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President Muhammadu Buhari has again directed security agencies to urgently address the resurgence of kidnapping and other crimes on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway and on other roads across the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said the president gave the directive while presiding over the meeting of the National Security Council, held at the Presidential…
The Defence Headquarters has said Nigerian troops eliminated more than 128 bandits and arrested 64 others in different operations across North West and North Central zones in the past two weeks. Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while giving updates of military operations between Nov. 11 and Nov. 25 on Thursday…
The Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) has called for an intensive media involvement and sensitisation on its operations for nuclear safety and radiological protection in the country. Dr Yau Idris, NNRA Director-General and Chief Executive Officer made the call on Wednesday in Abuja while opening its fifth National Workshop for Correspondents on Nuclear Safety and…
The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has been urged to address the demands of 221 National Assembly (NASS) staff recruited in 2018 who have allegedly been captured in every budget since 2019 but has never been paid. The 221 individuals demanded for the documentation and assumption of duties as legally employed staff by the commission…
Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, Chairman, Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mine, Steel Development and Metallurgy, has called for special funding towards reactivating the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi. He stated this on Thursday while presenting the 2022 budget report of his committee to the Senate Appropriation Committee. Al-Makura (APC-Nasarawa) stressed the importance of the solid minerals…
Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector has contributed N8.13tillion to real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the nine months to September 2021. According to data collated from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS’) reports the sector is composed of the four activities of telecommunications and information services; publishing; motion picture, sound recording and music production;…
Anambra State government has described the announcement of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that it has placed Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State on its watch list as politically motivated. The state government said in its reaction that the EFCC knows full well that it is acting inelegantly and alleged the anti-graft agency…
I had called his mobile line one Thursday afternoon in June 2016, but he didn’t pick the call. So I left a message for him. At about 11pm on that same day, I was getting set to go to bed when my phone rang. On the other end was Malam Mamman Daura, a figure of…
The Senate, Trade Union Congress, Nigeria Labour Congress have disagreed with the Federal Government’s plan to remove fuel subsidy next year and replace it with a N5,000 monthly transport grant to 40 million Nigerians. While the Senate said there was no provision for such grant in the 2022 budget, TUC expressed shock that government could…
The FCT Primary Health Care Board (FPHCB) has urged Nigerians to disregards the myths surrounding the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. Mr Francis Okonkwo, Health Education Officer of the board made the call while delivering a lecture at a one-day media orientation workshop on COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign. He noted that all the myths on…
