Eighty-three million Nigerians are set to be covered as President Muhammadu Buhari signed the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022 into law. This is according to a statement released by presidential aide Garba Shehu on Thursday. He said the bill repeals “the National Health Insurance Scheme Act, Cap N42, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arrested the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Nsima Ekere for alleged diversion of funds to the tune of N47 billion through registered contractors of the agency. This is according to the Commission’s spokesperson Wilson Uwajaren who confirmed it to newsmen. The…
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, has received the report of the State Judicial Welfare Review Committee and pledged to announce a new salary template for the state’s judicial officers within a week. Speaking at the Conference Hall of the Governor’s Office, Calabar, where the report…
The Supreme Court has granted Rivers State’s request to join in President Muhammadu Buhari’s suit against Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act, 2022. Justice Muhammad Dattijo adjourned the matter following the concession by Buhari’s lawyer Lateef Fagbemi that the speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly and Attorney General, Rivers State, be joined as parties….
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has restated the need to designate gas as a transition fuel in the global net-zero emissions target by 2060, even as he observes that Africa is now winning that argument. Prof Osinbajo spoke while receiving a delegation of Executive Directors of the African Development Bank, AfDB, led by the Dean…
Federal government has approved N169 billion in private sector investments for road infrastructure through the government’s Tax Credit Programme. The minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), disclosed this to State House correspondents yesterday after the federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. According to him, the…
President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olumide Akpata on Thursday reacted to a recent description of the NBA as a paper tiger by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike. The Rivers state governor who is also a presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had at a book launch in honour of recently…
The Commonwealth Education Trust works across the Commonwealth countries to reach teachers in underserved areas through digital platforms which provide professional development opportunities. The organisation began experimenting though our partnership with Coursera to provide teacher training MOOCs (massive open online courses), but we have since moved on from this model. What our team has come…
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Nigeria would deploy more investments aimed at the provision of infrastructure and facilities for safe, secure, environmentally friendly and sustainable civil aviation. This is just as Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika, justified the current aviation fuel scarcity in the country, saying the situation was not peculiar to Nigeria alone….
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, over a shady contract worth N240m awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission. Etteh, it was learnt, was at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Tuesday and had yet to be released as of 9pm. The…