
Justice Daniel Osiagor of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of a former Director of Bank PHB (now Keystone), Funmi Adenmosun, currently standing trial over alleged N26.6 billion fraud in Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending perfection of his bail condition. The former banker was on January 21, 2022, arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial...
PHOTOS: First batch of Nigerians arrive Abuja from Romania
The first batch of Nigerians from the war-torn Ukraine arrived Abuja Friday morning from Romania. They were conveyed by Max Air. The 747-400 aircraft with Registration number 5N-HMM touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja by 06:11a.m. Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the arrival of the stranded Nigerians. “First batch of Nigerians from #Ukraine arrived...
16 govs, Malami, Omo-Agege, Wase chair APC convention committees
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has appointed 16 governors, some ministers and lawmakers as chairmen and deputy chairmen of sub-committees for the National Convention of the party. The latest development was made known in a statement issued by the CECPC National Secretary, Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, on Thursday. The APC National Convention has been slated to hold...
