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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) ...
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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 ...
Read More »Stop giving us money for Sallah, Kebbi youths tell Bagudu, gov prays for unity, safe return of Nigerian pilgrims
The Leadership of Non-Indigene Youths Association in Kebbi State has appealed to Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu to abolish monetary gifts he usually gives them during Sallah and fasting in the state. They urged the governor to instead find other means ...
Read More »Abia State govt set to promote 941 workers
No fewer than 941 workers in Abia State Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are now due for 2018 promotions, while another 333 and 442 are for confirmation and conversion respectively. Head of Service, Onyii Wamah, who confirmed this, said it ...
Read More »Groups advocate stringent laws to check excessive tobacco use
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) have asked the Federal Government and states to enact strong and effective laws to check excessive tobacco intake in the country. They said that an effective tax ...
Read More »Arms’ proliferation, poor policing stimulating insecurity, Okei-Odumakin declares
Human rights activist, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, has lamented that the proliferation of unlicensed firearms was fuelling the killings nationwide. Okei-Odumakin spoke alongside fellow guest lecturer, Professor Dele Adetoye, in Ado-Ekiti, during the inaugural Comrade Bunmi Ojo Memorial Lecture. Assailants had ...
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