![[UPDATE]: NASS forwards harmonised Peace Corps Bill to Buhari for assent](https://dailycommerce.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Peace-Corps-600x400.jpg "[UPDATE]: NASS forwards harmonised Peace Corps Bill to Buhari for assent")
The National Assembly has forwarded the harmonised version of the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill after passage by both chambers -the Senate and the House of Representatives to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. It was gathered on Thursday that the transmission of the bill for Presidential assent was done by the Clerk to the National…
The Federal Government has appointed Prof. Mahmud Raji as the new Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the National Hospital, Abuja, NHA. Mr Raji is the doctor that saved Yusuf Buhari’s life during his 2017 accident in Abuja. In a statement issued by the hospital on Friday in Abuja said Mr Mahmud received his letter of…
The oil market is heading for a significant shortfall of around two million barrels per day at the end of the year as a result of a production cut by major producers, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) disclosed this on Thursday. In its monthly report for April, OPEC noted the unexpected decision…
In a significant breakthrough, troops of Operation Forest Sanity have intercepted a large quantity of ammunition being conveyed to bandits by a courier around Polewire in Birnin Gwari LGA. According to a report forwarded to the Kaduna State Government, the troops followed up on credible intelligence around gunrunning activities, and in the course of diligent…
Police on Thursday dismissed its three personnel attached to a Kano-based Hausa musician, Dauda Kahutu-Rarara, on the ground of high-handedness, unprofessional conduct, and misuse of firearms against them. The police authority said its men’s dismissal followed orderly room trial by the Force Provost Marshal, which found them guilty of offences bordering on discreditable conduct to wit…
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has disclosed that Yobe, Jigawa, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna states and the FCT are likely to observe below-average rainfall for the remaining months of the year. Director-General, NEMA, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, made this known during the presentation of the 2023 climate-related disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies in Abuja on Thursday….
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State, has petitioned the election tribunal to nullify the election of Abba Kabir Yusuf, arguing that he was not qualified to contest election in the first place. The APC explained that Yusuf was not a member of his party, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP as at the…
First Bank of Nigeria Ltd., has announced a phased corporate name change of its subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Sub-Saharan Africa. Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Marketing and Corporate Communications, FirstBank, said this in a statement in Lagos. The statement said that the name change was implemented to align the subsidiaries with the parent brand…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited said by virtue of the appointments of Mele Kyari and Umar Ajiya as the Group CEO and CFO respectively by President Muhammadu Buhari to directed the affairs of the new public oil company, they are entitled to their terminal benefits from the defunct Corporation. The NNPC Limited made…
Almost two million vulnerable Nigerians across the country have been impacted by projects implemented under the Federal Government’s National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) for the year 2022. A progress report presented at the NPRGS Steering Committee meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday also indicate that about 1.6 million smallholder farmers…
