Senate recognizes interim committee, supports forensic audit Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joy Yimebe Nunieh yesterday opened a can of worms on activities of the commission, insisting that some contractors were awarded contracts before their companies ...
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Amnesty International urges restraint ahead of funeral rites
Amnesty International (AI) has enjoined the Nigerian military and police to reduce the rising tension in Afara Ukwu, Abia State ahead of the 14 February 14, 2020 funeral of the parents of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The human rights group ...
Read More »Cross River deputy governor wants end to abuse, violence against women
Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Professor Ivara Esu, has advocated an end to abuse and violence against women in the country. He stated this when members of the Spotlight Initiative Team to eliminate violence against women and the girl ...
Read More »Blackworld Institute, CSOs write Sanwo-Olu, reject water privatisation in Lagos By Edu Abade
THE Institute of the Black World 21st Century and a host of African American civil society organisations (CSOs), including Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have written Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to stop any plans to privatise water in Lagos State. In ...
Read More »Eight reinstated Rivers permanent secretaries resume without offices
The eight permanent secretaries who were sacked by Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, but reinstated by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, have resumed work. The senior civil servants, who were sighted at the state secretariat, however, ...
Read More »Imo panel indicts Okorocha over contracts fraud
Imo State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts has indicted former Governor Rochas Okorocha over alleged fraudulent award of contracts during his time as governor. It, therefore, ordered the state Auditor General and the Auditor General for Local Governments to ...
Read More »EAD successfully carried out in nine councils of A’Ibom, says aide
Special Adviser to Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel on Political and Legislative Affairs, Sunny Ibuot, has declared that the National Population Commission (NPC) has successfully carried out Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in nine council areas of the state. He ...
Read More »FG to prosecute DisCos over illegal installations, construction of electrical parts
The Federal Government has said it is considering the prosecution of power distribution companies (DisCos) and individuals, who violate regulations in a bid to address poor electrical installations and construction in the country. Speaking at the launch of a new ...
Read More »Terrorist organisations using social media platforms to recruit disciples, says minister
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has declared that terrorist organisations now use social media platforms to recruit followers. Pantami disclosed this in Abuja, while delivering a lecture on Leadership in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Violent Extremism in Nigeria. ...
Read More »FG pledges speedy harmonisation of citizens’ identification data
The Federal Government promised speedy harmonisation of all citizens’ identification data in possession of various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to birth a single database. President Muhammadu Buhari had inaugurated the Committee on Citizen Data Management and Harmonisation sometime ago. ...
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