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The Nigerian Navy has said 10 crewmembers of the Turkish-flagged general cargo vessel, MV PAKSOY 1, attacked by pirates at the weekend in the Niger Delta was still missing. Waylaid South West of Brass, the naval high command said the ...

Nigeria is to supply 10 per cent of India’s crude oil requirements in the face of competing for the demand for the product from other countries. Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, dropped the ...

Former Governor of Gombe State, Danjuma Goje has declared that the Federal Government withdrew corruption charges against him to save face. Goje, who withdrew from the Senate Presidency race shortly before the June 11, 2019 inauguration of the Ninth National ...

The Kwara State House of Assembly has set a five-man Ad-Hoc Committee to probe illegal acquisition of government property by individuals in the state. This followed matter of general public importance on the sudden change of government-owned Tourist Kitchen to ...

Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has appointed Chief Eze Duruiheoma as Chairman of a five-man panel to investigate alleged corruption against former council chairmen and political appointees under former Governor Rochas Okorocha. Other members of the committee to probe Okorocha’s ...

Yoruba youths urge Shiites to stay away from Lagos Business activities were grounded, as several shops in Kaduna remained closed, while many people stayed indoors, following the arraignment of Shiites leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zinat at the ...

Nigeria raises monitoring, surveillance at entry points, NCDC advises on prevention The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). ...

The Senate has resolved to henceforth engage donor agencies that give humanitarian assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the country to make commitments to accountability on their donations. It said it would do this through the National Planning Commission ...

The Edo Government has insisted that the House of Representatives lacked the constitutional powers to shut the state House of Assembly. The Governor Godwin Obaseki administration was responding to a resolution of the lower chamber of the National Assembly ordering ...

The Senate has passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to redouble efforts towards extending the nation’s continental shelf. Citing Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Nigeria, had in May 2009, written ...