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The Social Integrity Network (SINET) has blamed incessant insurgency and armed banditry in the country on cancellation of pre-shipment inspection at the nation’s seaports by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Its National Coordinator, Ibrahim Isah, who stated this at a ...

Governor Babagana Zulum has linked the protracted Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State to porous borders linking Nigeria with neighbouring Chad, Cameroun and Niger republics. The governor made the submission while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja after a meeting ...

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has identified consistent involvement and inclusion of youths in policy formulation, implementation and collaboration among government agencies, as a solution to Nigeria’s poor Global Youth Development Index (GYDI). Nigeria ranked 141st in the 2016 GYDI, 156th in ...

Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has insisted that his administration left N 5.7b in a bank account to offset retirees’ entitlements. Okorocha, who spoke with journalists at his residence in Owerri, maintained that he left the money ...

A coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has vowed to expose a northern governor from the North West who it said, masterminded the Northern version of RevolutionNow protests and anti-cabal demonstrations earlier held in the region. It disclosed that the governor ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has condemned the attack by an unknown gun on the convoy of Nasarawa State Deputy Governor Emmanuel Akabe along the Lafia-Abuja highway. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, the governor described ...

The Lagos State Government has promised to speedily complete all ongoing housing schemes to provide shelter for the teeming population. Commissioner for Housing, Maruf Akinderu-Fatai, who addressed reporters yesterday in Ikeja, stressed that the private sector’s participation would be strengthened ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu as Special Adviser and Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity. He also sanctioned the re-appointment of Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice President ...

The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to check banditry, terrorism, smuggling, proliferation of small arms and light weapons and related criminal activities may have begun taking toll in earnest on immigrants, traders, commuters, customs agents, forwarders and other maritime stakeholders, ...

Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas has advocated closer military cooperation between Nigeria and Bangladesh. He made this call while receiving the Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shameem Ahsan, in his office today. Admiral Ibas stressed that Nigeria ...