Ex-NNPC GGM backs FG on Confab no-go areas
Ahead of the commencement of the upcoming National Conference, a health and safety expert and former Group General Manager, Special Projects Division of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,...
View ArticleLenten season:Gov Ahmed felicitates with Christians
As Christians begin this year’s Lenten season, Governor of KwaraState,AlhajiAbdulfatah Ahmed has urged Christian faithful to use the occasion to pray fervently for the restoration of peace in the...
View ArticleForum exonerates PEF on fuel scarcity
Nigerian Youth Oil & Gas Forum has described allegations that the Petroleum Equalisation Fund, PEF and Petroleum Pricing and Marketing Company, PPMC are responsible for the long queues in filling...
View ArticleNational hospital deserted due to strike
The usually busy National Hospital Abuja was on Wednesday a shadow of itself as the strike embarked upon by some of its workers entered its seventh day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...
View ArticleN1.7bn subsidy fraud: Defence raises “No Case” submission
A Federal High Court in Lagos, yesterday, fixed March 28 to decide on a no-case submission raised by the defence, in the trial of an Oil Marketer charged with N1.7 billion fuel subsidy frauds. The...
View ArticleGov. Yero signs Appropriation Act
Gov. Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State on Thursday signed into law, the 2014 Appropriation Act, allowing the administration to spend over N200.9 billion during the year. The governor’s assent came few hours...
View ArticleImmigration says 7,390 Nigerians repatriated in 2013
Mr David Parradang, the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, on Thursday in Abuja said 7,390 Nigerians were repatriated from foreign countries in 2013. Parradang made this known when he...
View ArticleNSCDC hands over 5,500 litres of stolen petrol to NNPC
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps says it has handed to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, over 5,500 litres of petrol it recovered from suspected vandals. This is contained in a...
View ArticleCommunity banishes 25-year-old man for raping mother of 6
The Osogun community of Iseyin Local Government Area Oyo State has banished a middle-aged man, Rasheed Opadijo, for allegedly raping a housewife and mother of six. The community head, Mr Samuel...
View ArticleEU freezes assets of ousted Ukrainian leader and 17 others
The European Union on Thursday froze the assets of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, those of former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and 16 other senior Ukrainian officials. They were...
View ArticleFCT: AMAC chairman urges adherence on immunisation
Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Honourable Micah Jiba has called on residents of the council to ensure the immunisation of all eligible children. Hon Jiba, who stated this at Damagaza...
View ArticleAgain, drug dealers drag FG to court
Drug dealers in the country have again dragged the Federal Government, FG to court to challenge the issuance of another guideline alleged to be inhibiting their business operation. The dealers under...
View ArticleNo more room for thuggery in Zamfara – CP
ZAMFARA State Police Commissioner, CP, Ahmed Ibrahim has declared total war against political thuggery in the state, saying any person arrested no matter what party he belongs will be made to face the...
View ArticleFCT to use SWF for priority projects
Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Muhammed said plans his has concluded plans to use money from the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, to augment the FCT Authority lean budget with a view to...
View ArticleWhy we’re winning war against crime in Ondo – IGP
INSPECTOR General of Police, IGP, Mr Muhammed Abubakar has described Ondo State Police Command as one of the best police formations in the country, saying the Command has been proactive, efficient and...
View ArticleMinister assures vigorous tackling of environmental challenges
Newly appointed Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam has said that she is keying into the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan with a view to ensuring that erosion,...
View ArticlePolice probe fisherman’s murder
HOMICIDE detectives at Igbokoda, the headquarters of Ilaje local government of Ondo State are currently working on the theories surrounding the gruesome murder of a man identified as Omomega Ewarawon,...
View ArticleFCT budgets N6bn for primary health care
The Ministry of Federal Capital Territory said on Thursday that it budgeted over N6 billion for primary health care service delivery in the FCT over the next three years. The Minister of State for FCT,...
View ArticleObasanjo heads AU Inquiry Commission on S/Sudan
The African Union Commission (AUC) has appointed Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo to head its five-member Commission of Inquiry into the human right abuses in the Republic of South Sudan....
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