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Kwara govt approves 2024, 2025 promotion backlogs for civil servants, parastatals
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (241+ words) The Kwara State Government has approved the implementation of backlog promotions for civil servants and public sector employees, with financial benefits officially taking effect from September 1, 2026. The approval covers the 2025 promotion exercise for workers within the mainstream state civil service,…...
FG woos Chinese investors for power, industrial projects
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (491+ words) The move followed a series of high-level engagements between the Federal Government and major Chinese engineering companies and financial institutions in Beijing, as part of the ongoing Nigeria-China power sector mission. The engagements were led on behalf of the Federal…...
2027 polls: PDP pulls massive crowd at Ogun governorship campaign flag-off
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1614+ words) Thousands of ardent supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party and indigenes of Ogun State, on Wednesday, stormed Ake Palace Pavilion in Abeokuta as the party officially flagged-off its campaigns for the 2027 governorship election. As early as 10am, party faithful dressed in…...
Flood sweeps away school boy, girl in Abuja, Abia
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1164+ words) A 13-year-old Junior Secondary School student of Ihyau El-Burhan Academy, Phase 3, Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Alhassan Jamil, was swept away by flood while on his way to school on Wednesday. The boy’s father, Jamil Maikasuwa, who…...
Remi Tinubu takes women empowerment drive to Ebonyi
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (330+ words) Wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, has empowered 500 indigent and vulnerable women in Ebonyi State with business support equipment, including deep freezers, gas cookers with ovens, power generators and industrial grinding machines. The empowerment programme, held in Abakaliki on Thursday,…...
Reps probe NNPCL, oil firms over N432bn NMDPRA debt
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (497+ words) The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has opened an investigation into outstanding regulatory debts owed to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and oil companies, with liabilities under review put…...
Tinubu’s FAAC boom scam hasn't made Nigerians richer – Atiku alleges
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (282+ words) Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said President Bola Tinubu’s Federation Account Allocation Committee boom is a scam because it has not added value to Nigerians. Atiku made this disclosure in a statement by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, which was…...
Why I slit my mother's throat, buried her in shallow grave -- Osun man reveals
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (282+ words) The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday said it had arrested one Taye Kasali, living in Bode-Osi, Osun State, in connection with the alleged murder of his mother, Kudirat Kasali. After allegedly perpetrating the act, Kasali subsequently buried the remains…...
Political, religious leaders storm Ibadan as Obasanjo, Makinde, Oyedepo celebrate Archbishop Wale Oke at 70
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (714+ words) It was an unprecedented gathering of the nation’s political, religious, and traditional elite in Ibadan on Tuesday, as eminent Nigerians converged to celebrate the 70th birthday of the National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Archbishop Francis Wale Oke. The…...
Reps investigate NNPCL, oil firms over N432bn NMDPRA debt
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (497+ words) The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has opened an investigation into outstanding regulatory debts owed to the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and oil companies, with liabilities under review put…...