Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is to deliver the 2021 edition of The Bullion Lecture. Professor Danbatta is a renowned scholar, an erudite engineer, astute administrator, philanthropist, and a nation builder per…
Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Mr Muhammad Nami has stressed the need for adequate investment in empowerment of women and girl child to promote tax administration in Nigeria. Nami made the call at the 2020 Year-end…
By Uwana Akpan President and chairman of National council of Nigerian Institution of Estates Surveyors and Valuers, (NIESV), Emma Okas Wike has bared his mind on the issue bothering on real estate in the country, stressing tha insecurity, among other…
The Nigerian Youth Organisation (NYO) has advised Malam Abdulrasheed Bawa, the new Executive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), to evolve new strategies to combat financial and cyber crime in Nigeria. The National Secretary of NYO, Mr Alamboye…
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Sunday urged the Federal Government to declare and treat abductors of schoolchildren as terrorists. NANS National President, Sunday Asefon, who said the incessant kidnapping of pupils particularly Friday’s abduction of over 300 schoolgirls…
By Moses Adeniyi The Federal Government in its effort to curb the spreading wings of banditry across the Federation has carried out a mapping of forest routes across northern Nigeria. Nigerian NewsDirect gathered that the mapping which was supposed to…
Enugu State Traditional Rulers’ Council has urged residents of the state to protect themselves and their families from COVID-19 pandemic by obeying laid-down safety measures against the spread. The Chairman of the Council, Igwe Lawrence Agubuzu, gave the advice while…
President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condoled with the Emir of Fika and Chairman of the Yobe State Council of Traditional Rulers over the death of his eldest son, Ibn Abali Muhammad Idrissa. Lawan, in a statement in Abuja on…
…Cautions against hoarding, panic buying …As Marketers shut stations By Ogaga Ariemu, Akinyemi Kehinde and Adeboye Faizat Contrary to speculations of imminent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)…
…As Ondo hunters rescue Abuja-bound travelers from kidnappers By Ayo Fadimu President Muhamma du Buhari has assured Nigerians that last Friday’s abduction of female students from Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, will be the last to happen. The president’s…
