BY GODWIN OBI The Katsina State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has presented an auspicious honour to Kanwan Katsina, District Head of Ketare Alhaji Usman Bello Kankara ‘mni’ for his contribution to the development of the journalism profession. The presentation was made recent when the Katsina StateContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI AT LEAST, FOUR CHILDREN AND TWO MIDDLE AGED PERSONS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED DEAD IN A BOAT ACCIDENT THAT OCCURED IN TUNGAN LEDA, BORGU LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGER STATE. THE NATIONAL INLAND WATERWAYS AUTHORITY (NIWA), THROUGH ITS SAFETY AGENT DISCLOSED THAT THE BOAT MISHAP OCCURED AT TUNGAN LEDA,Continue Reading
BY ADOLPHUS DURU There was panic in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Tuesday evening as loud explosion rocked the ancient city, with buildings collapsing due to terrific vibration. Residents, who spoke with Channels Television, said houses and cars far from the scene of the explosion were impacted by theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Scores of people are reportedly missing after a passenger boat with about 100 people on board capsized in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. Director General, Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Abdullahi Baba Arah, confirmed the incident to newsmen. He said that the number ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI There is hope that private scanning service providers including Cotecna Destination Inspection Ltd (CDIL), SGS Scanning Nigeria Ltd and others may find their way back into the system as the Federal Government said on Monday that it would consider reintroducing Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for the installation andContinue Reading
BY AMBROSE OKEHI Tantita Security Services Limited is on it again. This time around and in keeping to its official mandate of ridding the country of oil theives, Tantita, a private security firm, has again arrested an ocean-going vessel conveying thousands of metric tonnes of ‘stolen crude’ oil offshore BayelsaContinue Reading
BY GODWIN AND ADA EZEH Terrorists, bandits, and criminals of other hues took their inglorious activities in the country to a new dimension in the last 48 hours, wreaking mayhem in six states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Their deadly operations across five of the six geo-political zonesContinue Reading
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, assured Nigerians not to be bothered about the mass exodus of skilled workers from the country, assuring the citizens that the Federal Government in collaboration with sub-nationals will train more persons to fill the professional gap now conspicuous in health, tech and other sectors. TheContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its operatives from the Lagos Zonal Command have arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Chukwuemeka Ugwuh, for an alleged conspiracy and fraud to the tune of N3.6bn. Head Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele OyewaleContinue Reading
—Trend threatens banks intermediary role — Analysts —Companies’ access to credit curbed as cost of credit rises BY GODWIN OBI As more multinational companies exit Nigeria over exchange rate volatility, economists and other Investment analysts fear that more businesses may face similar fate as the amount of banks’ deposits with theContinue Reading