Nasiru Ingawa, a star witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the alleged misappropriation of N5.7b Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) funds by former Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shema, says he cannot prove that he collected ...
Read More »President Buhari to commission three new factories in Cross River
President Muhammadu Buhari will later this month visit Cross River State to commission three new industries built by the state government. The factories are the Cross River noodles factory, the fertiliser factory and the chicken processing plant. Buhari will be ...
Read More »BPP has approved forensic audit of NDDC, says Akpabio as IYC cautions against change of PAP leadership
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs (MNDA), Godswill Akpabio, has claimed that the ministry had secured approval from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to commence forensic audit on the activities the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as directed by President ...
Read More »NAF launches Operation Rattle Snake III, destroys ISWAP hideout in Borno State
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), through its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole, has launched ‘Operation Rattle Snake III‘ against terrorists in the North East. According to a statement signed by NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, ...
Read More »Minister of Water Resources seeks group’s support against open defecation
Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, has solicited the support of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Nigeria chapter, to achieve an Open Defecation-Free society by 2025. Adamu, who said this yesterday in Abuja when the society’s president, Ajose Otinwa, ...
Read More »Finally, Awka gets Court of Appeal division
After many years of waiting, Awka in Anambra State has joined cities in the country that host an appellate court. In a historic ceremony yesterday in Awka, Governor Willie Obiano played host to the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice ...
Read More »Hearing on President Buhari’s purported wedding stalls
Hearing of purported fake wedding video of President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, could not proceed yesterday due to inability of the complainant to tender the case file. The alleged mastermind ...
Read More »FRSC cautions motorists against alteration of speed limit device
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned fleet operators who tamper with the calibrated Speed Limiting Devices in their vehicles to desist from such act or risk impoundment of their vehicles and subsequent compulsory re-installation and calibration of such ...
Read More »Benue governor Samuel Ortom vows to prosecute masterminds of Tiv/Jukun crisis
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said that those fomenting crisis in the state, no matter how highly placed, will be arrested and prosecuted. Ortom stated this at the Government House, Makurdi, when he received report from the commission of ...
Read More »Groups commend FG for gazetting tobacco control regulations
The Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have commended the Federal Government for gazetting the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Regulations 2019. Federal Ministry of Health gazette of the NTC Regulations 2019 ...
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