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Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, and other critical stakeholders have urged the Federal Government to sell the nation’s moribund refineries to interested local and foreign investors. The minister and other experts, drawn from his ministry as well ...

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) is to send to a proposal to the Ninth National Assembly compelling political parties to reserve 30 per cent of the membership of their national and state executive councils for youths to engender more participation ...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide has again urged President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate the offices of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to the region. It also restated its call to make the ...

Operation Puff Ader in Kaduna State has reportedly killed a suspected kidnap kingpin and armed robber, Sumaila Sule, aka SHAHO, who recently masterminded the abduction of the state Chairman of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) along the Abuja-Kaduna road. Sule, ...

The Ethnic Nationalities Defence Organisation (ENDO) has cautioned all minority ethnic nationalities in the country to immediately set up self-defence militia to defend their lands and territories against Boko Haram terrorists and killer herdsmen. In a statement issued in Abuja, ...

A group of retired civil servants and professionals from the southern part of the country have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address all outstanding issues affecting national unity during his second tenure. Speaking with journalists after a meeting in Abuja ...

A social scientist, Dr. Jimanze Ego-Alowes has picked holes in the 1999 constitution, saying those who copied the American statute book did it upside down and gifted the country a faulty, unworkable document. While interacting with booklovers at Committee for ...

The race for the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) for the next four years thickened on Saturday with the president of Tarayar Ekklisiyoyin Kristi A Nigeria (TEKAN), Dr. Caleb Ahima, declaring his intention to run. He will lock ...

Cross River State government has said that about 54 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) were revived within four years to provide good healthcare for the people. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong, made this known in Calabar, the state capital ...

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that the northeast state is safer than the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other states in the north. Shettima disclosed this before the House of Representatives Committee on Army at the Government ...