By Mohammed Baba Busu In an effort to ensure food security and sufficiency, a delegation from Niger, led by the Special Adviser on Social Investment Programme, Hauwa Bako, has visited Soilless Farm Labs in Ogun. The visit was to ensure the successful implementation of its agricultural policies in the state.Continue Reading
Aluta News The Okun Society Forum of Kogi on Sunday called for removal of the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Bertrand Onuoha, over alleged compromise of security. The Director of Security and Intelligence of the group, retired Brig.-Gen. Benjamin Ipinyomi, made the call in Lagos State, while briefingContinue Reading
Aluta News Vice-President Kashim Shettima has urged heads of agencies to be guided by the extant provisions that established their organisations in preparing their 2025 budget Shettima, represented by Sen. Ibrahim Hadejia, made the call during a retreat for the Chief Executives of the Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) underContinue Reading
Aluta News The Commandant, National Defence College (NDC), Rear Adm. Olumuyiwa Olotu, says the participants of the college’s Course 32 visited no fewer than 23 countries on study tour. Olotu made this known on Sunday in Abuja, during the Interdenominational Church Service to commemorate the graduation of the participant havingContinue Reading
Aluta News The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Mbadugha at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, (NAIA), Abuja after he tested positive to ingestion of cocaine. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on SundayContinue Reading
Aluta News The Chairman, Equipment and Protective Applications Nigerian Limited (EPAIL), Kola Balogun, says the development of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, is key to developing a viable defence industry in Nigeria. Balogun, who is also the Secretary, Defense Industrial Association of Nigeria (DIAN), said this in an interview with theContinue Reading
Aluta News Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted 892,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N6.2 billion in street value. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that operatives recovered the drugs from five containers. Babafemi said the operationContinue Reading
Aluta News The Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), on Sunday, says some retirees are still receiving N500 as monthly pension in the country. Alhassan Musa, the Secretary of the union in Kaduna State, in an interviews withthe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), described the condition of the returnees as “pathetic”.Continue Reading
Aluta News The Acting Governor of Niger, Yakubu Garba, has felicitated with former Military President Ibrahim Babangida on his 83rd birthday. Garba in a statement by his Press Secretary, Hajiya Ummikhaltume Kuta, in Minna on Saturday, described IBB “as a bridge builder and father of modern Nigeria. He said Babangida,Continue Reading
Aluta News The Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX) has lifted the suspension placed on trading in the shares of Guinea Insurance Plc, effective Aug.12. NGX, in its weekly report made available to newsmen in Lagos, confimed that the suspension was lifted because the insurer had filed its audited financial statements forContinue Reading
