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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 ...

Edo United for Homeland Empowerment has expressed worry over the deteriorating security situation in Edo State, saying incidences of kidnapping, cult-related killings and political thuggery have assumed an alarming proportion. The group, in a statement by its president, Frank Ekhator, ...

The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has insisted that it still stands with the 16-point agenda of the South-South leaders, which its President-General, Olorogun Moses Taiga said, favours restructuring based on true federalism. He said Nigeria had three regions, but the ...

Herdsmen have reportedly killed an unidentified man and kidnapped a 17-year daughter of a teacher at Azagba Mixed Secondary School in Isele-Azagba, Aniocha South Council Area of Delta State. Consequently, the community’s vigilance group has been combing the entire area ...

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase have canvassed community policing and installation of high-tech security devices in strategic locations to combat crimes and insecurity in the country. They argued that ...