President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has praised Nigerian-born KAYCEE MADU on his appointment as Minister of Justice and Solicitor General for the Government of Alberta, in Canada. MADU is also the Provincial Secretary and Keeper of the Great Seal of the Province of Alberta, and the first African-born provincial Minister in the history of Canada. President BUHARI described the…
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has appointment of retired Colonel MILLAND DIXION DIKIO as Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for the Niger Delta. DIKIO takes over from Professor CHARLES QUARKER DOKUBO as the Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme with effect from August 21, 2020. Presidential spokesman, GARBA SHEHU, confirmed the removal of Professor DOKUBO and the appointment…
Nigeria has added two hundred and ninety-six new cases of Covid-19, which takes the country’s total to fifty-three thousand, three hundred and seventeen. The new cases were recorded Thursday, August 27, 2020, in sixteen states and Abuja, with Plateau sustaining its lead on the daily list for the third day, with additional eighty-five cases. The Nigeria Centre…
The President of the African Development Bank, AKINWUMI ADESINA, has thanked the bank’s Board of Governors for his elected for a second term of five years. Speaking during the closing session of the ADB’s 55th Annual Meetings, ADESINA described his re-election by one hundred percent votes as historic. Meanwhile; President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has congratulated ADESINA on his…
Five hundred and eighty-four candidates have so far been screened from the eight local government areas in Lagos State, in the ongoing recruitment by the Nigeria Police Force. The figure is as of Thursday, August 27, 2020, and the number include ninety-two candidates from Epe Local Government Areas. The other local government areas where screening of candidates…
There has been a fire outbreak on a four-storey building housing a commercial bank on Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island in Lagos. Our correspondent CHUKWUEMEKA OBIOMA was at the scene of the incident in the morning hours of Wednesday, August 26, 2020, and reports that occupants of the building were immediately evacuated. Firefighters were called in and…