Hajj 2024: NAHCON announces increment in fare

…intending pilgrims who paid N4,899,000.00, will pay an additional N1,918,032.91 while new applicants are to pay N8,454,464.74 The Ogun State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, OGMPWB, has announced an increment in 2024 Hajj fare, as directed by the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON. This was contained in a release signed by the Executive Secretary of…

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Court jails unlicenced banker in Port Harcourt

Azubuike Mamwu Obasi was sentenced to six months in prison for currency racketeering in Port Harcourt. He pleaded guilty to charges of illegal acquisition of banknotes and conducting banking services without a license. The Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, secured the conviction and sentencing…

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37,874 defect to PDP in Akwa Ibom

No fewer than 37,874 members of opposition political parties in Akwa Ibom State were, on Friday, received into the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by the state governor, Pastor Umo Eno. Receiving the returnees who hitherto were members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Young Progressives Party, YPP, New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, and Social Democratic…

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Gov Otu inaugurates MSME Council

Governor Bassey Otu has charged Members of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise, MSME Council to contribute their quota to the present administration’s prosperity programme by innovatively driving Cross River atop the enterprise development radar among the comity of Nigerian states. The Governor gave the charge, recently, while inaugurating the Chairman and members of the…

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