Two Chinese companies have held a groundbreaking ceremony to start the construction of a subsea pipeline installation for Dangote Oil Refining Company Limited in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub. Top officials of the Nigerian Dangote’s Group, Xie Xianju, Deputy General Manager of China Harbor Engineering Co (Nigeria) and Zhang Qing, General Manager of China’s Offshore Oil
The Kaduna State Government has given the 21,000 teachers who did not pass the recent competence test another opportunity for consideration saying they can reapply for jobs in its ongoing recruitment exercise. About 12,000 of the sacked teachers were said to have reapplied while the remaining are yet to do so. Governor Nasir El-Rufai while
The Federal Government has threatened to stop the salaries of some Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) or individual employees if they fail to comply with the Human Resource Module of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF) Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita issued a circular condemning
NIGERIA’S minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, on Thursday lamented that it’s a shame that Nigeria cannot refine its crude oil after 40 years of activities in the downstream. Kachikwu said this on Thursday when he appeared before the senate committee on petroleum (downstream). He said the ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai said the days of the rump of Boko Haram terrorists are numbered, in spite of occasional attacks of Nigerian targets. Buratai gave the assurance while addressing troops of the 8 Division at Monguno, headquarters of Monguno Local Government Area of Borno. He, therefore, charged the troops to
The notorious kidnapper, Mr. Don Wani, who masterminded the killing of 23 persons in Omoku in Rivers state, has been killed. Wani, a suspected militant leader, was confirmed killed in a combined operation by the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Army at a border town between Rivers and Imo. A source said the
Presidency Muhammadu Buhari is yet to decide on whether to run in the 2019 election, Minister of Communications Barrister Adebayo Shittu revealed. Shittu who is also the national chairman of the Board of Trustees Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group said this after visiting President Buhari at the Aso Villa. Amon other briefings, he came to
President Buhari has commisoned the two locomotives and 10 executive passenger coaches procured by the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to be deployed on the Abuja-Kaduna train service. The president who commisoned the rolling stocks at about 10:50am today pledged that all Economic zones across the country and the states capital will be linked to railway
A Federal Government’s delegation has arrived Tripoli to begin mass evacuation of Nigerians stranded in the North African country. The spokesman of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Sani Datti disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He said the delegation is led by the Minister of Foreign Minister Affairs Geoffrey Onyema and comprising of the
THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has declared that it will support any party that is committed to restructuring in the 2019 general election. In a statement on Wednesday, Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, said it is clear that the All Progressives Congress (APC) government is not “keen on restructuring”. Odumakin said any political party that is