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The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has confirmed the burning of 101 homes and shops by Boko Haram terrosists in attacks on three communities in Konduga local council. The affected settlements located on fringes of Sambisa Forest, included Borri, ...

The Delta State Government has expressed its resolve to fully implement the Public and Private Property Protection Law enacted by the state House of Assembly recently to resolve conflicts arising from double taxation and other irregularities. The bill, also known ...

The Muslim community in Edo State has said that Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki appointed less than 10 per cent of its members in his government. It accused the governor of excluding Muslims in his 18-member cabinet. Expressing dissatisfaction with ...

The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) Worldwide yesterday urged the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to apologise to Ndigbo and South East governors over their activities, which it said, have brought humiliation to the zone and entire country. It threatened to ...

Special Adviser to Governor Ihedioha on Media, Steve Osuji, has disclosed that the state government has concluded arrangements to commence payment of pension arrears owed retirees in the next one month. Speaking while fielding questions from journalists on the Peoples ...

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has condemned the current ranking in the country’s police force in which no Igbo officer is Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) or Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). ...

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 ...