Hearing of purported fake wedding video of President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, could not proceed yesterday due to inability of the complainant to tender the case file. The alleged mastermind ...
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FRSC cautions motorists against alteration of speed limit device
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned fleet operators who tamper with the calibrated Speed Limiting Devices in their vehicles to desist from such act or risk impoundment of their vehicles and subsequent compulsory re-installation and calibration of such ...
Read More »Benue governor Samuel Ortom vows to prosecute masterminds of Tiv/Jukun crisis
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said that those fomenting crisis in the state, no matter how highly placed, will be arrested and prosecuted. Ortom stated this at the Government House, Makurdi, when he received report from the commission of ...
Read More »Groups commend FG for gazetting tobacco control regulations
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have commended the Federal Government for gazetting the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Regulations 2019. Federal Ministry of Health gazette of the NTC Regulations 2019 ...
Read More »Tension in Edo as state government demolishes APC chieftain, Kabaka’s hotel
Tension heightened among members of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) as the state government demolished a hotel belonging a chieftain of the party, Tony Adun, popularly known as ‘Kabaka’ and loyalist to National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. The state ...
Read More »Southern, M’Belt leaders alert to importation of weaponised drones into Nigeria
Urge FG to probe incident at Lagos Airport Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) yesterday raised the alarm over alleged importation of weaponised drones into the country, purportedly meant for the Kaduna State government. While urging the Federal Government ...
Read More »FG eyes improved security, directs NCC to review SIM cards registration, makes NIN essential
In a bid to improve security in the country, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, yesterday directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to review SIM card registration policy and usage. To achieve the best ...
Read More »Community policing will end insecurity, says IGP Mohammed Adamu
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Adamu said the solution to insecurity in the country is to take policing back to the people at the grassroots level through community policing. He charged state governments to take responsibility by ensuring that they ...
Read More »Customs Intercept Over $6m USD at Lagos Airport by Jerry Aguigbo
The Nigeria Customs Service Murtala Muhammed International Airport has intercepted and seized $6.8million about to be flown out of Nigeria by unknown persons. Disclosing this in Lagos this Tuesday at the Airport in Lagos, Col.Hameed Ali( Rtd), who briefed the ...
Read More »Ekpenyong, Akpabio bicker over outcome of senatorial rerun poll
Representative of Akwa-Ibom North West Senatorial District, Christopher Ekpenyong and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, have continued to bicker over the outcome of the just-concluded rerun election. Ekpenyong, who spoke to State House Correspondents after his victory at ...
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