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President Bola Tinubu said on Saturday that his administration will prioritise skills, technology, and vocational education to create more job opportunities in the country. This was disclosed this at the 38th convocation ceremony of Bayero University Kano (BUK).     President Bola Tinubu said on Saturday that his administration will …

The President assured the Qatari investors that reforms are ongoing to remove all the past encumbrances around the Nigerian business environment.   President Bola Tinubu has urged Qatari investors not to offer a bribe to any Nigerian government officials, as he restated his administration’s determination to fight corruption to the …

Some residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have looted a warehouse belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency of Nigeria, NEMA, over the current economic hardship across the country. It was gathered that the warehouse, located in Karimo, Phase 3 region of the FCT, Abuja, was raided on Sunday …

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Doctor William Folohunso Kumuyi, has advised Christians against giving their offerings to the Church but rather give it to the poor and unemployed in their communities.   Kumuyi, who made the statement in a video that has gone viral, was heard …

TWELVE years after it received the Stephen Oronsaye Report, the Federal Government, on Monday, approved the implementation of some of its recommendations to reduce the cost of governance.   Consequently, 29 government agencies will be merged even as eight parastatals will be subsumed into eight other agencies. More so, four …

Hoodlums have attacked a BUA truck loaded with cartons of spaghetti at the Dogarawa axis of the Zaria-Kano expressway.     The incident, which occurred around 3:15 pm, saw the culprits making off with the entire cargo of spaghetti. According to an eyewitness, the driver had parked the truck by …

The Minister for Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has advised Nigerian women not to argue or fight back when having arguments with their husbands at home.   She issued the advice during a Conference of Commissioners of State Ministries of Women Affairs in Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja. Kennedy-Ohanenye emphasised that …

The Communications Commission has ruled out an extension of the February 28, 2024 deadline for the linkage of Subscriber Identity Module cards to National Identification Numbers.   As a result, telecommunication companies have been directed to bar 12 million lines which have not been linked to the owners’ NINs after …

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its nationwide protests, which were held in different states of the federation earlier on Tuesday.   The Labour, in a communiqué at the end of its National Executive Council meeting, said the objectives of the protest were achieved on the first day of …

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has declared he is “living proof” that Britain is not a racist country as he sought to douse the Islamophobia row, The Times reports.   He warned that all politicians had an obligation to be “careful” and not “unnecessarily inflame” tensions after the former deputy Tory …