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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 ...
Read More »Tension in Edo as state government demolishes APC chieftain, Kabaka’s hotel
Tension heightened among members of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) as the state government demolished a hotel belonging a chieftain of the party, Tony Adun, popularly known as ‘Kabaka’ and loyalist to National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. The state ...
Read More »Southern, M’Belt leaders alert to importation of weaponised drones into Nigeria
Urge FG to probe incident at Lagos Airport Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) yesterday raised the alarm over alleged importation of weaponised drones into the country, purportedly meant for the Kaduna State government. While urging the Federal Government ...
Read More »FG eyes improved security, directs NCC to review SIM cards registration, makes NIN essential
In a bid to improve security in the country, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, yesterday directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to review SIM card registration policy and usage. To achieve the best ...
Read More »Community policing will end insecurity, says IGP Mohammed Adamu
Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Muhammad Adamu said the solution to insecurity in the country is to take policing back to the people at the grassroots level through community policing. He charged state governments to take responsibility by ensuring that they ...
Read More »Customs Intercept Over $6m USD at Lagos Airport by Jerry Aguigbo
The Nigeria Customs Service Murtala Muhammed International Airport has intercepted and seized $6.8million about to be flown out of Nigeria by unknown persons. Disclosing this in Lagos this Tuesday at the Airport in Lagos, Col.Hameed Ali( Rtd), who briefed the ...
Read More »Ekpenyong, Akpabio bicker over outcome of senatorial rerun poll
Representative of Akwa-Ibom North West Senatorial District, Christopher Ekpenyong and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, have continued to bicker over the outcome of the just-concluded rerun election. Ekpenyong, who spoke to State House Correspondents after his victory at ...
Read More »Delta leaders task governors on insecurity in region
Leaders of ethnic nationalities in Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State have urged governours of the South-South geopolitical zone to unite and form a security outfit to compliment the Police and other security agencies to tackle insecurity and protect ...
Read More »Niger Delta groups write President Buhari, demand sack of NDDC’s interim management
A coalition of no fewer than 16 Niger Delta groups have written a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the Interim Management Committee (IMC’s) continued to stay in office at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement ...
Read More »PANDEF seeks security arrangement for S’South, alleges existential threat
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) at the weekend urged governours of the South-South to set up a regional security outfit such as Amotekun that has been successfully initiated by their South West counterparts to address insecurity in the region. At an ...
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