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… Receives, pledges support for new Chancellor, Prof. James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse Tor TIV Edo State Government will support the University of Benin (UNIBEN) to get its encroached land back as it will inaugurate the Committee for the Protection of Private Property (PPP) next week, Governor Godwin Obaseki assured on Tuesday. Obaseki who gave the assurance while playing host to …

At the recently concluded United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria would cut its carbonemissions to net zero by 2060. To achieve that though, the country must curtail its pervasive gas flaring practice; and as yet, there are few signs that it has the political will to do so. Gas flaring is the burning of unwanted …

…as NABTEB Act amendment bill passes second reading A bill seeking a perpetual end to the dichotomy between the university degrees of Bachelor’s of Arts/Science, BA/BSc and the Higher National Diplomas, HNDs awarded by polytechnics have been passed into law in the House of Representatives. Titled “A Bill for an Act to Abolish and Prohibit Dichotomy and Discrimination between First …

The federal government will remove fuel subsidy and replace it with a monthly N5000 transport grant to poor Nigerians, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Speaking at the launch of the World Bank Nigeria Development Update (NDU) on Tuesday, the minister said the transport grant will target about 30 to 40 million Nigerians who make …

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, has said that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is mindful and concerned about the increased price of gas; vowing to take action to address the situation, especially as the Yuletide draws near. Sylva said this on Tuesday while addressing State House correspondents after a meeting with the President where he …

Malam Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has said that subsidy would have been eliminated in 2020 but certain factors prevented it. He, however, said that the law provides that by the end of February 2022, the nation should be out of the subsidy regime. He said this at the presentation …

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has dismissed the report on the Lekki toll gate violence, delivered by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution at the Lagos Court of Arbitration, as one riddled with “errors, inconsistencies, discrepancies, speculations, innuendoes, omissions and conclusions that are not supported by evidence”. The report, against claims by the federal government, concluded …

*seeks security beef up in Cross Rivers The House of Representatives at plenary on Tuesday, urged the Department of State Services (DSS), police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and other security agencies to quickly get to the root of all unresolved cases of kidnappings and other crimes across the country. The lower chamber also mandated its relevant committees …

The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared war against methamphetamine consumers in the South-East and its environs. Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement made available to our correspondent in Awka, the Anambra State capital. Describing youth consumption of the drug known as Mkpurummiri in local parlance as an ugly …

Yobe Government says it will deduct 10 per cent of November basic salaries of its civil servants as their contributions to the current efforts to revive the education sector in the state. Muhammad Lamin, the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture made this known at a press briefing on Monday in Damaturu. Mr Lamin said that the decision was taken …