Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu says FG is set to rejig N-Power Scheme Dr. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, says plans are underway to rejig the N-Power scheme to accommodate more people and ensure prompt payment of beneficiaries’ stipends. Edu disclosed …

President Tinubu President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday to attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, India, on the special invitation of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. A statement issued by Presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said on the sidelines of the Summit, the President would participate …

DIRISU YAKUBU examines some of the ministers that will determine the performance of President Bola Tinubu in the next four years It is a difficult time to be a Nigerian. Living in a Hobbesian fictional world, where everything seems nasty, brutish and short, particularly in the turbulent eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s …

National Chairman, APC, Abdullahi Ganduje The National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has tasked the Kogi State electorate to give the party nothing less than 99 per cent support and victory votes in the state’s forthcoming November 11 governorship election. Ganduje gave the charge on Saturday while addressing …

Elizabeth Macleod, Police Advisor, Lake Chad Basin Support Framework of the United Kingdom High Commission in Nigeria and the Police Service Commission Chairman, Solomon Arase in Abuja. The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) has urged President Bola Tinubu to allow the Nigeria Police Force and not the military …

R-L: Bola Tinubu and Mele Kyari Africa’s biggest oil producer will likely pocket over $4.43bn in September as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd begins pumping 1.67 million barrels of crude oil into the market. Nigeria, which is the continent’s top oil producer recorded an average daily oil production of …

FILE: Travellers The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has urged Nigerians not to accept food items not packed by them when travelling, as the agency intercepted narcotics concealed in packs of semovita and dry pepper. This was contained in a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, released on his …

Leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Shettima Yerima. President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, speaks to JUWE OLUWAFEMI and GODWIN ISENYO, about expectations from the President Bola Tinubu administration and the need for government officials to stop making more demands to the detriment of the masses, among …

FCT suspected vandals. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, FCT Command, has arrested three suspected vandals and cable thieves for unlawful possession of communication cables. It would be recalled that on August 28, 2023, the NSCDC nabbed and paraded 20 suspects for allegedly stealing manholes and vandalising government property …

Pastor Enoch Adeboye The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has predicted the possibility of Naira bouncing back and this time greater than the United States dollar. Our correspondent reports that based on findings in the black market buying rate of the dollar is about …