Nigeria To Replace National Identity Card With Digital Number – FG
The federal government has given an insight into the transfer of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy said with the development, the concept of Digital Number would be prioritized to replace the National Identity Card. He made the disclosure in an interview with PRNigeria’s Economic...
Abia Professionals Set To Launch 50-bed Ultra-Modern Isolation Centre Sunday
A group of Abia indigenes under the aegis of Concerned Abia Professionals has concluded plans to commission ‘Abia Care Centre’, a 50-bed ultra-modern isolation centre with a functional molecular laboratory fully built and equipped by the group. This was contained in a statement the CAP made available to journalists on Tuesday, and signed by one of its Project Implementation Committee...
Mahmood Yakubu Sworn In As INEC Chairman, Says Elections Are Getting Better
Professor Mahmood Yakubu was on Wednesday sworn in for a second term as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and believes elections in the country are getting better. “We have clearly demonstrated in recent elections that elections are getting better and better and elections will continue to get better and better,” he said after the swearing-in ceremony...
Ebem Ohafia Thanksgiving Day: Paramount Ruler, Ezie Kalu Ukoha Preaches Love, Unity (Photos, Video)
The Paramount Ruler of Ebem Ancient Kingdom, in Ohafia local government area of Abia State, HRH, Ezie Ogo Ukoha Kalu Ukoha has urged the people of the community to love one another and live in unity, saying this is the only way the community can move forward. The Royal Father spoke on Friday at the 2022 annual Ebem thanksgiving day...
NBC Grants TV Broadcast Licence To NYSC
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has granted an operational licence to the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to begin Direct Satellite Broadcasting (BSB); as well as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The NYSC Director-General, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, received the broadcast licence from his NBC counterpart, Mallam Balarabe Ilela, in Abuja on Wednesday. With the approval, Ilela said the Federal Government would give more...
Private Car Ban: School Not A Place For Students To Exhibit Expensive Lifestyle, Sir Udensi Hails ABSU
Security expert, Sir Chikwe Udensi has commended the management of Abia State University, ABSU Uturu for its decision to ban the use of private cars in campus among students, saying such will reduce unbridled desire by other students to join the league of car owners through illicit means. While insisting that illegitimate means of wealth acquisition has dominated the minds...
Police Sergeant Who Died In Auto Crash Laid To Rest Amidst Tears In Abia (Photos, Video)
An Abia born police sergeant, Nkwachukwu Samuel Okengwu who died in a ghastly road accident last month was on Thursday laid to rest at his home town Isingwu umu North Local Government Area of the stat...
Presidency Commends Abia Govt. On Handling Of Cattle Market Incident
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Abia State government for the swift response in handling the sad incident that happened on Tuesday night at the new Cattle Market, in Ukwa Local Government Area of the state. Buhari in a statement signed by his Spokesman, Garba Shehu, appealed for calm even as he sympathized with the victims. The President further condemned the...
Court Sentences Man To Two Years Imprisonment For Vandalizing EEDC Property
A 24-year-old-man, identified as Idris Ibrahiim has been sentenced to two (2) years imprisonment. He was jailed by his Worship, Ojinnaka C of a Magistrate Court, sitting in Imo State, for vandalizing a distribution substation belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC), situated at Imo Housing, World Bank Estate, Owerri, Imo State and stealing electrical armoured cable. The offence is...
Army Reacts To Viral Video Of Soldier ‘Abandoned’ By Colleagues During Operation
The Nigerian Army has accused the soldier purportedly abandoned by his colleagues in a viral video of cowardice. It said it was the soldier who absconded during operation with his colleagues and not the other way round. The Director Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, noted the video was a misrepresentation of what transpired between the soldier...
