In the past six months, Nigerians have witnessed an uncontrolled increase in the price of cement, a key material in the construction industry. TEMILOLUWA O’PETERS writes on the impact on building projects Mid-April 2020, Mr Idowu Adesina, an accountant, started the expansion of his family house to a two-storey building. Trying to take advantage of…
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu has said that the the timetable for the 2023 general elections will be release after the Anambra governorship election scheduled for November 6. Yakubu disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at a public hearing on the electoral act amendment bill. The INEC Chairman also…
The sum of N1.63 billion has been approved by federal government for poultry farming in Borno, Plateau, Yobe and Zamfara states. The minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouk, disclosed this at the end of the 43rd virtual federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on…
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has accused the President, Muhammadu Buhari of working for the Fulani ethnic group to take over Nigeria. The governor spoke on Tuesday while condemning the killing in parts of Benue state allegedly by herdsmen. According to Ortom, no fewer than 70 people have been killed in the last two weeks…
Another video of the remaining 29 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Kaduna has surface on the social media. On March 11, 2021, bandits invaded the school at about 11:30pm and abducted 39 students. Weeks after the abduction, 10 of the students were released following the payment of N17 million, according…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended Channels Television for violating the broadcast code. The station was also fined N5 million for the offence. The NBC, in a letter signed by its Acting Director-General of the NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba and addressed to the Managing Director of Channels Television, said on April 25, 2021 at…
