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The nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reversed its major leap in the fourth quarter of 2018 from 2.39 per cent to 2.01 in the first quarter of 2019, representing a decline of  -0.38 per cent points. The development, which is ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Navy are to be more responsive to oil bunkering and pipeline vandalism in the region. The commitment was reiterated when Deputy Zonal Head of the EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office, Alex ...

A retired Captain of Nigerian Army, Bernard Ize-Iyamu has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and Inspector General of Police Muhammed Adamu, to quickly intervene in his ordeal in the hand of some officers of Nigeria police at Zone II command ...

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 ...