People And Power NewsMagazine

05/03/2024

By Vitalis Obidiaghaa Briefing the Press after the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu

18/01/2022

By Babafemi Ojudu   I have seen a statement made by me, many years ago, to celebrate the 60th birthday anniversary of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu making the rounds. Yes, I did make that statement. And more of such will come in my autobiography. We, together, have seen good days and bad days. I and Bo...

17/01/2022

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Lucky Irabor has commended personnel of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) for their outstanding performance in ensuring a safe and secure country throughout 2021. The CDS gave the commendation in the spirit of the New Year celebration. Gen Irabor saluted the men...

12/11/2021

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has initiated an entrepreneurship and empowerment programme for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has initiated an entrepreneurship and empowerment programme for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members. The programme which is tagged: the Managing Director's Annual NYSC Entrepreneurship Competition, involves a business plan contest among...

11/06/2021

...forms special squads for traffic robbery By Okosun Dennis   The Lagos State Police Command on Friday said that the command wasn't aware of any planned protest in Lagos State to commemorate the 2021 Democracy Day on Saturday, June 12, 2021. As a result, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP...

20/05/2021

Golf players from across the country and West Africa are currently in Aba for the First Abia Governor's Cup Open Championship which started from May 19-23, 2021, at the famous Aba Golf Course. Speaking before taking the first shot to tee off the competition, Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu e...

19/05/2021

By Frank Oshanugor   The announcement on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, by His Excellency, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, Governor of Delta State, granting full independence to the judiciary to operate in the State, has been hailed by one of the Governor's aides; Dr. Michael Nwoko as a pace-setting step in...

19/05/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Board, Management, and staffs of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) express grief and commiserate with the Chairman, Board of Commissioners of NCC, Prof. Adeolu Akande over the passage of his daughter, Miss Feranmi Fasunle. Miss Fasunle, aged 19, was a ...

06/05/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Bello Hassan, has stressed the need for effective collaboration between regulators and operators in the banking system for the establishment of sound ethics and professiona...

06/05/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami has won the Most Outstanding Minister of the Year 2020, from PEOPLE AND POWER MAGAZINE. It was a double award for Pantami when the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy also bagged the....

04/05/2021

By Okosun Dennis   Abiodun Omotosho, is among 17 other journalists that would be honoured with an award on Wednesday by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) as part of its 2020/2021 Press Freedom Lecture and Award night. The event is scheduled to hold at Ladi Kwali Hall, Abuja Sheraton Hotel and ...

02/05/2021

...promises inconclusive, transformational administration By Okosun Dennis   A new Chairman of Lekki Atlantic Gardens Resident Association (LAGRA), Alabeko, has emerged. He is Pastor Fisayo Sogbola. He was declared the winner and returned elected by the Chairman, Lekki Atlantic Gardens Independent ...

15/04/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Federal Government has approved the Activation of New SIM Registration with Mandatory NIN in line with the Revised National Digital Identity Policy for SIM Card Registration. The Nigerian Communications Act (NCA) 2003, Section 23(a), specifies the role of the Min...

30/03/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has stated that its two towers along the Damaturu - Maiduguri 330kV Transmission Line has again been vandalized by insurgents, after it had made a concerted effort and restored power to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on ...

25/03/2021

By Odimmegwa JohnPeter, Abuja   The federal government has described its relationship with Switzerland in the last 10 years as impactful, unique, and exemplary. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq made this known at a Joint Event to m...

17/03/2021

…Eastern rail line will generate over 20,000 jobs By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s major aim for investing in rail construction all over the country is to create employment for Nigerian y...

17/03/2021

By Okosun Dennis   As the vaccination of some top echelons in the military receives doses of Covid-19 vaccine, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Lawrence Fejokwu on Monday took his first dose of Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Bonny Cantonment. The dose w...

13/03/2021

...as CP Odumosu vows to make Lagos hot for criminals   By Okosun Dennis   Lagos State Police Command on Sunday re-echoed its readiness to tackle and decimate criminals in the state just as it confirmed the arrest of 50 suspected armed robbers and six cultists at Imota, Igbokuta, Adamo and Emure i...

01/03/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Nigerian Navy has alerted the general public and the Nigerian media in particular, on inaccurate and unverified news reports on the rate of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). This was contained in a statement by Commodore Suleiman Dahun for the Chief of Naval St...

01/03/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Lucky Irabor has urged telecommunications service providers operating within the shores of Nigeria to support the efforts by the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) and other security agencies to apprehend perpetrators of cri...

01/03/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technology in Nigeria, clarifying that there is no known scientific evidence till date suggesting that 5G po...

01/03/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on 25 February 2021, laid to rest the remains of 7 of its personnel who died on 21 February 2021 in an air crash involving a NAF Beechcraft King Air B350i aircraft in Abuja. The late gallant personnel were Flight Lieutenant Haruna Gadzama...

25/02/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdulahhi, CCIE said that to achieve Digital Transformation in Nigeria, there is need to efficiently use the vast opportunities embedded in the Space Technology eco...

25/02/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   As the year 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) into Nigeria, the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has lauded the company’s contributions in infrastructural development through it ...

25/02/2021

- Foundation and Tower Materials Ready By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with the support of the Borno State Government have mobilized resources to ensure quick restoration of electricity supply to Maiduguri, the state capital and environs. Electricity supply...

25/02/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Lucky Irabor has expressed commitment of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) towards supporting the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in the protection of the Corporation’s critical national assets and ope...

25/02/2021

By Odimmegwa Johnpeter, Abuja   The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, on Tuesday said virtual assets and cryptocurrencies are risky for implementation in Nigeria. Prof. Owasanoye made this known in his presentati...