The Anambra State Federal Secretariat built and completed by the Federal Government in Awka has been commissioned today, by the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige. The Secretariat named after Engr. Ebere Ofunneamaka Okeke, who was Nigeria’s first civil engineer and the first female Head of Service of the Federation, is now open for use by federal government Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Anambra State. During the commissioning of the secretariat, the Nnewi born Engr....
President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned and opened the Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta States for public use. President Buhari commissioned the project named after him virtually six days to the end of his administration. The bridge is one of the legacy projects of the Buhari administration, hoped to decongest the existing Niger bridge and connect South-East with the rest of the country and as well boost economic activities of Southern region. The main...
Nigerian musician Seun Kuti has been released on bail after being arrested and incarcerated for a week. The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, gave an order for the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to arrest the singer after a viral video showed him at the Third Mainland Bridge, in Lagos, shouting at, and hitting a police officer. Following the reactions that trailed the video, Kuti said that the policeman “tried to kill me and...
Africa’s biggest oil refinery and the world’s biggest single-train facility has been launched in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, amid expectations that Nigeria will cease importing refined petroleum products once the company starts operation. The refinery built by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the President of Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man, was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 22, 2023. The inauguration of the Dangote refinery was attended by many dignitaries in and outside Nigeria, including...
South East/Igbo APC Progressives Roundtable, SIAPRO, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge, which was commissioned on Tuesday. SIAPRO, in a statement jointly signed by its Director General, Dr Uche Diala; National Secretary, Mr Emmanuel Molokwu; and the National Publicity Secretary, Mr Charles Kaye Okoye, described the Bridge as the “biggest and most significant singular infrastructural project in the Eastern region since after the civil war.” The group recalled...
…Second Niger Bridge is named after Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, commissioned eight projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing across the country. The projects which consist of three major bridges, three federal secretariats, a road and a new headquarters are part of the current “administration’s determination to upgrade and expand the nation’s stock of infrastructure”, according to Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the President on media and publicity. The federal...
Uncertainty over Bola Tinubu’s inauguration on Monday, May 29 looms as the Supreme Court has fixed Friday, May 26 to deliver its judgment in a suit seeking the nullification of the President-elect and the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima’s candidature in the 2023 presidential election. The suit was filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on July 28, 2022. The party challenged the validity of the Tinubu/Shettima ticket for the February 25, 2023, presidential election because...
United States President Joe Biden has released a list of officials to represent him at the upcoming inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, on Monday, May 29. This is according to a press release by the White House on Monday. The nine-member presidential delegation are as follows: Honorable Marcia L. Fudge, secretary of the United States department of housing and urban development; Mr. David Greene, Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy, Abuja; The Honorable Sydney Kamlager-Dove,...
The five-day warning strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has been suspended. Recall that the association had, on April 29, given the government a two-week ultimatum for failure for which it would proceed on strike. Orji Emeka Innocent, President, of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), who announced the suspension last night said members would resume work by 8 am today (Monday). The association embarked on the strike last...
Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abuja, and the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Muhammad Samaila Mera, have urged the incoming government under Bola Ahmad Tinubu to continue with the Housing and Population Census. The religious leaders spoke during a round table engagement with traditional and interfaith leaders in Abuja on improving human capital development through girl-child education. According to Onaiyekan: “Census should be a regular thing and should be done properly. The...
