Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has addressed circulating reports claiming that Nigerian pilgrims are currently in Israel for pilgrimage activities. The Executive Secretary, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, clarified that no Nigerian Christian pilgrims are in Israel, as the Commission’s 2024 Main Pilgrimage exercise to Israel and…
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Chidimma Uchegbu – Uchegbu The Minister of Foreign Affairs Nigeria, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar on Monday said that Nigeria is set to host the 2025 West Africa Economic Summit ( WAES) scheduled for 20 and 21 June, 2025 in Abuja. The Minister announced this at the Pre-WAES Media Parley with…
Chidimma Uchegbu -Abuja As part of efforts to actualize the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Federal Government, the Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, and Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, have laid the foundation for the Gombe Ultra-Modern Abattoir. The facility is a key component of the Gombe…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve data and information sharing aims to boost revenue remittances to the Fund and promote transparency in the extractive sector. Speaking at the MoU signing in…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has condemned the recent killings in Benue State, describing them as inhuman and callous. According to the press statement released to the newsmen in Abuja by the Deputy Director and Head Media and…
By Emmanuel Ado The Sokoto State industrial landscape, which presently looks more like a Sahara desert, is totally unacceptable to Governor Ahmad Aliyu because it is a far cry from what it use to be in the 1980’s up to the late 1990’s, when Sokoto state could confidently boast of…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Abuja and Lagos Global Shapers Hubs—youth initiatives of the World Economic Forum—successfully hosted the West Africa Youth Futures Roundtable on Friday, June 13, 2025. The event, held at the Rotunda Hall of the Ministry and streamed virtually…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja Minister, Federal Ministry of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, and the German International Cooperation (GIZ) have pledged to establish grazing facilities in rural-based Local Government Areas of the country. The Minister stated this when a delegation led by the First Secretary and Head of Cooperation,Embassy of…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Special Envoy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the West Africa Economic Summit (WAES), and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, was received in audience by the President of Guinea Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, during which the Envoy delivered the Special Invitation…
Chidimma Uchegbu A total of 64,000 candidates from Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Togo have participated in the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) for admission into Federal Government Colleges. Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, expressed satisfaction with the smooth conduct of the examination, noting that it started…