By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI, Warri – The Country Director and CEO, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice, CEPEJ, Chief Comrade Mulade Sheriff, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to complete the environmental remediation and socioeconomic rejuvenation of the Niger Delta region devastated by long periods of oil spill...
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The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, has recommended integrity drug test as requirement for all politicians seeking public office and public office holders. Marwa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the idea behind the call for...
The Nigerian community in New York has raised 33,000 dollars in its ongoing efforts to support, Mr Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City in the November election. Chairman, Board of the Organisation for the Advancement of Nigerians (OAN), Mr Yinka Dansalami, told the...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized not less than two million kilogrammes of cocaine, heroin, other hard drugs and substances in the past nine months of 2021. Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that...
Ahead of the national congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), female members of the party have insisted on having the Deputy Chairman (North) position. The women made the call during a meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Sunday. Their demand comes days after the National Executive...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ilorin – No fewer than eleven people have lost their lives in an auto crash said to have been caused by wrongful overtaking along the Jebba-Bode Saadu in the Moro Local Government Areas of Kwara State. According to eyewitnesses, the accident which occurred around 4:00pm on...
By OLA MODUPE, Akure – At least four passengers have died while 19 others sustained injuries in boat accidents at different locations in Ilaje and Irele Local Government Areas of the Ondo State. The spokesman of the state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Olufemi...
Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Gyang Buba, has decried the use of inciting utterances to heat up the polity in Plateau. He said at a ceremony marking his 70th birthday in Jos, that such utterances were targeted at causing hatred among people of Plateau and to fuel insecurity. The...
By AISHA NANA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Government has earmarked the sum of N7m to fumigate six out of the 20 Local Government Areas against mosquitoes in order to mitigate the incidence of malaria. The Director General of the state Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA), Dr. Ibrahim Kabir, who...
The newly elected President of the World Medical Association (WMA), Dr Osahon Enabulele, has stressed the need for Nigeria and other African countries to accord priority to their health sector to enable them compete globally. He stated this on Sunday at the Benin Airport where he was received by...
Nigerian farmers have decried the scarcity of water which has hit rice, beans and millet farms across the Northern states. In an interview, Mallam Idris Musa Sarkin Noman Abakwa, Kaduna, said he was afraid that many local farmers may lose their crops in 2021 due to scarcity of water,...
Mr Rufus Bature, immediate past Secretary to Plateau Government, has been elected as the State Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), through a consensus agreement. The state congress held on Saturday night also produced other officials unoppsed. Those elected were Fidelis Longban, State Secretary, Sylvanus Namang, Public Relations Officer,...
Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, has been arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws following the killing of lawmaker David Amess, a source close to the investigation and British media said. Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s...
The Federal Government says it has completed about 700km Railway line, currently running commercial activities within the country. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the mileage was about 5000km to 6000km, which the present administration planned to embark upon. He...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is expected to be discharged from hospital on Sunday after suffering fatigue, his spokesman, Angel Urena said in a statement. The 75-year-old, who served as president from 1993 to 2001, entered the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening after suffering from...
An Al-Shabab commander surrendered to the Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday in Wajid town in Bakool region, Southwest Somalia. Mohamed Nur, SNA army officer told reporters that Mohamed Kulow Ali who was in charge of the terror group’s operations in the southern region surrendered to the Somali army...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – Former President of the Senate, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, declared at the weekend that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was on the path of rebuilding Nigeria with a view to restoring hope to the disillusioned citizens of the nation. While lamenting that Nigeria had...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preparing to set up “in the coming days” a new national aviation company called “Air Congo”, DRC’s Ministry of Transport said Sunday. The new airline “will have to be born in the coming days in the DRC with quality aircraft”, thanks...