Vice President Kashim Shettima’s trip to Samoa to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Summit has been cancelled due to a foreign object that hits his plane during a stopover at JFK Airport in New York causing damage to the cockpit windshield.
A press statement issued by Sidi Ali, Hakama (Mrs.) CBN Ag. Director, of Corporate Communications late on Thursday said no deadline is fixed for the circulation of old naira notes directing all its branches to continue to issue and accept all denominations of Nigerian banknotes, old and re-designed.
Katsina Football Academy has formed a partnership with Paris-based Bondy Academy to give Katsina local footballers additional opportunities to play overseas.
The presidency announced on Wednesday that the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports development are scrapped for the new ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions and the National Sports Commission will take over the role of the Ministry of Sports.
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, has issued a public notice on fraudulent recruitment schemes that is prevalent in the country warning that it is not currently conducting any recruitment exercises and has not engaged any agencies to do so on its behalf.
President Bola Tinubu has announced the movement of 10 ministers to different ministries in a press statement issued by the Presidency on Wednesday, the new appointment came amid the sacking of five ministers and reshuffling of his cabinet.
Alhaji Ibrahim, explained that the (NDHS) survey indicates that only 23% of infants in Katsina State are exclusively breastfed for the first six months. While 2023 SMART survey indicates stunting rate of 44.2%, wasting 9.4% and underweight 30.2%. These data are among the worst in the country.
The katsina state government has ordered the immediate closure of all private health training Institutions in the state.
Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, speaking at an event in Bauchi on Sunday said, 10% of the nation’s population who should be in school are not receiving any formal education, making them vulnerable to recruitment by extremist groups such as Boko Haram and bandits in the future.
Demonstrators assembled to honour the memory of those who lost their lives during the #EndSARS protests against police brutality in October 2020 at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos on Sunday but Lagos State Police Commissioner, Olanrewaju Ishola, said the protesters did not write, seeking police clearance and permission before embarking on the demonstration, therefore he declared it illegal.