Members of the Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the House of Representatives have said Nigeria has been seized by kidnappers, bandits and terrorists, who extract ransoms from the poor and impoverished citizens and turn homesteads, hamlets, villages, towns and cities into killing fields under the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The […]
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Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested four suspected Internet fraudsters for allegedly killing their friend, aged 20. The suspects were arrested following a report at the Adigbe divisional police headquarters by the victim’s mother. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Wednesday, said the mother reported […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on Wednesday announced that it earned N2.56tn revenue from the sale of white products (petrol, kerosene, diesel) in about 13 months. It also announced that N203.73bn was made on the sale of white products in the month of July 2021 through its downstream subsidiary, the Petroleum Products Marketing Company. […]
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News Agency of Nigeria has deployed drones in six major areas of the country for a more effective coverage of events and activities. Speaking at the 2021 annual management retreat of the news agency in Ilorin on Wednesday, the Managing Director/CEO of NAN, Mr. Buki Ponle, said that the agency is poised to be more […]
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A former governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha, has asked youths to stop venting their anger on traditional rulers because of failure of governance in the state. He spoke on Wednesday, at Eziama Obierie in Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state, during the burial service of Jemaimah Nwosu, mother […]
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as FG approves N5.7b for water, agric projects President Muhammadu Buhari has launched Nigeria’s National Development Plan 2021-2025. The plan, which was approved by the Federal Executive Council earlier in November, was launched, yesterday, at the State House in Abuja. Prior to the public presentation of the official document, the Minister of Finance, Budget, and […]
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No fewer than 12, 547 COVID-19 patients are on admission at isolation and treatment centres across the country. The data obtained from the Nigeria Centres for Disease Control on Wednesday also showed that as of Tuesday, the country had recorded 847.44 per cent increase in COVID-19 cases within one month. This came to the fore […]
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Army spokesman, Brig-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu; the female soldier and the youth corps member Over 10,000 persons have signed two petitions domiciled on the Change.org platform, demanding the release of a female soldier, Private Sofiyat Akinlabi, who was detained by military authorities for accepting the marriage proposal of an unnamed corps member at the National Youth […]
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By Abimbola Adelakun Of all the arguments advanced by the Nigerian Army for punishing Private Hannah Sofiat Akinlabi, the soldier who accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend while at the NYSC camp, only one is sufficient. But first, let us do away with the ones that do not hold water. One, and according to […]
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• NNPC’s remittances to FAAC fall by N1.78tn The amount spent on subsidising Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, rose to N1.16tn between January and November this year, the latest data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited show. The data also revealed that NNPC’s remittances to the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee in the 11-month […]
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