Sokoto, BoI Sign N2bn Industrial Development Fund
Sokoto government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bank of industry for the establishment of a N2 billion industrial development fund in the state. Speaking during the signing of the...
View ArticleEFCC quizzes Sterling Bank MD
Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, stormed the corporate head office of Sterling Bank Plc in Lagos. The EFCC officials were said to have interrogated the...
View ArticleFULANI HERDSMEN ATTACK DANSADAU TOWN IN ZAMFARA
▪military response led to the killing of 18 of them Troops of 223 Battalion, 1 Brigade Nigerian Army have averted another attack on Dansadau town by suspected cattle rustlers and armed bandits...
View ArticlePiracy, funding: Book publishers seek govt’s help
THE Association of Independent Publishers, Nigeria (AIPN) has called on governments at all levels to take measures that would help in turning around the fortune of the publishing industry in the...
View ArticleSoldiers, butchers clash in Aba over the killing of a butcher
Some soldiers clashed with butchers on Thursday afternoon in Aba, Abia State after a soldier brutally shot to death an innocent butcher. Soldiers have been used in recent times by agents of the Federal...
View ArticleNiger House of Assembly Suspends LG Chairman
The Niger State House of Assembly has suspended the chairman of Paikoro Local Government, John Maikarfi, for allegedly swearing in the wrong candidate for Kwakuti ward. APGA candidate Shuaibu Sani was...
View ArticleHouse Directs IG To Seal Kogi Assembly
The House of Representatives has once again directed the Inspector General of Police to seal the Kogi State House of Assembly complex pending when the crisis is resolved. This is one of the resolutions...
View ArticleN165bn Civil Servants Monthly Salaries Is High And Not Sustainable – Kemi...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun said on Thursday in Lagos that the N165 billion monthly salaries to federal civil servants was over-bloated and could no longer be sustained by government. The...
View ArticleEnugu Killings: Residents Flee Nimbo Town Despite Heavy Security Presence
Despite heavy security presence in Nimbo town in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State after the town was attacked by Fulani herdsmen, residents are fleeing their homes for neighbouring towns...
View ArticleGirls’ Non Access To Education Puts Them At Risk Of Trafficking-Aisha Buhari
Girls’ lack of access to education across the country puts them at risk of trafficking, exploitation and limits their prospects to excel in life, wife of President, Hajiiya, Aisha Buhari has said. She...
View Article Ikpeazu condemns Aba killing, says alleged killer soldier has been arrested
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, has condemned yesterday’s killing of a butcher allegedly by a soldier, in the Aba area of the state. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Godwin Adindu,...
View ArticleFUTA STUDENTS WIN NATIONAL MATHEMATICS COMPETITION
… TO REPRESENT NIGERIA IN BULGARIA Four Students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Nigeria will represent the country at the International Mathematics Competition (IMC) being...
View ArticleEducationBailout: NUT protests against exclusion of teachers
Friday Olokor, AbujaThe Nigeria Union of Teachers has protested against the exclusion of teachers in the payment of salaries from the 2015 bailout released to state governments.Rejecting what it...
View ArticleEU Encourages Intra Migration Amongst African Countries
The European Union is asking West African countries to encourage intra-migration among member states instead of migrating to Europe.According to the leader of the E.U delegation at a meeting with the...
View ArticleWe’ll sanitise NURTW —Agbede
The chairman of the Lagos State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede has expressed the commitment of his administration to sanitising the union in the...
View ArticleORTOM ASSURES OF AMICABLE RESOLUTION OF BSU CHARGES PROBLEM
Governor Samuel Ortom has assured students of the Benue State University that issues surrounding the recent increase in the institution’s conditional charges would soon be amicably resolved.Speaking on...
View ArticleUNFORTUNATE INCIDENT IN ABA
Press statement(May 05, 2016) 1. Our dear brothers and sisters, It is with heavy hearts that the state government received reports of the unfortunate incident at Aba abattoir today. Initial information...
View ArticleFinally, Buhari signs 2016 budget
The president’s assent to the budget is coming weeks after horse-trading between the presidency and the national assembly. In April, the national assembly transmitted details of the budget to the...
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Justice must be done
By Tubotamuno Dick On that fateful Saturday, 11th of April, 2015 when Smart Soberekon and Ipalibo Jackson were shot, I rushed both of them to Degema, the Buguma Hospital not functional and my friend,...
View ArticleInsecurity: Abia Moves to Deploy Bakassi Boys
With rising uneasiness over the menace of Fulani herdsmen, the governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has concluded plans to deploy the State Vigilante Services (AVS) popularly known as Bakassi...
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