Former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Ibrahim Pantami has facilitated the payment of N50 million ransom for the six sisters abducted in Abuja. This is coming after Najeebah one of the six sisters abducted was killed by their abductors at the weekend. TheFact Daily gathered that the late Najeebah,...
A Niger Delta militant group, ‘The Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters’, has threatened to cripple the economy by launching attacks in major cities across the country, targeting infrastructure in the nation's capital, Abuja, and her commercial hub, Lagos. The threat was issued in a video posted earlier today by Africa Independent...
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said, it has concluded arrangements to digitalise and automate it’s audit data collection process from December 2021. Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji disclosed this at the launch of the global Opening Extractives programme in Abuja. TheFact Nigeria gathered that the NEITI...
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Niger Delta Development (MNDD), Dr. Shuiab Belgore has said, the collaboration between the Ministry and Keneva Consult Ltd is geared towards enhancing service delivery and creating public awareness that would help to improve economic activities within the Niger Delta Region. Dr. Belgore made this known...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in conjunction with the Federal Road Safety Corps and other stakeholders has commenced a special safety campaign to reduce road crashes and assist accident victims during the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. Tagged “Safe Eid-El-Kabir”, the campaign commenced on Sunday and will continue throughout the week. A statement by Manzo...
By Stella Enenche, Abuja The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), and the International Rescue Committee (IRC),has disclosed plans to strengthen their partnership as the nation approaches rainy season. The Director General, NiMet, Professor Charles Anosike, while receiving the Governance Coordinator of IRC, Mrs Dorcas David and her team, on Friday said the...
Academic Staff of the Kaduna State University have suspended their six-month old strike. Registrar of the University, Samuel Manshop called off the strike in a circular issued on Monday, September 5, 2022. The circular read in part: "this is to convey the directive of the Governing Council that all Academic Staff...
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has lamented the death of the pioneer Managing Director of the Corporation, Chief Festus Remi Ayodele Marinho. A press release by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that Chief Marinho,...
Just a few months ago, the man set to be Senegal's next president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was sitting in a prison cell, a relatively unknown figure outside his opposition party Pastef. Everything changed for him when the party's firebrand leader, Ousmane Sonko, who was also detained, was charged with insurrection...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan felicitates with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on the auspicious occasion of his 58th birthday on 25th June, 2020. Lawan congratulates him on his exemplary representation of his constituency and passionate service to Nigeria as a whole at...