By Gabriel Agbeja Dr Bashir Jamoh, Director-General, Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), says the blue economy will offer 350 million jobs to Nigerian citizens if adequately harnessed. Jamoh, who was represented by the Acting Coordinator of NIMASA, Abuja Office, Hajia Rakiya Lamai, made this known during the NIMASAContinue Reading
By Philip Yatai The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), FCT Administration, says community participation in emergency management is crucial to disaster risk reduction in the country. Mrs Florence Wenegieme, Director, Forecasting, Response and Mitigation, FEMA, stated this on Friday in Abuja during the agency’s ongoing sensitisation campaign inContinue Reading
By Sumaila Ogbaje The Nigerian Army has announced the launch of three training exercises across the country to forestall criminality during the Yuletide period. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.- Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, who briefed newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the training exercises would hold in the SouthContinue Reading
By Sumaila Ogbaje The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, has commended the Nigeria Armed Forces for the determination to secure Nigeria. Badaru gave the commendation at the graduation of Army War College Nigeria (AWCN) Course 7/2023 participants, on Friday in Abuja. He said that the military had displayedContinue Reading
By Sylvester Thompson Chief Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, on Friday said Nigeria must increase production to strengthen the naira and boost the economy. Nnaji stated this at a news conference on readiness for implementation of Presidential Executive Order N0 5 in Abuja on Friday. The PresidentialContinue Reading
By Collins Yakubu-Hammer The National Youth Assembly of Nigeria (NYAN), an independent youth-centric group, has called for urgent action by the Federal Government to address the prevailing insecurity in the country. This is contained in a statement by the National Speaker of NYAN, Rt. Hon. Usman Bashir Shagari on FridayContinue Reading
By Blessing Ibegbu Karu community and environs in FCT were thrown into uproar on Friday due to reports of alleged male genitals disappearing mysteriously. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that in the past three weeks, more than 10 people in the communities allegedly lost their organs to someContinue Reading
By Chiazo Ogbolu The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), the Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Ikeja, said it intercepted eight trailer loads of foreign parboiled rice and others worth N1.76 billion in September. The acting Controller General of Customs (CGC), Mr Adewale Adeniyi, said this at a news conference onContinue Reading
By Felicia Imohimi An NGO under the auspices of Lift Humanity Foundation (LHF) has reiterated the need for capacity building for skilled workforce in the renewable energy sector. Mr Pius Oko, the Executive Secretary of LHF, said this at a workshop and launching of a policy brief on Renewable EnergyContinue Reading
By Sumaila Ogbaje The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, says that President Bola Tinubu has demonstrated commitment to promote national unity and cohesion as key element of his Renewed Hope Agenda. Matawalle said this at the inauguration of the National Defence College (NDC) Course 32, withContinue Reading
