Mrs Oluremi Oyo, the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is now a ‘Dame’ of the Catholic Church. The honour was conferred last May on her and two other Nigerian women by Pope Benedict XVI, with the investiture done today at Our Lady of Fatimah Catholic Cathedral, Kano. Mrs Aminat Yakowa, wife [...]
With just a few days to Christmas and New Year celebrations, the prices of basic food items have skyrocketed in most markets across the country, a nationwide survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has shown. The survey in some markets revealed that the prices of foodstuffs, which showed marginal increases during the last [...]
The police in Lagos have arrested a driver, whose car allegedly ran over a three-month old baby strapped on its mother’s back atop a commercial motorcycle. Mr. Samuel Jinadu, a DSP and Lagos police deputy spokesman, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Ikeja. Jinadu said that the incident happened on [...]
Barely twenty-four hours to Eid-El-Kabir, the prices of rams in the country have soared beyond the reach of many muslims, P.M.NEWS investigations have revealed. Investigations in Lagos State, South-West Nigeria, revealed that the prices of rams now range between N25, 000 and N120, 000. Visits to ram markets showed that while a small ram goes [...]
Politicians have been advised to seek the approval of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) before publishing any advertisement in respect of the 2011 general elections. The council’s Registrar, Alhaji Garba Bello, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday that such clearance was necessary to check abuse of advertisements by [...]
The Rivers State Bureau of Public Procurement (RSBOPP) is to begin the prosecution of contractors and government organisations that flouted its rules on the award of contracts. Mr. Franklyn Nlerum, the Director-General, made this known in Port Harcourt in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Nlerum said his office had begun the [...]
Some youths suspected to be political thugs, in a broad daylight in Katsina on Sunday, snatched N500,000 cash from the Chairman of CPC, Charanchi Local Government Area, Alhaji Ibrahim Charanchi. Charanchi told newsmen in Katsina shortly after the incident that it happened after Sen. Lado Danmarke disbursed N17 million as Sallah gifts to officials of [...]
