Muhammad Babandede, Comptroller-General, NIS, disclosed that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) issued 20,000 10-year enhanced e-passports in the month of June in Abuja on Friday at the official decoration of four senior officers promoted to the rank of Deputy Comptroller- ...
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CGC Strike Force, Zone ‘A’ battles against smuggling through water-ways
The Nigeria Customs Service CGC Strike Force, Zone ‘A’ has taken a new dimension considering the recent onslaught against economic saboteurs within the zone. It has become the battle against smuggling and it’s vices by the Deputy Comptroller of Customs ...
Read More »WTP Expresses concern over rate of extrajudicial killings in Rivers
We The People, (WTP), a non-governmental organization, has expressed concern over the rate of reported extrajudicial killings in Rivers State. The group alleged that over 152 persons were killed between the months of April, May and June 2019 in the ...
Read More »Don canvasses establishment of more medical varsities.
Professor Friday Okonofua, the Vice Chancellor, University of Medicine, Ondo State, has pointed the need for establishment of more medical universities to improve the nation’s healthcare system. He made the assertion at the seventh Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe Memorial Lecture ...
Read More »CUPP sues President Buhari over ‘illegal stay’ of aides in office.
A legal action has been constituted against President Muhammadu Buhari and some of his key appointees at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) over what is called the “continued illegal stay in office ...
Read More »Reps finally settle for Doguwa, Elumelu as principal officers, PDP insists on Chinda, summons minority leader, others.
Alhassan Ado Doguwa has been chosen by the House of Representatives to occupy the seat of the House Leader in deference to the directive of the Adams Oshiomhole-led All Progressives Congress (APC). The decision, recently, put paid to speculations that ...
Read More »Quacks threatening journalism practice, says Prof. Wilson.
Desmond Wilson, a professor of Mass Communication, has decried the ‘increasing number of quacks’ in Nigeria’s media industry, describing the situation as a threat to the journalism profession and national unity. The former Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of ...
Read More »Adamawa State PDP flays senator Abbo’s assault on woman.
Serious concern has been expressed over the Adamawa State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) over representative of Adamawa North Senatorial district on its platform, Elisha Ishaku Abbo, who assaulted a nursing mother at a sex toyshop in Abuja. Addressing journalists in ...
Read More »Ex-Air Force chief, Amosu, others seek plea bargain in alleged N21 billion fraud.
Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd.), Former Chief of Air Staff, and two others, told Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, that they were ready for a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). They ...
Read More »Sub-standard products of Nigeria to be gotten rid of – SON vows By PRINCE DAVIES.
Osita Aboloma, the Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), has vowed to rid the country of sub-standard products. Aboloma, said this at a one-day National Stakeholders’ Sensitisation Forum in Kaduna yesterday, he also cautioned Nigerians against patronising ...
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