TheHILL | NEWS | FEBRUARY 3 Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio has secured the sum of N10.4bn for the completion of construction work on the East- West Road, from the 2021 Sovereign Sukuk Issuance. In his remarks before he was presented with the cheque by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National […]
TheHILL | NEWS | FEBRUARY 1. Ibom Air has once again emerged as the best airline in Nigeria, an award it also won in 2021, its first year of operations. This was disclosed by Mr Ikechi Uko, Organiser, Travellers Award and publisher ATQnews. Uko said this was based on the ranking of Nigerian airlines, using […]
TheHILL | NEWS | January 29 Minister, Niger Delta Affairs Ministry, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has described the Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Hon Olubunmi Ojo, as a politician who lives among his people and has earned their support and respect. Akpabio stated this while speaking in Owo, Ondo […]
TheHILL | TECHNOLOGY | January 28. Director General, National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC, Jelani Aliyu, has unveiled an electric mini-bus converted from a petrol engine. The EV project was executed by a group of four young technocrats from Maiduguri, Borno State. According to our source; Vanguard, the vehicle was presented on Wednesday to […]
TheHILL | NEWS | January 28. No fewer than six persons died when an illegal gold stone mine in Umai community, Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, collapsed. Reports from the area, which is about 80 kilometres from Calabar, indicates that the mine which is several feet deep, collapsed on Wednesday killing six […]
TheHILL | NEWS | January 25. Nigeria’s electoral umpire; Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it was already running against time as regards preparation for the 2023 general elections. INEC National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, IVEC, Mr. Festus Okoye, stated this in Asaba, the Delta State capital. He urged both chambers of the […]
TheHILL. | NEWS | January 25 The Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has canvassed better welfare and remuneration of judicial officers for efficient justice delivery. He stated this on Tuesday at the 2022 Justice Sector Summit organised by the Nigerian Bar Association and the Justice Research Institute in collaboration with the […]
TheHILL | NEWS | January 23. Officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ogun State Sector Command, rendered assistance to a woman in labour while in transit on Friday. FRSC, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem, in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, said the assistance became imperative to save the pregnant woman and […]
TheHILL | NEWS. | The Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB (IPOB) has said that being part of Biafra would never be by coercion but voluntary through a referendum. The group, in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary Emma Powerful, said any tribe or ethnicity not willing to be part of the republic would […]
TheHILL Fresh insights into the jostling for the All Progressives Congress, APC 2023 presidential ticket have revealed how the plot to project and draft former President Goodluck Jonathan into the party’s 2023 presidential race collapsed. The collapse of the Jonathan plot ostensibly pushed by some elements in the leadership of the party with the intention […]