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Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Imo State chapter, Austin Chilakpu, has described as “too much” the appointment of 43 ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari. He therefore urged the president to merge the ministries to save cost of governance ...
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Group sues FG, Joint Military Task Force over black soot in Rivers State
A civil society group, the Extra Step Initiative (ESI) has sued the Federal Government and the Joint Military Task Force (Operation Delta Safe) for the continuous pollution of the environment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The group, which launched Stop ...
Read More »Report proclaims 2018 as fourth warmest year on record
A new state of the climate report has confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in record dating back from the mid-1800s. It found that the major indicators of climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming ...
Read More »‘Withdrawal of troops from checkpoints to reinforce security, check communal feuds’
Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Major-General Augustine Agundu, has said the need to reinforce security in the hinterlands and check communal crisis informed the withdrawal of OPSH troops from checkpoints. He stressed that the decision to withdraw troops from ...
Read More »Contractor to address communities concerns before handover of Lagos-Ibadan rail project
The contractor handling the 156 kilometre standard gauge rail line from Lagos to Ibadan has assured communities along the corridor that it will address all their concerns before completion and handover of the project. China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) ...
Read More »Kogi clears 19,950 council employees for payment, screens out 4,000 ghost workers
The Kogi State Local Government Service Commission has disclosed that 19,950 of the 24,959 council workers have been cleared for payment after the screening exercise. Executive Chairman of the commission, Professor Shuaibu Ahmed Ibrahim, who made this known in Lokoja ...
Read More »Two herders hospitalised in Imo after clash over missing cattle as cleric cautions FG to avoid RUGA crisis
Two herdsmen are currently receiving treatment at emergency unit of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, Imo State, after clashing and inflicting wounds on each other yesterday. The incident led to traffic heavy gridlock along the Owerri-Aba Road in Agbala, ...
Read More »My second term is to lift the poor, Buhari assures, meets APC governors, SGF in Daura
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to improve the lot of the poor and those in the lower rung of the society during his second term in office. Addressing leaders of the various communities from the five council areas of Daura ...
Read More »A Woman Lodger Found Dead In Hotel
A womam identified as Jessica has been found dead in her hotel room in Southbound hotel Morogbo in Lagos. The Lagos State Police command spokesman Bala Elkana on Sunday said that at about 2pm on the 9th of August, 2019, ...
Read More »Muslim Congress tasks government on security poverty reduction, others
The Muslim Congress (TMC) has charged the Federal Government to urgently address insecurity, militancy, poverty and rising unemployment in the country. Its representative, Dr. Luqman AbdurRaheem, in a statement in Lagos also urged all Nigerians irrespective of ethnic and religious ...
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