The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig.-Gen. Muhammed Marwa, said the agency has secured 3,733 convictions of drug dealers in 24 months. Marwa who said this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the activities of NDLEA during his tenure, said...
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By Esther Alexander- Abuja Dance and music sensation and mother of two Korea Obidi has narrated her ordeals in the hands of her estranged husband Justin Dean. Korra during a live video on her verified social media handle noted that she suffered series of abuse and now living in...
A Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Jimoh Moshood, told an FCT High Court, Kubwa that a former Senator, Isah Misau defamed the integrity and reputation of the police. Moshood, DCP, Administration, Oyo state police command made this known while being led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Bello Abu....
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele has asked the Appeal court to set aside an order of a lower court compelling his appearance in a 53 million dollars judgment debt proceedings. Emefielr’ Counsel, Mr Joe Agi, SAN, had obtained a judgment summons against...
As Nigerians prepare to elect a new President in the February 25 Presidential election, a straw poll has put Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as favourite to win the election ahead of other candidates. Atiku, from Adamawa state in the north east is running...
The Federal Executive Council(FEC) has approved the recommendation for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC LTD.) to invest 1.9 trillion in the reconstruction of 44 federal roads under the tax credit policy. The council gave the approval at its meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on...
Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says he will expand the scope of Nigeria’s economy by tackling unemployment, if voted into power. The former vice-president made the pledge during a Presidential Stakeholders’ Engagement, held on Wednesday in Abeokuta. According to him, unemployment and the living...
The Whistleblowers Anti-corruption Reporting Network (WARN), a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) says it has received 1,381 whistle blowing information and has supplied those information to various anti-corruption agencies in the country. Mr Gabriel Onwe, the Executive Director of WARN, disclosed this at the one-year anniversary of the organisation, on...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has warned party officials, chairmen of local government areas, overseers of development areas, as well as candidates of the party, against complacency but to deliver the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the February general elections. Governor Sule gave the...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Godwin Amanke, has said the British Canadian University in Obudu Local government Area, when fully operational, will reduce medical tourism. Dr. Amanke stated this during a ministerial press briefing at the Ministry of Information and Orientation...
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Lagos West senatorial district, Otunba Segun Adewale says he has gifted more than 10,000 mobile phones, 1,000 television sets, and 1,000 power generators to his constituents. Director of Communications in the Segun Adewale Campaign Organisation, Mr Segun Ogundairo stated in Lagos...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says humility, honesty, integrity, wisdom, courage, competence and fear of God should be imparted in students across the country for a better future. Obasanjo said this while delivering his lecture during the 100th anniversary of Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta, held at the school...
Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has advised media practitioners to shun fake news as no society could develop optimally where there was misinformation and confusion. He appealed to media professionals to thoroughly conduct their research and ensure objective reportage of facts. Abiodun, who made this assertion while playing host...
The Ondo State Government on Wednesday announced the extension of maternity leave to six months as part of efforts to ensure total child development. The State Head of Service, Pastor Kayode Ogundele, said this while receiving members of the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Ondo State chapter, in his...
UN Secretary General António Guterres on Wednesday said the world is “looking into the eye of a Category 5 hurricane” in a blunt speech to political leaders and business chiefs at Davos. The UN boss delivered a scorching assessment of the “sorry state of our world” from the main...
A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 22-year old domestic help, Abigail Sunday who allegedly stole her employer’s diamond ring. The Police charged Sunday, a resident of behind Duru Dawaki with theft but she pleaded not guilty. The Judge, Saminu Suleiman, ordered...
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration spent over $1 billion on equipment needed to recover territories in the North-East taken by Boko Haram. “When I assumed power in 2015, Boko Haram held about two thirds of Borno State, half of Yobe State, and a couple of Local Government Areas...
Nigeria plans to increase primary school enrollment from the current 46 per cent to 90 per cent by 2030. The country also plans to double the enrollment of females in schools and ensure secondary school education completion rate from 42 per cent to 80 per cent by 2030. The...
Ukrainian officials said 18 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children died on Wednesday morning when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv. The regional governor said 29 people were also hurt, including 15 children, when the helicopter came down in a residential...
The world’s oldest known person, French nun Sister André, has died at age 118 in the southern French city of Toulon, the city’s mayor Hubert Falco said on Wednesday. Born in the southern French town of Ales on Feb. 11, 1904, as Lucile Randon, Sister André was listed as...