A coalition of timber dealers, comprising the Ifesowapo Timber Contractors Association, Ijaw Timber Contractors Association, Towing Vessels Association of Nigeria, Timber Sawyers Association of Nigeria, and Timber Pullers Association of Nigeria, has called on Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to ensure comprehensive stakeholder involvement in managing timber operations before proceeding with any plans regarding the potential eviction of the Okobaba Timber Business.
Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation, has urged the ministry's workers’ unions to postpone their planned strike and nationwide protests set to begin on August 21, 2024.
The call for action, announced on Thursday, is detailed in a letter dated August 14, 2024, titled “Save Aviation From Collapse,” which highlights concerns over the 50 percent deductions from the internally generated revenue of key aviation agencies.
On Thursday, Prof. Sani Lawan, Chairman of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC), clarified that he is not affiliated with any political party in the state.
Speaking at a stakeholder meeting where he presented the election guidelines and timetables for the upcoming Local Government elections scheduled for November 30, 2024, Prof. Lawan addressed allegations about his party affiliation.
Nigerian businessman and socialite, Obi Cubana, has shared that no one in his family has lived beyond the age of 80. Cubana revealed that despite his late mother’s efforts, she passed away at 79 without breaking the family’s generational jinx.
In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwu, Cubana explained that his family held an extravagant funeral for his mother as a tribute to her near-success in overcoming the curse.
It was an occasion that looks to recognize and celebrate academic excellence over trendy accomplishments, as an alumnus of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Dr Godwin Oziele handed out the sum of fifty thousand naira each as educational scholarship to ten indigent students of the institution.
Concern Medics Foundation (CMF), a group of Nigerian doctors based abroad, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Hospital for Women and Children in Abuja to combat brain drain in Nigeria.
The agreement was signed by Professor Raji Mahmoud, Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital, and Dr. Sadiya Gumi, Chairperson of CMF.
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) has rejected social media claims suggesting that the Local Government Council elections, set for October 5, 2024, have been postponed.
RSIEC Chairman, Retired Justice Adolphus Enebeli, asserted that these claims are false and without merit.
The chairman of the Africa Investment and Trade Summit and Exhibition (AITE), Tunde MacAlabi, has commended the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, for fighting relentlessly for Nigeria’s interests in aviation since his appointment a year ago.
“If most of Keyamo’s predecessors had been committed to national interests as the present aviation minister, the Nigerian aviation sector would have been as competitive as that of any of the developed nations”, MacAlabi asserted in a statement in Lagos today.
Former President Donald Trump appeared in a lengthy interview with tech billionaire Elon Musk on X on Monday. According to Musk, the combined views of the interview and related discussions across various accounts have reached one billion.
Musk tweeted: "Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion."
In light of the ongoing crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State, former Governor Samuel Ortom has urged his supporters to lay down their differences.
Recent clashes have occurred between Ortom’s supporters and those backing Senator Gabriel Suswam over control of the party’s structure, leading to factional splits and multiple suspensions within the party.
