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The Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda are threats to West Africa, where international efforts to counter terrorist groups are insufficient, Head of the United States (U.S.) Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Stephen Townsend, has said, citing Stars and Stripes reports. He stated this ...

Besides, Lagos State Coordinator of the Corps, Eddy Megwa, has mandated close monitoring and screening of all the 2020 Batch A corps members and camp officials to ensure that no incident of coronavirus was recorded at the orientation camp. Speaking ...

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), said it is taking proactive measures to prevent coronavirus as ‘Batch A’ corps members began orientation in camps across the country on Tuesday. There were insinuations that ...

Vice-Chancellor of the Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO), Professor Lawrence Ezemonye has stressed the need to shun financial impropriety and seek a robust financial sector to boost students’ interest in the study of Accounting in tertiary institutions. Ezemonye, who stated this ...

The embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has been shut out of the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) holding next Tuesday in Abuja. It was gathered that the decision, endorsed by the acting National ...

The House of Representatives has begun moves to criminalise the stigmatisation of victims of insurgency and militancy in the country. Accordingly, a bill sponsored by Ben Rollands Igbakpa to that effect yesterday scaled second reading during plenary. According to the ...

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Power to interface with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to investigate the 10-year blackout in Ife South Local Council of Osun State. The ...

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has disclosed that plans were afoot by stakeholders in the Niger Delta to meet in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to deliberate on the future of the oil-rich area. Addressing newsmen after the inauguration ...

A member of the House of Representatives, Solomon Bob, has faulted the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, over his comment in a recent live programme that Rivers State was not attracting federal projects, including the ongoing construction of rail lines ...

The European Union (EU) has earmarked two million Euros (about N794 million) to protect gorillas, better the livelihoods of 1,000 farmers as well as secure and manage the national park in Cross River. The state’s rainforest forms part of an ...