President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja lauded the entrepreneurial spirit and doggedness of the President of Dangote Industries Limited (DI.L), Aliko Dangote and urged Nigerians in business to emulate this iconic figure, to enable the country witness real economic growth and development. While receiving the President of DIL and...
Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), in charge of Zone 16 Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, and erstwhile Force spokesperson, AIG Donald Ngorngor Awunah, is dead. This was disclosed in a press release by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi earlier today. TheFact Nigeria gathers that Awunah passed away in the early...
President Buhari has assented to the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation ("NDIC") Bill, the Arbitration and Mediation Bill, and three other Bills, passed by the National Assembly, in furtherance of the provisions of Section 58 of the Constitution and pursuant to the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the...
President Bola Tinubu celebrates his friend and ally, former President Muhammadu Buhari, an icon of truth, justice, and patriotism on his 81st birthday. Chief Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement on Saturday said, the President extols the peerless leadership credentials and...
By Anne Osemekeh, Abuja The Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has refuted a report by Vanguard newspapers that it failed to prosecute those it indicted in its yearly reports on constituency projects across the country. The Commission in a statement issued on Saturday reaffirmed its robust efforts...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is collaborating with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and other relevant downstream and upstream stakeholders in the petroleum industry to curb...
The Court of Appeal, Yola Division, Adamawa State has affirmed the conviction of Ibrahim Mohammed Umar, a former electoral officer with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Yola South Local Government Area. Umar and his accomplice had earlier been convicted of a three count charge by an Adamawa State...
The Comptroller of the Kirikiri Female Prisons, Lagos, Mrs. Lizzie Ekpendu, has been redeployed following the uproar generated over the beauty pageant conducted in the facility where murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, emerged as Miss Cell 2022. This was confirmed earlier today by a source within the facility who pleaded anonymity...
The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of four persons as a three-storey building caved in on Ibadan Street, in the Ebute Metta area of the state late Sunday. No fewer than 23 persons including children were said to have been rescued alive. The occupants were said to be...
Some stakeholders in the health and education sectors have lamented the poor state of Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) and Schools in Communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. They were brought together by the Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), a non-governmental organisation in Abuja, to brainstorm on possible...