One of Nigeria’s top real estate developers, T.Pumpy Concept Limited has announced its top picks properties as we approach the end of 2024. The top picks out of over 100 housing estates owned by T.Pumpy are Guzape and Maitama 2, both in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Consequently, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of T.Pumpy Concept Limited, Mr. Akintayo Adaralegbe, has graciously approved reduction in prices at the two locations. According to him, the gesture will only run for three weeks – November 18, 2024 to January 10, 2025. For Guzape, interested subscribers can get 150 sqm…
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By Fredrick Nwabufo Housing is a corporeal, psychological, and social need. It is not only a rudimentary component of existence but also an apodictic facet of human dignity. It is as essential as life. Nigeria does have a challenge of affordable housing. The enormity of the challenge is even more perturbing when our steadily rising population is thrown into the dialectics of demography and poverty. According to the World Bank, Nigeria’s population, which currently is estimated to be 223 million, is projected to hit 262.9 million by 2030 and 401.3 million by 2050, becoming the third largest in the world.…
Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia, has approved a minimum wage of ₦75,000 for workers in the state. Alia in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Tersoo Kula, announced the new wage after he met with organised labour representatives on Monday in Makurdi. The governor said that the new minimum wage would take effect in November 2024. He stated that the remaining three months of the five-month backlog of salary arrears promised workers would be paid as budgeted in the 2024 budget. He emphasised that the arrias would be paid along with the new minimum wage. “We decided to…
President Bola Tinubu has re-designated the positions of two recently appointed officials in the State House media and communications team to enhance efficiency within the government’s communication machinery. According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the restructuring is as follows: 1. Mr. Sunday Dare – hitherto Special Adviser on Public Communication and National Orientation is now Special Adviser, Media and Public Communications. 2. Mr. Daniel Bwala – announced last week as Special Adviser, Media and Public Communication, is now Special Adviser Policy Communication. These appointments, along with the existing role of Special Adviser, Information and Strategy, underscore that…
No fewer than 101 foreigners have been executed so far in Saudi Arabia this year. An AFP tally, indicates a sharp increase that a rights group said was unprecedented. The latest execution, on Saturday in the southwestern region of Najran, was of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs into the Gulf kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. That brought to 101 the number of foreigners executed so far in 2024, according to the tally, which is compiled from state media reports. This is almost triple the figures for 2023 and 2022, when Saudi authorities put to death 34…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has alerted members of the public on the activities of fraudsters purporting to be in receipt of award letters of contracts related to construction works and special financial interventions on behalf of the Bank. This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Hakama Sidi Ali Director of Corporate Communications and made available on Monday. The statement reads “We wish to clarify that this is false. These individuals are solely motivated by the desire to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians. Any such assertions are fraudulent and should be disregarded. “The Bank hereby…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE), Mr. Ayodeji Ariyo Gbeleyi, for his dedicated service to the country and acknowledged his significant contributions in attracting Foreign Direct Investment(FDIs) to Nigeria. In a congratulatory message marking the BPE, DG’s 60th birthday, the president commended Gbeleyi for “his unwavering commitment to reform at various levels—private sector, subnational, and national” resulting in the DG’s leadership in modernising public institutions vital to the nation’s progress. Tinubu noted that as the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Gbeleyi plays a pivotal…
Hannatu Musawa, Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, has congratulated Nigeria’s Chidinma Adetshina on her outstanding achievement as the first runner-up of the 2024 Miss Universe pageant. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister conveyed her congratulatory message in a statement on Monday in Abuja. The grand finale of the 2024 Miss Universe was held on Sunday at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City, with Adetshina finishing second while Miss Denmark, Victoria Theilvig, clinched the highly coveted crown. The first runner-up, who is the highest ranked African contestant of the competition, was also crowned Miss Universe…
Let me start by congratulating former President Olusegun Obasanjo the Balogun Owu kingdom. Going through the Bible, I came across men like Daniel called the greatly beloved of God (Daniel 10:11); Abraham, a friend of God (James 2:23); David, a man after God’s heart (Acts 13:22); Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo is another personality that is known to be a beneficiary of God’s benevolence. The former Head of state/President came from a Nigerian village Ibogun-Olaogun, Ifo, Ogun State, Nigeria, to the pinnacle of power on the continent. Obasanjo was Nigeria’s military head of state between 1976 and 1979 and…
In a recent display of his characteristic self-importance, former President Olusegun Obasanjo once again took to the public stage to bestow his unsolicited wisdom on leadership and governance in Nigeria. From his lofty perch, he blamed those who served after his tenure for the nation’s myriad challenges. Unfortunately, the former leader’s habit of casting aspersions on every subsequent administration has devolved into a recurring pastime, overshadowing the expectation of an elder statesman to join a constructive dialogue on attaining national progress. In his latest critique of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he pejoratively called ‘Baba Go Slow’ and…