Governors under auspices of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) have described as worrisome, the huge unconstitutional deductions by the Federal Government from the Federation Account in spite of the increase in pump price. The governors also reiterated...
Barely 24 hours after an armed gang sacked a police station in Amichi, Nnewi South LGA, freeing detained suspects and making away with 14 AK 47 riffles, another gang has killed three police officers in Ukpor police station in the same Nnewi axis. The r...
Katsina State Government has approved the sum of five hundred and eighty-six million naira (N586.4M) as pension payment to the former governors of defunct Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, Alhaji Abba Musa Rimi and the first civilian governor of the st...
An early hour fire outbreak on Thursday at the Gambari Area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital has rendered about 100 residents homeless. The fire outbreak which sources said began at about 4:30am affected a residential building and three shops in the ...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Jamaátu Nasril Islam (JNI) Kaduna South chapter, have urged Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa to empower the teeming youths in the state as a way of reducing youth unemployment. A communiqué jointly signed...
An 18-year-old boy narrowly escaped being lynched yesterday by an angry mob for allegedly trying to kidnap some school children in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The incident which occurred at Amolaso area of the ancient town, according to an eye witness accoun...
Five additional students of Divine Wisdom Nursery and Primary School, Egbeda in Oyo State, yesterday lost their lives, bringing the casualty figure to eight the number of those who had died during a motor accident which occurred on Wednesday some kilom...
Security Operatives on Thursday seized 51 rocket launchers in a house in Barunde area of Gombe metropolis being used to manufacture rockets and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the raid, carried out by ...
Mali's military junta, worried that about 40 political parties and civil society organisations in the country have shunned its national convention, Thursday postponed the dialogue. According to a statement, issued by the National Committee for the ...
A Patent Medicine Dealer in Imo, Mr Edward Okere, has appealed to NAFDAC to check the indiscriminate use of fake numbers on drugs sold to the public. Okere made the appeal in Owerri on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He ...
The Zamfara Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Akila Gwary, has urged officers and men of the command to eschew corruption and build public trust in the force. Gwary made the appeal in Gusau on Thursday at the opening of a two-day conference for Police Ima...
The National Economic Council on Thursday directed the Federal and State Governments to make specific laws criminalising bunkering and pipeline vandalism to save the nation from revenue loss. The council made the decision at its meeting presided over b...
The Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr Paul Orhii, has expressed happiness over the WHO endorsement of the Integrated Medical Industry in Rivers, which produces syringes and other medical products. Orhii made the remark on Thursday at Rumuosi, near Port Harc...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu on Thursday restated Federal Government’s increased commitment towards enhanced healthcare delivery in the country. Chukwu made this known in Abuja at the 67th meeting of the Association of Chief Exe...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the suspension of some programmes at University of Abuja is taken to sanitise the sector. Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, the National President of ASUU told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thu...