Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Muhammadu Abubakar, former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Usman Bugaje and other Northern leaders have blamed the lingering security challenges on government’s failure to act decisively. They stated this, while reviewing the security challenges ...
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President Buhari pledges continued support for military to tackle insecurity
President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured the Armed Forces that his administration will continue to fund and equip the military to effectively tackle challenges of insecurity in the country. Buhari stated this at the unveiling of two Agusta 109 Power and ...
Read More »President Buhari to commission three new factories in Cross River
President Muhammadu Buhari will later this month visit Cross River State to commission three new industries built by the state government. The factories are the Cross River noodles factory, the fertiliser factory and the chicken processing plant. Buhari will be ...
Read More »NAF launches Operation Rattle Snake III, destroys ISWAP hideout in Borno State
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole, has launched ‘Operation Rattle Snake III‘ against terrorists in the North East. According to a statement signed by NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, ...
Read More »Minister of Water Resources seeks group’s support against open defecation
Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has solicited the support of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Nigeria chapter, to achieve an Open Defecation-Free society by 2025. Adamu, who said this yesterday in Abuja when the society’s president, Ajose Otinwa, ...
Read More »Finally, Awka gets Court of Appeal division
After many years of waiting, Awka in Anambra State has joined cities in the country that host an appellate court. In a historic ceremony yesterday in Awka, Governor Willie Obiano played host to the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice ...
Read More »Hearing on President Buhari’s purported wedding stalls
Hearing of purported fake wedding video of President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, could not proceed yesterday due to inability of the complainant to tender the case file. The alleged mastermind ...
Read More »FRSC cautions motorists against alteration of speed limit device
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned fleet operators who tamper with the calibrated Speed Limiting Devices in their vehicles to desist from such act or risk impoundment of their vehicles and subsequent compulsory re-installation and calibration of such ...
Read More »Groups commend FG for gazetting tobacco control regulations
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have commended the Federal Government for gazetting the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Regulations 2019. Federal Ministry of Health gazette of the NTC Regulations 2019 ...
Read More »Southern, M’Belt leaders alert to importation of weaponised drones into Nigeria
Urge FG to probe incident at Lagos Airport Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) yesterday raised the alarm over alleged importation of weaponised drones into the country, purportedly meant for the Kaduna State government. While urging the Federal Government ...
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