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30Jul By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments

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Kyari Assures of Prompt Delivery of AKK Gas Pipeline

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has assured that the ongoing 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project would be delivered on schedule, create prosperity through massive job opportunities, and guarantee peace for the country. A statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr. Kennie Obateru, disclosed that the GMD stated this Thursday at Gas Sector Stakeholders’ Forum which held in Kano, Kano State, with the theme: “Optimizing the Economic Development Capacity of Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline Project”. In a paper titled: “The AKK as an Economic Development Game-Changer – NNPC’s Vision, Contributions, & Plan Forward,” Mallam Kyari, stated that the AKK g...

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30Jul By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Blueprint Moves Headquarters From Maitama to Utako

The Abuja based national newspaper Blueprint Newspaper Limited is primarily in the business of reporting and analysing news but also makes news once in a while. The newspaper which only recently organised a highly successful awards programme went on to make news again within the week as it relocated its headquarters from the highbrow, secluded Maitama District where it had been since its inception to a more business-friendly Utako District. With this relocation, the business is set to enjoy easy accessibility and improved visibility, bigger parking space for staff and clients, etc. The new Blueprint Head Office is housed in an imposing 3- storey, 8- flat building at 59, Moses A. Majekodunmi Crescent (opposite Big Joe Transport), Off Ngozi Okonjo-lweala Way, Utako District, Abuja. ...

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29Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Cleric Canvasses Peace to Achieve National Progress

A Zonal Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Joseph Emmanuel, has said that promoting peace in Nigeria will advance national development. Joseph, who spoke at a “Divine Encounter“ crusade organised by the RCCG King of Glory Parish, Buzunkure- Pegi Village, Abuja, said peace would promote love, unity and integrity amongst Nigerians. According to him, the nation will enjoy divine encounter if the citizens can pray faithfully as nothing is impossible with God. Emmanuel said the nation stood to further enjoy divine safety and prosperity if citizens could recognise the supremacy of God. “If all can trust God, He can change a seemingly hopeless situation to peaceful and hopeful situation as He did for Mordecai. “Divine encounter can bring salvation, hea...

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29Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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NPHCDA Director Bags Boardroom Leadership Awards

The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has received boardroom leadership awards 2.0 for "Africa's COVID-19 Hero of All Time". Mr Jeffrey Adaralegbe, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Boardroom News, while presenting the award, said it was in recognition of his efforts in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 and the vacine distribution model as best in Africa. According to him, the award is in recognition of Dr Shuaib’s selfless service to Nigeria, particularly in the areas on the fight against COVID-19 pandemic together with efforts, aimed at improving primary health care services across the country. "I wish to place it on record that since this pandemic broke out the staff of the Agency have not had time to rest, wh...

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29Jul By Seun AdamsNo Comments

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TCN Says Nation’s Grid Restored after Collapse

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Thursday said the nation’s power grid had been fully restored as at 4:59 PM on Wednesday the 28th after a grid collapse which occurred at about 12:20 pm the same day. TCN admitted that the collapse was triggered by a sudden drop in system frequency to 47.21Hz. Mrs. Ndidi Mba, General Manager, Public Affairs for the Company, in a statement said, reports received from SCADA and other power generating stations showed that at about 12:20 pm, two generating units tripped in one generating station while four equally tripped in another generating station, causing a loss of 261MW and 350MW respectively, bringing the total loss of electricity on the grid to 611MW. It is suspected that the sudden loss of 611MW from the grid, caused system instab...

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27Jul By Mohammed MohammedNo Comments

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NCC Moves to Strengthen Judicial Collaboration over Telecoms Service Challenges

 In a bid to further protect telecoms infrastructure in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has restated its commitment to continue to strengthen collaboration with judicial institutions in Nigeria.   The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, gave the assurance during a courtesy visit by a high-powered delegation of the Kano State Judiciary to the chief telecom regulator at the NCC Kano Zonal Office, in Kano, over the weekend.  Addressing the judicial delegation, Danbatta said, while the Commission is doing everything within its regulatory mandate to enforce compliance among licensees as well as collaborating with stakeholders to protect telecom infrastructure, some individuals indulge in willful damage ...

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27Jul By Dwelleth MorountodunNo Comments

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Onu: Why African Youths Must Embrace STEM

The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, on Monday said African youths must be encouraged to study subjects bordering on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for their respective countries to achieve sustainable and meaningful development. The Minister made the disclosure in Abuja on his investiture as the Patron for the upcoming Sahel Military games. Dr. Onu who was made the patron of the Sahel Military games which is to be held in Nigeria said that the games would help integrate African armies and foster peace in the Sahel region. He further advocated for African nations to invest more in Scientific Research and development. Dr. Onu said that for African countries to stem the tide of illegal migration through the Mediterranean Sea, they must be ...

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26Jul By Seun AdamsNo Comments

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Court Restrains Union from Strike Action, Picketing FIRS Offices

The National Industrial Court (NIC), Abuja Judicial Division has restrained the National Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) from either picketing the offices of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) nationwide or calling for a strike at any of the Service’s offices across Nigeria.  Justice O. Y. Anuwe issued the order of interim injunction on Friday in a suit which the FIRS as Claimant/Applicant instituted against NCSU, the Defendant/Respondent.  In a statement made available to the Media, the Director, Communications and Liaison Department, Dr. Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad, said the court ordered that “the Respondents are restrained from picketing the offices of the applicant on 26th July 2021 or any other day pending the determination of the Motion on Notice. They are ...

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22Jul By Seun AdamsNo Comments

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Debt: Akerele Says Nigeria Not Insolvent, Debt Profile Sustainable

The Convener: Borrow Right Africa and Country Representative of Policy House International, Mr. Taiwo Akerele, has said Nigeria is not technically insolvent even as he urged that the country’s current debt profile is sustainable. In a statement made available to the media, he debunked the views as held in some quarters that Nigeria is a heavily indebted nation. Such view, Akerele, said is driven by ignorance of principles governing international lending and borrowing by countries from development finance institutions, adding that it is the belief of the NGO that most Nigerians are mixing the issues all together. He added: “While we do not subscribe to reckless borrowing, we believe that the role of citizens under international citizens’ engagement principles is to get government ...

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20Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Kuje Labour Party councillorship candidate promises basic infrastructure

Comrade Fanimi Oluwabusayo, popularly called BIGGY the councillorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for Gaube Ward, Kuje Area Council, FCT, has promised to give priority to education and basic infrastructures if elected. BIGGY who made the call in an interview with Newsmen in Kuje, promised to be accountable and responsive to the needs of the people with priority to education and infrastructures. According to him, education is the foundation and key to all human development, adding that he would also intensify on poverty alleviation programmmes with specific focus on youth employment and empowerment. “No nation develops without a very sound and solid educational policy and programmes because education develops the total man. "I am also believing that if we give our people...

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19Jul By Mohammed MohammedNo Comments

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Shehu to Kukah: Only Buhari Has Demonstrated Willingness to Address Heder-Farmer Clash

The federal government has said it is only the Buhari Administration that has singularly put in plan to address Nigeria's herder challenges in the many years of the country's existence. Mallams Garba Shehu, Buhari's SSA on Media in a statement, said it iis unfortunate, and disappointing, for citizens of Nigeria to bear witness to one of their Churchmen castigating their country in front of representatives of a foreign parliament.Shehu, said Nigerians are familiar with these overseas political tours that opposition politicians take - visiting foreign leaders and legislators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. So, the argument goes, if they are heard seriously abroad, then Nigerian citizens back home should surely listen to them too, he added. He said: "But in order to...

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19Jul By Seun AdamsNo Comments

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Airtel’s Operating Licence Still Pending Renewal -NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the operating licence of Airtel is still pending and is yet to be renewed. The Executive Director of Public Affairs for the Commission, Dr. Ikechukwu Ikechuckwu, said “The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been drawn to a recent statement on an online publication credited to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Office of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Olusegun Ogunsanya, to the effect that the mobile operating licence of Airtel has been renewed by the Commission for another period of 10 years.”  According to Adinde, Ogunsanya was said to have made the statement while speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, July 14, during the media launch of Airtel’s corporate social responsibility programme, ‘Touching Lives 6...

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18Jul By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments

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Stop Incitement to Murder by Clerics, MRA tells FG

Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today condemned the growing trend of clerics and other religious leaders in Nigeria inciting their followers to violence and murder against persons accused of blasphemy or insulting their religions and called on the Federal and respective State Governments to take decisive action to arrest the situation. The organization said the current situation where the Federal Government and many State Governments are turning a blind eye in the face of incessant calls by so-called religious leaders on their followers to kill other citizens who are alleged to have insulted any religion or religious figure or accused of blasphemy is unacceptable and unjustifiable as incitement to violence or murder is an offence under Nigerian laws. In a statement issued in Lagos, MRA’s ...

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14Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Why I Didn’t Honour Lawmakers’ Invitation – Suspended Kano Anti-corruption Chair

The embattled Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Magaji has said he was unable to appear before the State of House of Assembly due to an undisclosed medical condition.  The Kano State House of Assembly had invited the suspended anti-graft boss to appear before its ad-hoc committee investigating a petition against him on Wednesday July 14, 2021. Magaji who spoke to journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, however, insisted that that his suspension by the lawmakers was done out of malice, saying he was never giving a fair hearing. Recalled that the lawmakers had earlier suspended the anti-graft boss for one month over alleged rejection of an accountant posted to his commission by the office of the Accountant-General of the state.  Follo...

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14Jul By Seun AdamsNo Comments

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Nigeria’s First Solar Panel Inventor, Dania, Now to Oversee SEDI

The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC)/Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof Mohammed Haruna has appointed Engr. David Dania to oversee the affairs of the Scientific Equipment Development Institute (SEDI) Enugu. Dania was the first scientist to developed the first solar panel manufacturing plant in Nigeria, the 7.5 MW NASENI solar panel manufacturing plant at Karshi Abuja, and produced the first made in Nigeria solar module. The appointment arose following the recent vacuum created by the death of late Prof Samuel N. Ndubisi, even as Haruna, added that this is coming pending the appointment of a substantive Director In a letter, Dania was directed to commence overseeing the affairs of the institute with immediate effec...

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12Jul By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments

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Sanwoolu, Abdulrahman To Head APC Reconciliation Efforts in Anambra

Following the recently-concluded, All Progressives Congress (APC) Primaries to elect the Party's flagbearer for the November 6th Anambra State Governorship Elections, the Governor Mai Mala Buni-chaired Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has appointed the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu and the Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman to unify and strengthen the party in the state ahead of the elections. The two-party leaders are charged with the responsibility of bringing together all the erstwhile aspirants and their supporters to join the campaign organisation of the party and achieve victory for the APC in the state. The Chairman of CECPC mandated the two governors to do everything reasonable and necessary to ensure that al...

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9Jul By Dayo OmoogunNo Comments

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NNPC Commits to Ensuring Energy Sufficiency, Wealth Creation for Nigerians

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring effective stewardship of the nation’s hydrocarbon resources to guarantee energy security and drive wealth creation in Nigeria. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, made this assertion while delivering the keynote address at the 2021 Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition (NOG 2021) on Tuesday in Abuja. Speaking on the topic: “Vision and Priorities for Nigeria’s Energy Transformation,” Mallam Kyari stated that for a nation with a teeming youth and a developing economy, Nigeria needed the right policies to unlock its huge economic potential, stressing that NNPC was working towards bridging the energy gap to multiply wealth for its varied stakeholders. “We see a nat...

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7Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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Nigeria Conservation Foundation Appoints Communication, Business Strategist

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), on Wednesday announced the appointment of Mr Uchenna Achunine, a former Executive Director, Centre for Memories (CFM) Enugu to lead its communications and business development team. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by Dr Muhtari Aminu-Kano, NCF’s Director-General. It said Achunine’s appointment will impact the foundation positively and bring a great turnaround in NCF’s stakeholders’ engagement, developing new opportunities, and building and expanding the presence of the organization locally and globally. “He successfully developed and led a 5-year repositioning and growth strategy of the NGO within the broad context of the local, national & international landscape. ”Achunine who could be tagged as P...

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7Jul By Sharpedge NewsNo Comments

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Kano Gov Commends NCC Boss over ICT Parks Projects

The Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, has commended the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC)/CEO, of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, on the ongoing construction of ICT parks in North-Western zone and across the 6 geopolitical zones of the country. Ganduje, bared his mind when he visited the site of an ongoing construction of an ICT Park by the Commission for the North-Western zone located in Kano State, recently. The governor acknowledged the efforts and commitment of the Danbatta-led NCC in ensuring increased digital access for fast-tracking digital innovation across Nigeria and the North-West in particular, saying the initiative will trigger socio-economic transformation of the area in no distant future. He said, “Realising that a maj...

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7Jul By Gami TadanyigbeNo Comments

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FRSC tasks motorists in Kuje on permanent drivers license

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kuje Unit Command, Federal Capital Territory has called on motorists with temporary drivers’ licenses in the area to pick up the permanent ones. The Kuje Unit Commander, Mr Eugene Nwabuike, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje on Wednesday. Nwabuike said that the call had become necessary as the command had on Monday, embarked on a special patrol, tagged “Operation Show Your Drivers License”, in an effort to improve road safety. According to him, the command would look out for drivers with no valid license, with expired license and those driving with expired temporary license. He urged motorists to be concerned about the very important driving document, saying that the command would not leave any ston...

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