President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Balarabe Ilelah, a veteran broadcaster as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed announced the appointment in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday.…
Some gunmen Thursday attacked Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, in Kaduna State, abducted some lecturers and their families. An official of Kaduna Sate Vigilance Service who spoke to newsmen but did not want his name mentioned, said some students of the…
By Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim The All Progressives Congress (APC), is a marriage of convenience or if you like, an assemblage of very strange bad fellows, housing very diverse people from different political parties, equally different with ideological standpoints and world…
By FEMI ADESINA I felt like embracing Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade, a couple of weeks back when he left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Was that because I work with a…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to donate to other countries over the next two years. According to U.S. media reports, about 200 million doses will be distributed this year…
By Salim Umar Ibrahim, Kano Impressed by Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s effort in strengthening and promoting community policing in the state, the Nigeria Police Force Community Policing Agenda has appointed the Kano state governor, as a National Patron of the association.…
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says Nigeria’s proven natural gas reserve stood at 206.53 trillion cubic feet (tcf) as at Jan.1, 2021. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR, made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja at the 2021 Nigeria International…
As the cybersecurity threat landscape becomes more complex, organizations are struggling to keep their data, applications secured, Galaxy Backbone and DataSixth (a pure-play MSSP) announced partnership to address the myriad of cyber threats. This is was contained in statement signed…
The Deputy Governor, Kaduna State, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, on Wednesday said that the state government would support women and girls in the state to be able to say, “my body is my own.” Balarabe stated this in Kaduna at the…
The Inter-Ministerial Committee on the disposal of Federal Government’s forfeited assets, has opened the bid to select auctioneers to dispose the recovered assets. The Chairman of the Committee, and Solicitor General of the Federation, Dayo Apata SAN, who declared the…
