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Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has promised to rebuild police stations burnt during the EndSARS protest in the state. He also pledged to provide other logistics that would make the police work better. Makinde spoke on Monday when he visited the headquarters of the Oyo State Police Command...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Monday in Benin, promised that the state government would rebuild all the police stations burnt across the state during the recent EndSARS protests.Obaseki, who gave the assurance when he paid a solidarity visit to the police command in the state, also assured that...
Belgian Pro League leading marksman, Paul Onuachu of Nigeria, has received a late call-up to the Super Eagles squad ahead of their upcoming 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying matches against Sierra Leone. A tweet by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on the Super Eagles official Twitter Account@NGSuperEagles on...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the invitation of Mr Babatunde Fowler, former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for questioning. “He was invited by the Commission and responded today,” EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday...
Kabul, Oct. 2, 2020 (Xinhua/NAN) A total of 40,000 children have been deprived of anti-polio vaccination due to the restriction imposed by the Taliban group in the northern Badakhshan province. Provincial Public Health Director, Noor Khawari said on Monday. “A home-to-home vaccination campaign covering up to 40,000 children was...
The Management of Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa State has fixed Nov. 16 for the resumption of all academic activities in the institution. The Rector of the polytechnic, Dr Abdullahi Ahmed, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Nasarawa Local Government Area. Ahmed explained that...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday dragged a 35-year-old man, Azeez Moshood, before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over drug trafficking. The defendant, an artisan, is standing trial on a one-count charge of trafficking 546.4kg of Cannabis, also known as hemp. He, however, pleaded not...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday said that its members have been rejecting to migrate to the Integrated Personal Payroll Information System (IPPIS) since 2013. Dr Aniekan Brown, Coordinator, ASUU Calabar Zone, disclosed this during a press conference in Calabar. Brown recalled that on March 23...
The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), says it will educate no fewer than 10,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) operators, on the need to key into insurance. Mr Rasaaq Salami, NAICOM’s Head, Commissioner for Insurance Directorate, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja on Monday, that the...
The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), under its sustainability plan for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), has granted a special consultative status to Cleen Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Nigeria.Mr Benson Olugbuo, the Executive Director of the Foundation, said this in a statement on Monday...
Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) says it recorded no less than 200 cases of meter bypass and 54 cases of transformer vandalism in six months. The JEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Dr Adakole Elijah, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on...
The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Yakubu Pam, has charged Nigerians to be true nationalists and begin to think deeply about the nation. Pam, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, stressed that there was urgent need to...
The Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC), says it has effected the revised tariff for its customers in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Taraba on Nov. 1. Mr Kingsley Nkemneme, YEDC Senior Manager, Corporate Communications said this in a statement in Maiduguri on Monday. “Prepaid customers will vend on revised tariff,...
Schools across France on Monday observed a minute of silence in honour of Samuel Paty, a teacher, killed after using cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a class on freedom of expression. The beheading of Paty, by a young man who waited for him outside his school on Oct. 16, shocked...
A Swiss court will on Monday start hearing Russia’s appeal against a four-year ban imposed on its athletes competing at major international events under their own flag over allegations of doctoring laboratory data. At a four-day hearing, the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) could deprive Russian athletes...
Enhanced security measures were seen across the U.S., a country that is bracing for possible violence related to the high-stakes presidential election with election day two days away. In Washington, D.C., shopfronts are boarding up their windows with plywood or putting up other makeshift barriers, some of them stretching...
Many hospitals in Nigeria now dispense drugs that will last for three months to people living with HIV. Mr Ikenna Nwakanma, First Co-chairman, Coalition of Civil Society Networks on HIV and AIDS in Nigeria told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the Covid-19 challenge and concerns...
The New Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently before the National Assembly has proposed that oil companies operating in some communities must develop community development plan to ensure their economic growth. The new bill obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) revealed that the companies are expected to...
The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) on Monday said at least 79 people were killed and 962 others were wounded in a strong earthquake that hit Turkey’s western province of Izmir. In a written statement, the AFAD noted that rescue operations are still ongoing in the debris of...