The Benue Government has commenced the distribution of more than N1.2 billion of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) interventions that came in from Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, and donors. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mrs Deborah Aber, made the disclosure on Friday at the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) headquarters in Makurdi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aber is the chairman of the technical committee on the implementation of the interventions of Sen. Tinubu, the Nassarawa State Government, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and the Department of State Services (DSS) to the Yelewata attack…
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The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) on Friday, distributed food items and essential supplies to vulnerable children and the less privileged in Rivers, in the spirit of yuletide. Presenting the items to the Port Harcourt Children’s Home, Managing Director of PHED, Mr Ete Pinnick, described Christmas as a period of compassion, love and shared humanity. Pinnick who was represented by PHED’s Chief People Officer, Mrs Angela Ajare, said that the company’s 2025 Christmas outreach targets vulnerable children and the less privileged. According to him, Christmas is a time to show love, spread joy and demonstrate the values that epitomise…
Air Peace Ltd., on Friday, announced the resumption of daily return flights between Ibadan and Abuja, from Dec. 24, following a reopening of the Ibadan Airport. The airline disclosed this in a statement to newsmen in Lagos, by its spokesperson, Mr Efe Osifo-Whiskey. He said that the resumption follows Air Peace’s response to the demand of passengers, especially travellers in Oyo State and surrounding regions, who are seeking access to the nation’s capital. He noted that fares on the Ibadan-Abuja route, starting from ₦95,000, will offer customers an affordable travel option during the high-traffic festive season and beyond. Osifo-Whiskey added…
President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria’s inflation rate declined to 14.45 per cent in November from 24.23 per cent in March. Tinubu stated this during the presentation of the 2026 Appropriation Bill before the joint session of the National Assembly on Friday. 9news Nigeria reports that the budget was tagged: “Budget of Consolidation, Renewed Resilience and Shared Prosperity.” Tinubu said that he was encouraged that his administration’s reform efforts were already yielding measurable results. He said: “Our economy grew by 3.98 per in Q3 2025, higher than the 3.86 per cent recorded in Q3 2024. “Inflation has moderated for eight consecutive…
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau on Thursday inaugurated a housing project to resettle Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Plateau. The project was initiated by a group, Eden Initiative for Humanitarian Support at Ribakwa community, Irigwe Chiefdom, Bassa Local Government Area (LGAs) of the state. Speaking at the event, Mutfwang said that the project marked the beginning of a new dawn towards alleviating the sufferings of displaced persons in the state. The governor, emphasised that the Ribakwa project is the first phase of a broader resettlement journey, assuring the IDPs in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Bokkos and Mangu LGAs that total relief…
HitchPay, an Africa’s rocket-fueled payment platform, has unveiled financial inclusion initiative at the NYSC orientation camp in Iseyin, Oyo State, aimed at increasing digital financial literacy among newly enlisted corps members. The Chief Operating Officer of HitchPay, Ms Eunice Bankole, said this in a statement by its Corporate Communication Advisor, Emman Ozoemena on Friday in Abuja. Bankole said that the programme combined brand activation, a digital career fair, and sponsorship of two camp events to reach thousands of participants. She said that during the brand‑activation phase, HitchPay staff demonstrated instant app registration, frictionless fund transfers, real‑time transaction validation and electronic…
An Enugu-based philanthropist, Chief Chris-Baywood Ibe, and his siblings have donated food items to 1,050 indigent households from 21 communities in Awgu LGA of Enugu State for the Christmas celebration. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gesture was also carried out by the family in memory of their late mother, Mrs Eunice Ibe, scheduled to be buried on Friday. The food items included bags of rice, cartons of groundnut oil and ingredients. In a brief speech at the event, Ibe said the beneficiaries comprised indigent persons, who might not afford good food to eat during the celebration.…
The Katsina State Government said it has traced and reclaimed landed properties worth more than ₦10 billion, about 38 years after the state was carved out of the defunct Kaduna State. The General Manager of the Katsina State Assets Management Agency, Dr Lawal Aminu-Bala, disclosed this while briefing journalists in Katsina on Thursday. According to him, the recovery followed a directive by the state government led by Gov. Dikko Radda to trace and recover all public assets that were encroached or converted to private use. Aminu-Bala said that the development led to the inauguration of a committee chaired by the…
The European Union (EU) has agreed to provide Ukraine with €90 billion ($105.5 billion) for the years 2026 and 2027, European Council President Antonio Costa has said. “We have a deal,” Costa said in a post on social media platform X in the early hours of Friday. “Decision to provide 90 billion euros of support to Ukraine for 2026-27 approved. We committed, we delivered.” EU leaders gathered in Brussels reached a compromise after plans to use billions of euros in frozen Russian state assets to cover Ukraine’s financing needs of the coming years failed to gain the necessary backing. Ukraine…
Downdetector report on the largest global outages in 2025 ranks AWS, PlayStation, and Cloudflare among the top three largest service outages of the year, based on the number of reports. According to the data, Downdetector received 17 million AWS reports, 3.9 million PlayStation reports, and 3.3 million Cloudflare reports. However, the scale of an outage is not only measured by report counts, but by how many services depend on a single provider to function. On November 18, 2025, and December 5, 2025, American company Cloudflare experienced downtime, which affected many of the Internet services millions of users worldwide rely on daily, including ChatGPT,…