Airtel Nigeria has introduced new mouth-watering data offers.The New Airtel Data Plan of 2GB for N200 and 6GB for N500.This offer is coming after Globacom put the rest of the network on their toes. Although the new airtel offer can only work on 2G network but still rocks well.How to …
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Social Intervention programme,not Welfare-Osinbajo
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government’s social intervention programme was not a welfare scheme that gives handouts to the poor but the largest single dedicated provision for social investment in the country. He said this in his address at the launch of the Strategy Framework/Source Book …
Read More »Sadness as two ladies allegedly drowned at Elegushi Beach
Two ladies have reportedly drowned at the popular Elegushi beach,Lagos after being carried away by heavy tide at the beach with no safety measures in place. The two ladies,were said to be graduates of Covenant University and were at a friends birthday party on the beach before the incident. According …
Read More »Nigeria leads African countries in livestock ownership -Ogbeh
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, yesterday June 2nd, released details of the 2011 National Agricultural Sample Survey, which shows an estimated number of livestock in the country. At a news conference in Abuja, Ogbeh said the 2011 census on Nigeria’s livestock showed that the country had an …
Read More »FG appoints Ja’afaru new Prisons’ boss
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Ahmed Ja’afaru as the new Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS). This was contained in a statement signed by Mr Bassey Akpanyung, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, which was made available on Tuesday in Abuja. Until his appointment, Ja’afaru was …
Read More »Six Chibok Girls dead- Amina Ali Nkeki
One of the missing schoolgirls abducted by the fighters of the Boko Haram Islamic sect from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, Amina Ali Nkeki, has been found, the Nigerian Army has said. Activists also told the BBC that Amina was found by a vigilante group …
Read More »Social investment, govt palliatives will boost employment opportunities – FG
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, office of the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande has stated that more than 8 million Nigerians would benefit from the diverse social investment programmes in the 2016 budget spending in terms of job opportunities as well as would be a ready-made palliative …
Read More »2 different PDP groups sell nomination forms for LG election in Adamawa
Two factions of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have commenced sale of nomination forms to aspirants wishing to contest the local government elections in June in Adamawa The former executive under Chief Joel Madaki has been selling the forms to aspirants. Similarly, the new executive that emerged last week under Alhaji …
Read More »Police IG orders arrest of buyers, sellers of petrol in jerry-cans
The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has ordered the immediate arrest of persons found selling or buying petrol and other petroleum products in plastic containers. A statement by the police spokesperson, Olabisi Kolawole, said Mr. Arase gave the directive “to forestall the untold suffering and hazard emanating from the …
Read More »FG needs $700m to upgrade refineries – Kachikwu
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said on Saturday that the Federal Government needed 700 million dollars to upgrade its refineries to produce at maximum capacities. Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of NNPC, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen during the re-inauguration of …
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