Month: July 2025

Minister of Interior Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has disclosed that the recently launched electronic visa (e-visa) regime has achieved significant success, processing over 14,000 applications within its first six weeks. Dr Tunji-Ojo stated this on Monday at a stakeholder sensitisation workshop on major immigration innovations at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) headquarters in Abuja. He further […]

The African Icon Awards has proudly unveiled Barrister Omowumi Ogunrotimi as the keynote speaker for its highly anticipated 10th anniversary celebration, which will take place on July 26th, 2025, in Abuja. Omowumi, a distinguished Nigerian legal practitioner and the founder of Gender Mobile Initiative, has garnered acclaim for her extensive advocacy work spanning over 50 […]

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has expressed deep sorrow over the death of Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, an elder statesman, philanthropist, and business icon. It describes his passing as a monumental loss to Nigeria. In a statement issued by the forum’s spokesperson, Professor Abubakar Jika Jiddere, the NEF praised Dantata as a pillar of Nigeria’s […]

The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has applauded the reconciliation between the suspended Rivers State governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory,  Nyesom Wike, describing it as a vital step towards achieving political stability and lasting peace in the state. Speaking […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has officially awarded Julius Berger Nigeria PLC the long-awaited Oil and Gas Museum and Research Centre construction in Otuabagi, Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State. The handover showed that all preparations and agreements with key stakeholders had been completed, allowing construction work to begin at the […]

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has urged the public to avoid its suspended members. The national publicity secretary, SDP, Araba Rufus Aiyenigba, in a statement released to newsmen yesterday in Abuja, disclosed that the National Working Committee (NWC) had approved the suspension of Alhaji Shehu Musa Gaba, Mr Clarkson Nnadi, and Mr. Ogbonna Uchechukwu over […]

The federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, within the next five years, through the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), as Nigeria races toward meeting the 2030 global elimination target. Scientists have said that so far, about 37 million Nigerians have been treated with ivermectin, the drug […]

The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee overseeing Rivers has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the state’s Sole Administration, Vice Admiral Ibok-Eke Ibas (Rtd), to submit a breakdown of significant items in the N1.48 trillion 2025 budget. The committee’s chairman, Hon. Julius Ihonvbere (APC-Edo), issued the ultimatum at Monday’s budget defence session in Abuja. Ihonvbere said […]

A pressure group, the Coalition for the Defence of Truth, has urged the Federal Ministry of Education to act swiftly to prevent a plot aimed at thwarting the appointment of a substantive vice-chancellor for Yakubu Gowon University, formerly known as the University of Abuja, or risk the institution facing serious succession issues. In a press […]

Not too long ago, the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede took a trip to Bayelsa State where he commissioned the newly built headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC in Yenagoa, the state capital and rounded off in Otuokpoti, Ogbia Local Government Area of the state, […]