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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) alongside with the Nigeria Security and Defence Corps (NSCDC) have decided to recreate and strengthen their  partnership in various areas; specially for the operation of fighting against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. According to the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the renewal of partnership…

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the newly integrated Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC), on the need to be committed, accountable and transparent in order to ensure strict compliance with Corporate Governance principles. Buhari made this known on Friday at the State House, Abuja, while inaugurating the Board, chaired by Margery Okadigbo. The President…

The governing body of the National Assembly Staff called the Parliament Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has issued a memo of industrial action to begin on Monday 10th of January, 2022 over outstanding minimum wage payments. This was revealed after a joint NASS/NASC congress, which was held in Abuja. Copies of the memo were issued…

Yesterday, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) announced that war has been declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) based on their recent ban of the transportation of Northern livestock to the East and singing of the national anthem in Southeastern schools. As a direct retaliation to IPOB, the pan-Nothern socio-political organization have commenced plans…

In the late hours of yesterday, a group of gunmen  reported to be heavily armed stormed the Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State and bombed the Police Headquarters in Dikenafai. They also released the detainees in the facility. According to an eyewitness, an unnamed vigilante group was present at the scene to rearrest…

For the second day in a row, President Muhammadu Buhari personally engaged the media on important national issues, this time in a special interview conducted by Cyril Stober of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Thursday 6th January 2022 which was aired by 8pm. The interview was monitored by the Journal and excerpts are presented…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) generated the sum of N2.240 trillion in 2021. The sum, according to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Agency, Joseph Attah, exceeded the target of N1. 678 trillion, set for the year by a margin of 33.49% He added in a statement that 2021’s collection was also about 43.45%…

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to work with Mali within the requirements of the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS). Buhari disclosed this on Thursday, when he received a Special Envoy from Col. Assimi Goita, the transitional president of Mali. The team led by Col. Abdoulaye, Mali’s minister of territorial administration and decentralization,…

 The Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, has inducted another set of 32 doctors into the medical profession for the 2020/2021 academic session from the institution’s college of medicine. While addressing the audience at the event, the registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria(MDCN), Dr Tajudeen Sanusi,  congratulated the new inductees for the successful…

Some unknown gunmen have abducted three Chinese workers while also killing two locals staffs in at a hydropower dam project in Zungeru in the Wushishi Local Government Area of Niger State. This was confirmed in a statement made available by the  police spokesperson in Niger state, Wasiu Abiodun, on Thursday. According to him, workers on…