President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a veteran broadcaster Balarabe Shehu Ilelah as the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who announced the appointment in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said Ilelah’s appointment is for a tenure of five years in the first […]
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died in a plane crash involving a Nigerian Air Force aircraft. The couple and six other military officers died near Kaduna airport where the Chief of Army Staff was billed to commission a project in one of the military formations in […]
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television with a fine of N5 million for breaching the broadcast code. The commission said it took the decision following a live interview the station had with the spokesperson for the Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful. The acting Director-General of NCC, […]
MTN customers in Nigeria will be unable to buy data on their phones effective 12 midnight till 6am on Sunday, the telecommunication company has said. This was contained in a notice by the mobile network operator on Friday night titled, ‘Service Upgrade Notice’.. Due to an upgrade, data purchase will […]
The Federal Government has approved the activation of new SIM card registration with mandatory National Identity Number linking, starting from April 19, 2021. This was disclosed in a statement signed on Thursday by the Technical Assistant (Information Technology) to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Femi Adeluyi. […]
The Lagos State Government has further eased restrictions on social/event centres across the State. The Director General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr. Lanre Mojola said that the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, after due consultation and deliberations with relevant stakeholders and MDA including The Lagos State Ministry […]
Barely forty eight hours after suspected terrorists bombed the head quarters of Imo State Police Command and Nigeria Correctional Service centre, in Owerri, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Usman Alkali Baba as acting Inspector General of police. He immediately replaces Mohammed […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have unveiled a new pricing model for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) short code services for transacting mobile banking services. In joint statement signed by Osita Nwanisobi, Head, Corporate Services, CBN and Dr. Ike Adinde, Director, Public […]
Nigerian Air Force, NAF201, with seven persons, including crew members on board, has crashed in Abuja. The aircraft, B350, departed Abuja en route Minna, Niger State on Sunday in the morning before it crashed, killing all the persons in it. According to Twitter handle of Sen. Hadi Sirika, Minister […]
A paradigm shift has finally been made by President Muhammadu Buhari as he has relieved the nation’s Service Chiefs of their portfolios and replacing them with new ones. In the new dispensation, Major-General Leo Irabor will serve as the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) while Major-General I. Attahiru is the […]