The Federal Government has assured families of victims of last weekend’s attack on the Kajuru Castle Resort in Kaduna State of ensuring that the killers are prosecuted. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, ...
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House of Representatives seeks end to Tiv, Jukun crisis
The House of Representatives yesterday urged security agencies to arrest perpetrators of the killings in Taraba State due to crisis between Tiv and Jukun nationalities with a view to prosecuting them. The House also sought thorough investigation to unravel those ...
Read More »Nigeria needs cost effective tariff for steady power supply, says AfDB president
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, yesterday said Nigeria should evolve a more efficient and effective tariff structure to achieve constant electricity supply in the country. Adesina made the assertion, while speaking to State House Correspondents ...
Read More »ASUU flays proposed Buhari varsity, says project disastrous
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the proposed plan to establish a private university after President Muhammadu Buhari by his wife, Aisha, as a disaster. It stated that the motive confirmed why the Nigerian leader had allegedly ...
Read More »Nigeria, Saudi Arabia meet to boost oil sector ties, others
Nigeria’s petroleum downstream sub-sector, especially refineries, pipelines and others may witness a major overhaul following ongoing talks between the Federal Government and the Saudi authorities in Riyadh. The Minister of Energy Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi ...
Read More »Delta state government intervenes to avert 90,000 barrels per day shut-in
The Delta State government has waded into a face-off between an oil firm and the over 112 oil-bearing Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri communities in the Oil Mining Lease 30 to avert an economic crisis that could result in shut-in ...
Read More »PDP rejects Oyewole’s membership of Osun State guber election appeal panel
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the inclusion of Justice J.O.K Oyewole as a member of the Osun State Governorship Election Appeal Tribunal. Speaking at a media briefing yesterday, its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said, “The party’s position ...
Read More »Nasarawa gets two panels for election tribunal cases
President of the Court of Appeal has constituted two election tribunals to handle election petition cases in Nasarawa State. Secretary of the National and State Assembly Election Petitions, Bello Mukhtar, who disclosed this yesterday in Lafia, said another panel was ...
Read More »Provost refutes alleged misappropriation of funds at TASCE
Provost of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Dr. Adeola Kiadese, has denied spending millions of Naira from the institution’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to buy gifts for imams and pastors during festivities. Based on the allegation, staff members under ...
Read More »Buhari laments killing of youths, security agents in Gombe
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed grief over the killing of some Christian youths during an Easter procession on Sunday night in Gombe and reprisal attack on security officials allegedly responsible for the incident. Describing the killings as “very unfortunate,” the ...
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