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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has blamed the current fuel scarcity in Abuja on panic buying and hoarding of the product. Mr Fidel Pepple, acting Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, told the News a...
A Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday sentenced a self-acclaimed pharmacist, Liasu Assane, to three months imprisonment for swindling a Japanese national, Takehiko Arima, of 3,420 US dollars (about N547,200). Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo convic...
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday said that Nigeria’s progress had been stalled because its leaders had veered from the foundations of patriotism and integrity-driven leadership. A statement on Tuesday in Abuja quoted Ekwer...
The Deputy Governor of Kogi, Mr Yomi Awoniyi, said on Monday in Lokoja that the government planned to build low-income houses for some flood victims in the state. Awoniyi told newsmen that the state's Ministry of Lands and Housing had been directed...
Gov Peter Obi of Anambra has called for proper empowerment of youths to improve the country’s gross domestic product. Speaking when members of Team Six, Course 21, of the National Defence College, Abuja, paid him a courtesy visit in Awka on Monda...
Alhaji Abubakar Lawal, Manger of Sultan Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto, said 16,584 pilgrims from Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states travelled from the airport to Saudi Arabia in 33 flights. Lawal told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) i...
Mr Vincent Aquah, the Director-General, Cross River Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said on Monday that fire had destroyed property worth N500 million since the beginning of the year. Aquah made the fact known while distributing relief materials to...
The Director -General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), Chief Olusegun Runsewe, on Monday in Abuja urged Nigerians to showcase the country’s rich cultural heritage wherever they go Runsewe made the appeal when he received a ...
The Nigeria Immigration Service, Katsina State Command, said on Monday that it had rescued six Cameroonians suspected to be victims of human trafficking. Alhaji Umar Bulama, the state Controller of Immigration, paraded the suspected victims...
Katsina State government says it has constructed 832 kilometres of roads as part of its urban expansion programme aimed at laying a solid foundation for economic advancement of the state. Gov. Ibrahim Shema made this known on Sunday in Katsina when he ...
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Sunday confirmed an early morning blast along Bama road in Maiduguri. JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, told newsmen in Maiduguri that the blast did not record any casualty. ``It is true ...
Chief Williams Mkpa, a community leader in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom, has called on the state government to take proactive steps to avert flood disasters in coastal communities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that recent reports from the Nigerian Mete...
Alhaji Ismaila Umar, the Director, South-South Zonal Office of National Directorate of Employment (NDE), says that the agency has put measures in place to create more employment for youths in the state. Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Cal...
Mr Yomi Awoniyi, the Deputy Governor of Kogi, said that the Federal Government had approved plans to relocate some flood victims to Federal Government Housing Estates in Ajaokuta and Lokoja. The deputy governor disclosed this in a statement issued by h...
The former governor of Kano state, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau was busy stealing money when he was ruling the state between 2003 and 2011, says Mr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the present governor of the state. Speaking with reporters during the US-Nigeria Inf...