They can’t be contacted, says NRC Terrorists phone five hostages’ families Angry Reps pass vote of no confidence in security chiefs Police defuse IED at train station •Panic in FCT, Kaduna-Abuja road The fog over the number of passengers on the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train, who are missing, is getting clearer. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) […]
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Seven commissioners and the Chief of Staff to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Festus Agas, have resigned from the Delta State Executive Council. Their resignation was triggered by Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022, which stipulates that political appointees must resign their appointments before participating in the 2023 general elections, either as delegate or elective […]
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Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu Lagos State Government has announced that the state will experience 243 days of 1,750mm of rainfall in 2022 and it has put measures in place to tackle flooding. The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, disclosed this on Thursday during a press briefing on the 2022 […]
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A pastor with The Apostolic Church, Umuahia, Salem Chigozirim, has been arraigned before a High Court sitting at Umuahia, Abia State, for allegedly strangling a 45-year-old housewife, Virginia Ndife, and a lady, Chioma Nwoke. He was arraigned on three counts bordering on murder and demanding a ransom. Chigozirim was said to have strangled Virginia on […]
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For long a menace, beggars are lately overrunning the streets and public spaces in Lagos. Their unchallenged dominance in the nooks and crannies of the state has become an emerging security and environmental threat. The Lagos State Government should shake off its lethargy and take strong action to address this abnormality. It is not for […]
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Benue State Government, on Thursday, said about two million displaced Nigerians are now in the eight official and 20 unofficial internally displaced persons’ camps in the state. The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency and Maintenance Agency, Dr Emmanuel Shior, said the increase in the number of IDP camps in the state was a result […]
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Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami The Federal Government has said it is ready to enforce the implementation of its National Identification Number–Subscriber Identity Module policy as the deadline for the verification exercise ended on Thursday (yesterday). However, it has given telecommunication subscribers a couple of days to ensure that their SIMs are […]
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Governor is too civil, democratic to do that – Akeju Campaign organisation for the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday, accused Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of using the state advertising agency to prevent the opposition candidate from erecting his billboard in the state. A statement by Olawale Rasheed, the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja called on parents and religious leaders to caution their youths against the recent spate of murder, kidnappings and sexual assault by rival cult groups in Ogun State. This was after he ordered the police and other law enforcement agencies to confront head-on, groups seeking to destroy peace and […]
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As Jonathan insists no nation can progress without unity, peace Presidential aspirant and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, on Thursday said the trouble with Nigeria since independence was a failure of leadership. He stated this while speaking at the formal inauguration of the National Executive Council of Nigeria Ethnic Nationalities Youth Leaders […]
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