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The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the killing of 10 persons by bandits at Zango Village in Kankara Local Government Area. A statement issued by the command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident, adding that the bandits also ...

Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has constituted 105 standing committees in a bid to ensure that the lower legislative chamber discharges its duties effectively. Highlights of the lawmakers that made the list as chairmen and deputy chairmen indicate that ...

The Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA) Worldwide has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a southerner defense minister in his next cabinet. The body made the call in a statement in Ibadan by its National President, Olalekan Hammed. According to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will be departing Abuja for Monrovia to attend the activities marking Liberia’s 172nd independence anniversary. Besides being a special guest of honour, the Nigerian leader would receive the West African country’s highest national honour, “The Grand Cordon ...

A total of N762.597 billion has been distributed as June allocation to the Federal Government, 36 states and the 774 council areas. A communiqué issued by the Technical Sub Committee of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) and signed by ...

The Estate Pacesetters (TEP) says it has planted 60 trees in Low-Cost Housing Estate Jakande Estate, Lagos, between 2018 and 2019 to make the estate green. TEP’s Acting President, Mr Abiodun Iyiola, made the disclosure in Lagos. Iyiola said, “visitors ...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a five-man panel to investigate financial misappropriation, among other allegations, in the state’s four colleges in the last 10 years. Speaking at the inauguration of the commission headed by former Head of Service ...

The Lagos State Service Commission has assured workers that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration would continue to improve their welfare but frown on absenteeism and tardiness. The Commissioner representing Ikeja Division in the commission, Oladipo Ajomale, during a job evaluation ...

Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, has sought synergy among humanitarian actors for intervention in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, mostly affected by insurgency. Maihaja made the call yesterday in his opening remark at ...

Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPR) has sought a bench warrant to arrest coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger Delta militants from 2012 to date. Chairman of the Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla ...