…Says any Nigerian can be FCT minister The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has described as irresponsible, absurd, and subversive, recent comments by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi on the person and office of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike. A press statement on Sunday by Dr. Ken Robinson, National Publicity Secretary PANDEF noted that it’s most unfortunate that at a time when every...

The Nigerian government has said that countries with strict travel policies for Nigerian nationals will henceforth face the same measures in Nigeria. “You charge me $100 for a visa, I will charge you $100 for a Nigerian visa,” Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said on Thursday. “If you give me a visa on arrival, I’ll give it to you. If you say the condition for me to enter your country today is that I...

President Bola Tinubu has rescinded his earlier appointment of Imam Ibrahim Kashim Imam as the chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA. The withdrawal of Imam’s appointment is with immediate effect, presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale said, via a statement, on Thursday. 24-year-old Imam was on October 13 appointed to head the FERMA board “for a renewable term of four years, in accordance with Section 2(3) of the FERMA Amendment...

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Salihu Abdulhamid Dembos as the director general, DG, of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA. Dembo’s appointment, which is with immediate effect, was announced by presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale late Thursday. Ngelale said President Tinubu also made an additional seven appointments for other agencies under the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation. The National Orientation Agency, NOA, and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, will be headed by Lanre...