Police Inspector General, Usman Baba on Monday ordered the deployment of two Units of Police Mobile Force (PMF), a Police Surveillance Helicopter and two cells of Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) to Plateau State. He described the deployment as part of the ongoing coordinated efforts at restoring public order in Rubuka and its environs, following the […]
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Students, lecturers and othere stakeholders in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN) have reacted to the recent online video that went viral over the alleged poor condition of Nkrumah Hostel in the institution. The people bared their minds on the issue in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka on Monday. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law, implying that he accepts the three per cent allocation to petroleum hosting communities which had stalled the passage of the bill in July after over a decade. This came weeks after the National Assembly passed the bill amid heated debates This was […]
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Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle Two staff and a student of Zamfara College of Agriculture and Animal Science, Bakura, Zamfara State,who were among the kidnapped victims in the school have escaped and returned to the college. Deputy Provost of the College, Ali Atiku, disclosed this to reporters on Monday. He said, “Two staff and […]
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Banji Ayoola Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Monday described the death of the member of the House Representatives, representing Akure South/North Federal Constituency, Hon Adedayo Omolafe, as shocking and devastating. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Richard Olatunde, to the governor the governor described the death as too difficult to accept; […]
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People run from a tear gas shot by Nigerian police officers during a mass looting of a warehouse that have COVID-19 food palliatives that were not given during lockdown to relieve people of hunger, in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 26, 2020. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) Endemic poverty, hunger and acute misery have struck […]
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Lagos State Health Service Commission (LSHSC) has commenced mass recruitment of clinical workers to fill existing vacancies and address manpower deficit in all public secondary health facilities in the state. This, it said, is in fulfilment of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s promise of making qualitative healthcare accessible to the residents of the State. The Permanent Secretary […]
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Nigeria has registered 541 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) as active cases continue to soar in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which made this known via its verified website on Monday morning, said the additional infections, though declined from the 655 recorded on Saturday, raised the cumulative cases to 182,503. The […]
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Constitutional lawyer Mike Ozekhome has confirmed being briefed by the family of murdered Super TV boss, Michael Ataga, to ensure they get justice. He confirmed his legal representation of the family to The Nation on Monday following enquiries to that effect. Asked if he was to watch brief on behalf of the family or whether […]
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Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance of the green zone area in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan’s 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) Victorious Taliban fighters […]
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