Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed support for the establishment of zonal, states and community security architecture to curb rising insecurity in the country. He cautioned that refusal to adopt novel means of securing lives and property across the ...
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Commonwealth solidarity offers enormous benefits to Africa, Buhari declares
President Mohammadu Buhari has declared that a renewed sense of Commonwealth solidarity offers enormous benefits to Africans in the Diaspora, especially those resident in Britain, Canada and Australia. He said the communities still maintain the strongest of cultural and family links with the countries from which they and ...
Read More »CUSTOMS CG CHALLENGES JOURNALIST ON REPORTING
One day training seminar for customs correspondents at the Customs Training College, Ikeja, Lagos Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) the Comptroller General of Customs, advised journalist to consider National interest and economy stability of the country, in the course of their ...
Read More »Samuel Adegboyega varsity committed to research for development, says VC
Vice Chancellor of Samuel Adegboyega University (SAU), Ogwa, Edo State, Prof. Babatunde Idowu, has said that stakeholders in and outside the institution are committed to improved research for academic excellence. Addressing journalists during his unveiling as the third substantive VC ...
Read More »NMA ex-president laments challenges of medical education
Former president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Professor Dominic Osaghae, has expressed worry over the increasing challenges facing medical education in the country. Describing them as unacceptable, he said they portend a bleak future for the medical profession. According ...
Read More »PMB attends UK-Africa investment summit in London
President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today for London to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit holding on Monday, January 20. President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in a statement in Abuja said the event would ...
Read More »Delta signs N2.4b erosion control as Assembly approves N5b for film village, park
Delta State government has doubled its effort in erosion control by signing a N2.4 billion contract, in partnership with the World Bank. A pact for the first of such control was signed between the state’s Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management ...
Read More »S’South group endorses probe of NDDC projects, threatens to expose fake contractors
The South-South Emerging Leaders Forum (SELF) has expressed support for the presidential directive for a forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement, its Coordinator, Preye Wilson, argued that the move to verify projects and contracts ...
Read More »Odubu, Airhiavbere, Ize-Iyamu, others urge Edo Governor, Obaseki to play by party rules
They’re professional governorship aspirants, PDP declares As crisis in Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lingers, stakeholders have urged Governor Godwin Obaseki to play by the party’s laws and rules. They made the call at a media ...
Read More »Governor Wike institutes N90m education trustfund to boost pupils’ performance In Rivers
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has established an Education Trust Fund worth N90m for nine pupils of basic education schools who emerge victorious in national educational competitions between 2015 and 2019. Speaking at a special reception for pupils of ...
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