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The Kalaekuleama Community in Degema Council of Rivers State has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai to probe Army’s invasion of the community. They accused operatives of the Operation Delta Safe of razing their ...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved N4.9 billion to address the paucity of indigenous tertiary textbooks and other academic publications in the nation’s higher education sector. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Professor Elias Bogoro, who disclosed this in Abuja ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government has decried the slow pace of work on the demarcation of its boundary with Cross River State, saying the situation has continued to fuel inter-state carnage and avoidable loss of lives. Addressing a joint meeting ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) is at loggerheads with the Cross River State government over the latter’s interference in its internal affairs. IPMAN in the state, for quite some time now, has been in a leadership tussle, ...

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde is to establish an emergency communication centre for distress calls on security and other issues of urgent concerns in the state. The governor dropped the hint when he received the management of the Nigerian Communications ...

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been named honorary president of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) after steering the network in the last two years as president. The network’s new president, Dr. Maria ...

The Kebbi Development Forum (KDF) has appealed to Governor Atiku Bagudu to ensure full participation of women in the state’s local council polls holding on October 26,2019. Chairman of the forum, Professor Danladi Sahabi, who made the call at a ...

Following the readiness of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to deploy special squad to combat the recurring spate of insecurity in South West, the Nigerian Army has assured of its commitment to complement the police. General Officer ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessors in office, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), have canvassed concerted action against the spread of cancer in the country. They spoke at the launch of the Henry Seriake ...

The Progressive Governors Forum has criticised the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the party’s ‘diminishing fortunes’. Its Director-General, Salihu Lukman, in a letter entitled, “APC: Appeal for Reconciliation”, dated August 6, 2019, and ...