By Our Correspondent The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has activated the Emergency Communications Centres (ECC) to fulfil needful job opportunities for Nigerian youths. Reuben Muoka, NCC’s Director of Public Affairs announced this in a statement emailed to TheNewsZenith on Thursday. Muoka stated that this move was beyond NCC’s efforts at providing essential emergency response services to […]
No fewer than 63 people died and 43 others sustained injuries, on Thursday when a building in a South African city centre caught fire, an official said. Robert Mulaudzi, spokesperson for the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, said they received information that the five-storey building was on fire at around 1.30 a.m. on Thursday […]
The President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Farouk Mudi, says the newly unveiled AGRIVEST Reality TV challenge platform would create 10 million agriculture-related jobs in five years. Mudi said this at the signing of a pact between AFAN, TINGO mobile and the Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigeria (ADAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. […]
The Akwa Ibom State Government has sealed off a Chinese mining firm, Ruitai Mining Company, for failing to produce an operation licence. State’s Commissioner for Environment and Mineral Resources, Chief Uno Eno, announced the closure at a news briefing in Uyo on Tuesday. Eno said the firm could not provide authorisation documents for mining titanium […]
The Lagos State’s Blue Line Railway will begin commercial operations on Monday, Sept. 4, according to the Lagos State Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, Managing Director of LAMATA announced this at a Press briefing and test-running of the train at Marina on Wednesday. Akinajo said the commercial operation of the transport system […]
Soldiers in Gabon have taken power and put President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, canceled presidential election results and dissolved state institutions. In a televised statement, a group of senior Gabonese officers said they seized power after Bongo, the incumbent president, was announced to be re-elected in a contested election. Gabon has thus become […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is irrevocably committed to pursuing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Four-Ds agenda for national development. Foreign Affairs Minister, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, gave this assurance when receiving the Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa in his office, on Tuesday, in Abuja. TheNewsZenith reports […]
From Our Correspondent in Gombe Farmers in Gombe State are now taking unusual steps to safeguard their crops due to rising cases of theft of farm produce. While some farmers now sleep on their farms to keep vigil, others pay between N30,000 and N50,000 monthly to vigilante groups to safeguard their farms, as they prepare […]
Vice President Kashim Shettima has challenged the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms to develop a robust roadmap that would transform the nation’s economy. Shettima posed the challenge when he hosted members of the Committee, led by its Chairman, Mr Taiwo Oyedele on Monday in Abuja. “The task before you is enormous. I […]
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has warned Nigerian students, against using hard drugs to enhance their academic performance. Mr Mohammad Ibrahim, the NDLEA Commander, Kwara Command, gave the advice while speaking with newsmen, on Tuesday, in Ilorin. Ibrahim said the hard drug does not help students perform well in any examination. He stressed […]