Month: January 2022

By Ijeoma Nwankpa, Abuja, Nigeria. The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has organized a retreat on the review of the Pension Reform Act 2014 (PRA 2014) in Abuja. The retreat is aimed at identifying salient issues to be reviewed in the PRA 2014 asa prelude to advancing legislative action on the […]

The trial of Saidu Abdu Abdullahi, a self-acclaimed Malaysian-trained software engineer, continued today, January 21, 2022, before Justice A.O. Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, with the first prosecution witness, PWI, Chuks Igboerika, revealing to the court how the defendant had deposited fake Euro notes to the tune […]

Justice S. D. Pam of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced, Abdullahi Umar to two years imprisonment for illegally dealing in petroleum products without appropriate license. Umar was convicted on Tuesday January 18, 2022 after pleading “guilty” to a one-count charge preferred […]

Rivers State Independent Newspaper Propreitors Association ( RIVPA) has sent a congratulatory message to the newly elected executive of the Rivers State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists ( NUJ) The association in a statement on Friday, January 21, 2022 signed by its Chairman, Jerry Needam said ‘Wewish to […]

The National Association of Rivers State Students has suspended its election scheduled to hold on Saturday January 22,2022 . The union also passed a vote of no confidence on its Electoral Committee( Eleco) Chairman, Siyeofori Ogan for gross misconduct. In a 5 point communique at the end of its meeting […]

The Kano State Government has ordered the immediate closure of Noble Kids Academy,a private school in Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state where a 5 – year- old pupil of the school,Hanifa Abubakar,was kidnapped and killed and her body mutilated and buried within the school premises. Her class teacher, […]

By Goodluck Ikiebe. The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has expressed the readiness of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) in sustaining the collaborative healthcare arrangement with the National Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). This, he said is in order to further improve healthcare services for members […]

The General Officer Commanding 6 Division and land component Commander , Operation Delta Safe, Major General Olufemi Oluyede says the development of gender policy by the military is an adoption of the federal government policy to promote gender mainstreaming and women empowerment in the military, which is often regarded as […]

By Goodluck Ikiebe. Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has decorated his son, Adeboye Obasanjo, as Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army, following his promotion and having passed through the military mills within and outside Nigeria. Obasanjo, a former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was accorded a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians of his determination to handover a better Nigeria than what he inherited. The President who stated this on Thursday in Kafachan , where he had gone to commission newly constructed projects, said he would do all that he can to improve the quality of […]