The National Economic Council on Thursday announced plans to channel at least $1.52bn donor funds into 36 special agro-industrial processing zones across the nation, aiming to create over 18.1 million jobs, including 100,000 farmers nationwide. The first phase, which now runs in Kano, Kaduna, Kwara, Ogun, Oyo, Imo, Cross River states as well as the…
Omawunmi, the wife of late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, says she is ready for the DNA test, which the father-in-law, Joseph Aloba, is requesting. Ekweanaedo News reports that the latest development was disclosed by Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, during an Instagram live session on Thursday. Recall that earlier this week, a Police…
Labour unions have fired President Bola Tinubu Federal Government for slashing the supplementary budgetary allocation for wage awards to federal civil servants by N100bn, warning that this was not the agreement they had with the government. The Federal Government, as part of steps to assuage labour unions, had granted a wage award of N35,000 to…
The Enugu State government has embarked on the construction of new 260-type 2 primary healthcare centres across the state. Governor Peter Mbah disclosed this on Thursday when he received the minister of state for health and social welfare, Dr Tunji Alausa, at the Government House, Enugu. Mbah said the state government had taken significant steps…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved the sacking of the General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Bolaji Oreagba. The dismissal of Oreagba was made known by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation, Olawale Musa, in a statement on Thursday. He disclosed that Governor Sanwo-Olu has appointed Bakare-Oki…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, is set to resign as a minister to represent Plateau South Senatorial District in the Senate. This followed the collection of his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Thursday, November 23, 2023. The Court of Appeal had, on November 7,…
The world’s biggest iceberg is on the move after more than 30 years being stuck to the ocean floor. A23a, as it’s called, calved from the Antarctic coastline in 1986, but almost immediately grounded in the Weddell Sea to become, essentially, an ice island. At almost 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles) in area, it’s…
The long-anticipated four-day pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas is due to begin now The temporary ceasefire was due to start at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) and the first group of 13 hostages held by Hamas will be freed at 16:00, according to Qatari mediators Under the deal, Hamas will release 50…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, on Thursday, said it would end the importation of refined petroleum products by December 2024 as all the country’s refineries would be operational by then. It also projected that the national oil firm would grow its revenue to N4.5tn at the end of 2023 adding that the rehabilitation of…
A new revelation by the BBC shows that a key political ally of Vladimir Putin has adopted a child seized from a Ukrainian children’s home Sergey Mironov, the 70-year-old leader of a Russian political party, is named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is…
