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    Nigeria said that international flights from the country could re-start before or in early October, according to the Minister of Aviation announced.   Hadi Siriki wrote in response to a report earlier that international flights wouldn’t resume before October.   “International flight resumption date not October,,” Sirika said in a Tweet.   Nigeria […]

Nigeria’s presidency on Tuesday said that the removal of the country’s Service Chiefs is a prerogative of President Muhammadu Buhari, as they cannot be changed by any other authority.   Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President said this in a post on his verified Twitter account, @FemAdesina   Adesina was […]

Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday requested the country’s service chiefs to resign after a recent killing of soldiers and mass resignation of others engaged in the fight against insurgency and banditry in some parts of northern Nigeria.   The order followed a report on Monday that at least 23 Nigerian soldiers were ambushed and killed in […]

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced the convening of a Business Clinic to promote the growth and sustainability of the educational sector, especially in the light of the coronavirus which is having an adverse effect on the operations of schools across the world. The event is […]

Nigeria’s House of Representatives members has given Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, two days  to name the members of the National Assembly who got contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission, as he claimed.   Akpabio had claimed on Monday that 60 percent of the contracts awarded by the commission were given to […]

Rotimi Akeredolu , Ondo State Governor, on Monday won the gubernatorial primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC).   Akeredolu beat other contestants with 2,458 votes. The nearest rival, Olusola Oke, polled 262 votes, while the third candidate, by Isaac Kekemeke who scored 19 votes.   Other contestants and their votes included Olayide Adelami and […]

A close associate of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ismaila Isa Funtua, has died after a brief illness. He was aged 78.   Funtua died on Monday allegedly from cardiac arrest while undergoing what was supposed to be a routine medical checkup in Abuja.    In his condolence message, President Muhammadu Buhari expressed deep sadness over the […]

Godswill Akpabio, Nigeria’s Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, on Monday declared that most of the contracts being executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission are corned by members of the National Assembly. “That is how it has been,” Akpabio said, as he was being drilled by the House of Representatives Committee on the NDDC in […]

As the contentious probe of the finances of the Niger Delta Development Commission resumed Monday in Abuja, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the commission, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo,  has stepped down.   This was a condition given last week by the leadership of the NDDC, led by acting managing director,  Prof Kemebradikumo Daniel […]