Category: Development

Boko Haram: Normalcy returns to Michika

Normalcy has returned to Michika town in Adamawa following a failed night attack on the community by Boko Haram insurgents who were repelled by the military. The News...

2-year-old boy dies in well in Kano

Tragedy befell a family at Yar’akwa Balangu Quarters, Tarauni Local Government Area, Kano State, on Monday evening, when their two year-old son, Abdullahi Jibril, fell...

2, 070 small scale business owners get N103.5m grants – DG SMEDAN

The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) has earmarked N103.5 million as grants for 2,070 small scale business owners in Sokoto State. The...

FG begins skills acquisition for budding entrepreneurs in Southwest

PREMIER Hub Innovation Centre, the Southwest Coordinator of National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), has urged budding entrepreneurs to key into the programme...

Internet

Internet users hit 113.8m in January—NCC

Internet users in Nigeria increased marginally to more than 113.8 million in January 2018, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said. The NCC made this known on...

NASS

PIB Passage: Stakeholders task incoming NASS on expedition

Some stakeholders in the oil and gas industry have tasked the incoming 9th National Assembly to speedily pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) for the president’s...

Okorocha

Court dismisses Okorocha’s N1.25bn damages suit against IGP, EFCC

The Federal High Court sitting in Jos, on Thursday threw out a N1.25 billion damages suit filed by Gov. Rochas Okorocha, against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)...

Pictures: Alake, Amaechi, Amosun, Soyinka at the Lagos/Ibadan rail line test run

Alake: New Lagos-Ibadan gauge rail line‘ll boost our economy

The Alake of Egbaland, Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo on Friday said the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge rail line would improve the economy of Egbaland. The monarch said this...

Osinbajo, Alake of Egbaland makes maiden journey on Lagos/Abeokuta rail line

  The Alake of Egbaland is to make history for the second time in the history of railway transportation system in Nigeria. This is because Oba Adedotun Aremu...