The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the Warri-Itakpe rail service after a train derailed at kilometre 30 Ajaokuta-Itakpe section of the track. One hundred and forty-eight passengers and 30 crew were in the train which derailed on Sunday inside the Kogi forest. There was no fatality or casualty, but passengers said they were stranded […]
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says it has, since 2020, processed no fewer than 148,000 passports and awaiting collection nationwide. Anthony Akuneme, the Spokesman for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), said this in Abuja on Saturday. “We have precisely 148,000 uncollected passports nationwide from different locations.” According to NIS statistics, Lagos State topped the list […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it is responding to reports of diphtheria cases in Lagos and Kano States. The Director-General of the centre, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, announced this in a statement on Friday. Adetifa said the centre is also monitoring the situation in Osun and Yobe states. He said that […]
The Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service says it intercepted hard drugs and military/police hardware at the cargo section of the airport worth N13.8 billion. Sambo Dangaladima, the Customs Area Controller, announced this while interacting with journalists at the command in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday. Dangaladima said his men intercepted 162 cartons […]
The Federal Government has earmarked N3.25 billion for the first phase of three industrial parks being planned across the country. Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammad Haruna, announced this when he visited the Commandant of the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology (NAFIT) in Kaduna on […]
A delegation of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria NAHCON has arrived in Saudi Arabia for pre-agreement documentation for the 2023 hajj. The commission’s Assistant Director of Information and Publications, Mousa Ubandawaki, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. The team is expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), a pre-agreement […]
By Our Correspondent Moddibo Tukur, CEO of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has banned cash withdrawals for all federal and states accounts, effective March 1. Tukur told newsmen, on Thursday, in Abuja that it was necessary to impose the ban to curb the rate at which monies are withdrawn from public accounts. According […]
The Debt Management Office (DMO) says the alarm created around the country’s projected public debt by a segment of the media was unnecessary. The Director-General, Mrs Patience Oniha, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Oniha was reacting to reports by a segment of the media that next government would inherit N77 trillion […]
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Thursday, said it lost four men to smugglers in 2022 and arrested 176 suspected smugglers. The Acting Controller of the unit, Deputy Comptroller Hussein Ejibunu, announced this at a news conference in Lagos. In the year under review, Ejibunu said the unit […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a N819.5 billion Supplementary Appropriation Bill for 2023 to the National Assembly. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, read the content of the cover letter on the bill to members on Wednesday. Buhari said the additional demand for the amount for next year was due to the […]