To douse the fear of contracting Coronavirus, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Yahaya has convened a stakeholders meeting to commence an awareness campaign on prevention of the disease. Addressing the stakeholders at the state Ministry of Health in Lafia, ...
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UNICEF urges people to seek information from trusted sources
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has cautioned people against relying on information from social media about the Coronavirus pandemic that cannot be trusted. In a statement by its Communication Officer, Blessing Ejiofor, it urged the people to only trust ...
Read More »Ex-agitators push for amnesty coordinator of Akwa Ibom origin
Ex-agitators Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a qualified indigene of Akwa Ibom State origin as the next Special Adviser/National Coordinator of the programme. Leader of the forum, Comrade Imoh Stephen Okoko, in ...
Read More »South-South governors set for regional security outfit, to reposition BRACE Commission
The South-South Governors Forum has resolved to revive the BRACE Commission to tackle insecurity and developmental issues in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, saying they had agreed as a zone that there was a need to have a regional security ...
Read More »We needs new constitution,Nigeria may not survive in another civil war, OBJ
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday canvasses for a new constitution for the country as against an amended one. Hailed the Southwest governors for what he called their courage in establishing the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) Operation Amotekun to ...
Read More »Admit us in port, and we will stop chasing fake products in markets and warehouse
The Director-General of Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) Mr Osita A bolo ma disclosed in a one day Stakeholders forum Organized by the agency recently in Lagos in A papa that he wants (SON) to come back to the ports. ...
Read More »‘It takes five years to get justice in Rivers high court’
Borno, Katsina, Kebbi top table of speedy adjudication of cases A national ranking to measure the speed of justice delivery at states high courts has ranked Rivers State as the slowest in justice delivery, as it takes at least five ...
Read More »Cross River consumers reject planned increase in electricity tariff
ELECTRICITY consumers in Calabar, Cross River State have rejected planned increase in tariff, insisting that power supply is still too low to justify any increment. Speaking at the Public Forum for customers of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) ...
Read More »Wike urges commissioners interested in ethnic politics to resign
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has advised commissioners serving in his administration who are interested in playing ethnic politics to resign. He gave the charge at Government House, Port Harcourt while swearing-in the nine commissioners who were screened and ...
Read More »Supreme Court’s ruling on Bayelsa incompatible with democratic norms, APC insists
Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has castigated the People Democratic Party (PDP) over its recent comment, insisting that imposing Douye Diri as governor is incompatible with democratic norms. In a statement credited to its state Secretary, ...
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