The Sun editor, Femi Babafemi, appointed NDLEA’s Director of Media The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has appointed editor, Saturday Sun, Mr. Femi Babafemi as the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy. The appointment, which takes immediate effect will enable the new appointee leverage on his almost two and half decades experience in...
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The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has said virtual assets and cryptocurrencies are risky for implementation in Nigeria. Prof. Owasanoye made this known in his presentation to the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions during its hearing on...
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Muyiwa Bamidele The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of the immediate past service chiefs as non career Ambassadors following consideration of the report of the Senate committee on Foreign Affairs. They are General Abayomi Olonisakin Rtd (Ekiti), Lt General Tukur Buratai Rtd (Borno), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas Rtd (Cross River), Air Marshal...
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No less than 1 in 5 individuals in Lagos, Enugu, and the Nasarawa States have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus), even as more Nigerians are still at risk, according to findings of COVID-19 Household Seroprevalence Surveys in Four States of Nigeria. The surveys were conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,...
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Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has expressed delight over the appointment of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The regional group in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, said: “It gives us great pleasure to extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Okonjo-Iweala...
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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says it is uncharitable for Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to label his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, as a ‘terrorist governor’. Fani-Kayode made this known in a string of tweets on Monday night hours after Ortom called Mohammed a Fulani terror member for saying herdsmen bear...
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has extended until June its contracts with private companies to swap crude oil for fuels, Reuters quoted a company spokesman, as saying yesterday. The latest extension is the second extension of the one-year contracts to exchange more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil with 15...
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—————- NCC-regulated telecoms sector, others responsible for Nigeria’s exit from recession – Commission Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said that the telecommunications industry under its watch is one of the sectors whose performance lifted the country out of recession in the fourth quarter of 2020. According to NCC, the sector contributed 12.45 percent to the...
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———— “Growing Africa’s digital infrastructure is a key foundation stone in recovering the continent from the global economic devastation of Covid,” says EAIF Investment Director The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) company, has committed to buy up to US$50,000,000 of a bond issue by Liquid Telecommunications, that is...
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Mass testing for secondary pupils as all schools and colleges fully reopen from 8 March Schools and colleges to reopen to all pupils from 8 March with asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in place University students on practical courses to return from 8 March Protective measures across education strengthened, with students in year 7 and above to wear face coverings indoors, including...
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