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  The Nigeria Customs Service Kwara state on Friday sensitize stakeholders including textiles, shoes, veils and market women associations on the importance of continuous border closure in the Country Comptroller Mohammed Uba Garba the Coordinator Joint Border Operations Drill sector ...

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has declared that oil-producing states deserved more than 13 per cent derivation from the Federation Account. Speaking when members of Post-Mortem Sub-Committee of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), led by Mr. Kabir Mashi, visited ...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said the refusal by the Federal Government to address grievances of ethnic nationalities was encouraging violent agitation. The group’s factional leader, Fegalo Nsuke, stated that unresolved issues, such as ...

National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Rev Dr. Felix Omobude, has urged Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole to end their political differences in order to engender peace and development of the state. ...

Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kebbi State, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed has said the scheme has been in constant touch with the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and Federal Ministry of Health to protect corps members against ...

A human rights group, Extra Step Initiative (EIS) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a judicial inquest into the recent police murder of Nigerian citizens in Rivers and Ogun states. In a petition to the President, it insisted that ...

A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, has sued President Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the National Assembly over submission of the 2019 and 2020 budget estimates of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC). ...

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege has charged the leadership of the country to see the slump in crude oil price due to outbreak of coronavirus pandemic as a wake-up call for Nigeria to look towards an economy without oil. The ...

In spite of being blessed with abundant solid minerals, the sector has only contributed N400 billion to the Nigerian economy in 12 years. A Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report showed that the industry posted N69.47 billion to the ...

The Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment yesterday announced Nigeria’s readiness to host the inaugural Afrika Business and Investment Forum (AFRIBIF) 2020. According to the Director of Investment Promotion in the ministry, Mrs Olukemi Arodudu, the event would hold ...