By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 15 Headquarters Maiduguri, AIG Abdu Umar, has decorated ten (10) newly promoted officers of the Zonal headquarters. In attendance were departmental heads and family members of the newly promoted officers. A statement issued on...
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The Centre for Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to speed up investigations of its petition, requesting probe of Mr Timipre Sylva, immediate past minister of state for petroleum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the group...
The decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under President Bola Tinubu to float the naira is illegal and being challenged in court, human rights lawyer Femi Falana has said. On June 14, at a time when the naira traded between 730 and 755 to the dollar...
The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr Bashir Jamoh, has praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for creating the Marine and Blue Economy Ministry. Jamoh in a statement in Lagos on Friday, also appreciated the President for the appointment of Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo to...
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi has expressed sadness over the ill-fated Air Force helicopter that claimed 36 soldiers in Niger on Monday morning. Obi, the former Anambra governor made this know in a statement via his official X handle (formerly Twitter) in Lagos on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Damaturu – Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni has approved the payment of N667 million to 475 pensioners across the 17 local government areas of the state. The Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, Alhaji Mamman Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday....
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Ijaw Elders Forum (IEF), a coalition of Ijaw groups, has written to President Bola Tinubu to demand a review of procedures in disposal of vessels and trucks seized for complicity in oil theft. The letter, dated July 31 and sighted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday,...
Dr Reuben Abati, a former spokesperson to President Goodluck Jonathan; Mr Daniel Braie, the Managing Director, Linkage Assurance Plc and 100 others were on Thursday inducted as Fellows of the Nigerian Institute of Management Chartered (NIM). The President of NIM, Dr Christiana Atako, made this known at...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The apex socio-cultural organization in Kogi East Senatorial District, Uk’Omu Igala Organization (UIO), has sent a congratulatory message to Mr Shauibu Abubakar Audu, the newly designated Minister of Steel Development of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a statement issued on Thursday and...
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has given approval for the automatic replacement of medical doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who exit the state health facilities in search of greener pastures abroad. Dr AbdulRaheem Malik, the Executive Secretary, of the State Hospital Management Board, disclosed this on Thursday...
A report released by Save the Children International (SCI) has revealed that about 70 schools were attacked and 1,683 school children kidnapped across Nigeria between Feb 2014 and Dec. 2022. The report is entitled, “Education Under Attack: Review and Analysis of Attack on Schools, Teachers, and Learners from...
The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, says Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) are draining the country’s foreign reserves and revenue. Owasanoye said this on Thursday at a one-day hybrid sensitisation workshop on the published “Guidelines for Private Sector Response to Illicit...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – In a bid to create a forum for dialogue towards resolving issues surrounding the petrol subsidy removal across the States, the National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday constituted an Ad-hoc Committee to engage with the leadership of labour unions. The decision according to...
The Federal Government has approved N5bn for each state to enable them to procure food items for distribution to the poor in their respective states. Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State disclosed this at the Presidential Villa shortly after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja. ...
The Murtala Muhammed Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted items suspected to be dried shark fins and dried donkey genitals worth N1.22 billion at the Lagos airport. The command’s Area Controller, Comptroller Muhammed Yusuf, said this in a news conference in Lagos on Thursday....
The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Dauda Biu, has ordered immediate clampdown on all old and rickety vehicles across the country. Biu gave the directives in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Mr Bisi Kazeem, on Thursday in Abuja. The FRSC Corps Marshal said...
The Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NUPRC) has confirmed that search and rescue operations of Personnel on Board (POB) of Seplat Energy’s capsised drilling rig in Delta have started and are still on-going. The drilling rig had capsised while in transit and was partially submerged at about 5.00am...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo – The former President of Tiv Culture Social Association (TCSA) Elder Teghtegh Shaakaa has celebrated his 75 years birthday by initiating a peace forum to proffer solution to the incessant conflicts between Tiv and other tribes in Taraba State. The celebration which took...