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The Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies have been commended for restoring sanity at the popular Fiong Aran Market in Ini Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa Ibom State. The council chairman, Israel Idaisin, who gave the commendation during ...

The unaccessed Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) matching grants to state governments currently stand at N73 billion, the Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has disclosed. He made the disclosure in his presentation to members of the House of Representatives Committee ...

As President Muhammadu Buhari has wooed investors into Nigeria’s oil and gas sector, international oil companies (IOCs) and other stakeholders in the industry expressed concern over the declining foreign direct investments (FDIs) into the country owing to government’s seeming unwillingness ...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has explained the delay in the submission of its 2014 to 2016 accounts. The clarification followed an inquiry by the National Assembly after the office of the Auditor General of the Federation had alleged ...

The House of Representatives has flayed the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) for allegedly concealing its internally generated revenue (IGR) between 2014 and 2019. The green chamber expressed its anger when the agency’s General Manager Finance, Mr. Peter Joshua, ...

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a middle-aged man, Ali Iyachi, of Shirgi village in Batsari Council of Katsina State. The incident occurred about 9pm on Tuesday when the victim was leaving neighbouring Garin-Zaki village. According to a resident, Iyachi ...

Kagote, the apex socio-cultural group in Ogoni comprising the four councils of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme of Rivers State, has said that Ogoniland cannot be developed without government’s support. President of the group, Emmanuel Deeyah, assured that the group ...

Amnesty International Nigeria (AIN) has accused Cross River State and the Federal Government of collaborating to manipulate the criminal justice system to unlawfully keep Agba Jalingo behind bars. The organisation, which on November 20, 2019, declared Jalingo, alongside other activists, ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 720-capacity hostel for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku while assuring NYSC authorities of the state government’s continued support to the scheme. The governor, who recalled the ...

Delta State Executive Council (Exco) has approved the Harmonised Rights of Pensioners, to ensure that retirees from Delta Civil Service live comfortably. It also approved more than N800 million as compensation for the land that would host Kwale Industrial Park ...