A fire outbreak has razed down up to 30 hectares of farmlands in Abia State, according to Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria. The fire outbreak amid a cocoa price surge could result in a 4 per cent drop in supply and a loss of about 11,000 tons of the chocolate ingredient pod during the mid-crop…
Following the pronouncement by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede where he indicted an unnamed religious sect for financing terrorism, the Archbishop Metropolitan and the Primate of Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba has charged the federal government and the anti-graft agency, to identify such…
Ebonyi State Governor, Rt. Honourable Francis Nwifuru, has directed the Commissioner for Education in the State to provide the lists of students in public schools set to write the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) across the 13 local government areas of the state. According to the governor, he chose…
The Federal Government has set up a ministerial committee towards resolving the challenges associated with gas supply to power-generating companies (GenCos) in the country. Bolaji Tunji, special adviser on strategic communication and media relations to the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The government attributed the main cause of…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over the failure to disclose, clarify and explain the details of National Assembly budget of N344.85 billion, and the rationale for several budget items, such as the N6 billion…
The cement price in Nigeria rose by 100 per cent in the last three years amid soaring inflation and hardship.Cement price leapfrogged from 3,300 and 3,500 per 50 kg bag in 2021 to a record high N7,000 in February 2024. Last year, the Cement Producers Association of Nigeria warned that the federal government’s plan to…
Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji has advocated gender equality in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM. He made the call in his speech, on Sunday, in commemoration of this year’s International Day for women and girls in science, tagged “Women and Girls in Science Leadership — a New Era for Sustainability.”…
The management ofImo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH), Orlu has called on the general public to disregard the report on the fire incident that took place at Hospital premises on Monday, 5th February as it is not the actual reflection of the fire incident. IMSUTH Management in a press release signed by the Public Relations…
The Member representing the South-East on the Governing Board of the North-East Development Commission, Rep. Sam Onuigbo has been inaugurated as the Chairman of the Climate Change Trade Group of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). Onuigbo, sponsor of Nigeria’s Climate Change was inaugurated during the inauguration Ceremony of the 12th President of…
A Pro-democracy group, the Abia Rejoice Movement(ARM), on Friday, lauded the Governor Alex Otti on the recent flag-off and commencement of the reconstruction of umuahia-uzuakoli-Akara-Abiriba-Ohafia road. In a statement issued on Friday on behalf of its leader, Dr Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, the Abia movement hailed Governor Otti-led administration for its pragmatic intervention to fix the…
