Chairman of Air Peace, Dr Allen Onyema, says airlines will not be intimidated by aviation unions threatening to disrupt operations over alleged Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) remittance failures. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, Onyema described the planned action as unprecedented and an attempt to intimidate domestic airline operators. He stressed that airlines had no dispute with aviation unions, insisting that statutory charge remittance issues were strictly between operators and the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). “We do not have any problem with any union, neither do we have any business with the unions. This is an aberration; it…
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The Federal Government has stepped up monitoring of seismic activity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) after a mild earth tremor affected parts of Abuja, with the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, directing the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) to provide him with hourly updates. The directive followed an alert from the NGSA confirming that an earth tremor was recorded on Tuesday, prompting authorities to intensify surveillance while assuring residents there was no immediate cause for concern. In a statement issued on Wednesday by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Lara Owoeye-Wise, Alake urged residents to remain calm…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to preserving religious harmony, assuring all faith communities of the freedom to worship and coexist peacefully. The governor said such harmony remains one of the state’s greatest strengths. Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance at the Golden Jubilee International Annual Convention of The Apostolic Church Nigeria, Lagos and Western, Mid-Western/Northern Areas (LAWNA) Territory, in Lagos on Wednesday. The one-week convention, themed “The Militant Church on the Earth” (drawn from 1 Timothy 6:12), began on 1 August and ends on 7 August. It commemorates five decades since the inaugural convention in 1977.…
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has commenced legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) following the freezing of one of the state’s bank accounts, describing the action as unlawful and politically motivated. The legal move came hours after the anti-graft agency placed a state government account domiciled with First Bank on “Post No Debit” status, effectively restricting transactions on the account reportedly used for the payment of workers’ salaries. Speaking at a press briefing in Osogbo on Wednesday, Adeleke maintained that the EFCC lacked the legal authority to freeze the accounts of a state government without a…
The Nasara Foundation, in collaboration with the Islamic Enlightenment Foundation of Nigeria, will organise a free cataract surgery outreach for patients with cataract-related eye conditions in Kebbi. Mr Dauda Vanumu, Press Secretary to the wife of the Kebbi Governor, confirmed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday. The statement disclosed that the four-day medical outreach is scheduled for Saturday, August 8 to Tuesday, August 11, at the General Hospital, Koko in Koko-Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi. “The four-day exercise will start at 9:00 a.m. daily,” it said. According to the statement, the humanitarian initiative…
Ginger farmers in Kaduna have said that a project to eliminate child labour has improved their farming practices and revived ginger production after years of losses caused by ginger blight. In a follow-up interview with reporters, the farmers said the Kaduna Ginger Project had transformed their practices and strengthened efforts to eliminate child labour in ginger production. The project was organised by the Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN) and the Fair Labor Association (FLA). According to many of them, the project marked a turning point after a fungal disease ravaged ginger farms across Southern Kaduna, forcing…
Farmers are increasingly turning to agricultural insurance to protect their investments against floods, drought, diseases and other production risks. The Managing Director of Guinea Insurance Plc, Mr Ademola Abidogun, said the company had insured about 50 farmer groups, including agritech firms, within six months. Abidogun disclosed this in an interview with reporters on Tuesday in Lagos. Also present was Mr Baron Omiji, Team Lead, Agric Insurance at Guinea Insurance Plc. He said the company’s Agricultural Insurance Desk became fully operational in 2023 and has since expanded coverage across various segments of the agricultural value chain. According to him, beneficiaries include…
Dr. Bisola Aduba, an agritech expert, says Nigeria can substantially increase food production by adopting precision agriculture instead of expanding cultivation into shrinking farmlands. Aduba said this during an interview with reporters on Wednesday in Abuja. She noted that the combined pressures of desertification, insecurity and rapid population growth require farmers to produce more food from existing farmland. She said the future of agriculture in states such as Benue and Southern Kaduna lies in using technology to improve productivity rather than clearing additional land that could fuel conflicts over grazing routes. “To double yields on half the land without encroaching…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and thunderstorms from Wednesday to Friday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released in Abuja envisaged patches of clouds over the northern region with prospects of thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rains over parts of Sokoto, Kebbi, Katsina, Kano, Zamfara, Gombe, Bauchi, Taraba and Adamawa States during the morning hours. According to NiMet, thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rains are expected over parts of Kaduna and the entire North-East region later in the day. “Patches of clouds are expected over the North-Central region with chances of thunderstorms with light rains over parts of the…
The National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF) has inaugurated the National Agricultural Mechanisation Service Providers Training Programme for 4,000 trainees across the six geopolitical zones. The 10-day programme is aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s agricultural mechanisation drive. The Executive Secretary of NADF, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, said the training was being implemented in partnership with John Deere representative AGCOMS, the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. Represented by the General Manager, Technical Services, Mr Ernest Ihedigbo, Ibrahim said the programme was designed to build a pool of certified tractor operators and mechanics to support the Federal…