Management of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State, has said it may seek National Assembly’s assistance to address its funding challenges to enable it to live up to its billing. In spite of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ...
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Middle Belt Forum tasks President Buhari on insecurity in Borno, North East
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to see his being booed in Borno State as a wake-up call to do the needful by rejigging the country’s security architecture with a view to ending insurgency in the ...
Read More »Senate pledges commitment to end terrorism, names Ekerenmadu, Manager N’Assembly ‘indigenes’
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has restated determination of the Ninth National Assembly to find lasting solutions to the terrorism and insecurity in the country in collaboration with the executive arm of government. Lawan stated this in Malumfashi, Katsina State, at ...
Read More »Bush fire-induced auto crash kills five in Edo State
Five persons, including three employees of Okomu Oil Palm, were at the weekend burnt to death in a road accident that occurred along Iguobazuwa highway in Ovia South West Local Council of Edo State. The crash, involving an 18-seater bus ...
Read More »Okowa, Omo-Agege seek arrest, trial of killers of eight persons in Delta community
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has commended military and police personnel for their prompt intervention in the clash between suspected herdsmen and Uwheru communities in Ughelli North Local Council of Delta State. He, however, expressed sadness over the death of over eight ...
Read More »FG rules out refund for Cross River’s N20b road projects as state govt promises to deliver highway in April
The Federal Government has ruled out refunding the N20 billion the Governor Ben Ayade administration is spending on the Tinapa-Odukpani junction dual carriage and the Odukpani junction spaghetti flyover in Cross River State. The state has in the past two ...
Read More »HURIWA urges truce between Amnesty, military over report
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the military to find a way of cultivating working partnerships and relationships with international groups in Nigeria, particularly the Amnesty International (AI). It said there was no need for ...
Read More »Bashir Tofa deplores pervasive poverty, illiteracy in Kano
The candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) in the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Alhaji Usman Bashir Tofa, at the weekend decried the pervasive poverty and illiteracy in Kano, stating that the development was adversely affecting the ...
Read More »President hinges nation’s growth on stable academic calendar
President Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the need for universities to maintain a stable academic calendar for the attainment of national development goals owing to the key role they have to play in bring the aspiration to fruition. He made the ...
Read More »Why bandits attacked, killed over 30 persons in Katsina villages, by Masari as Buhari condemns reprisals, orders arrest of perpetrators
Governor Aminu Masari has offered an insight into what led to the attacks and killing of over 30 persons by unknown gunmen on Friday evening at Tsayau and Dankar villages in Batsari Local Council of Katsina State. The mayhem, perpetrated ...
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