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Eight days after the Senate approved the $22.7 loan request for President Muhammadu Buhari, federal lawmakers from the South East geo-political zone yesterday called on the leadership of the National Assembly to accommodate the region in the facility. A report ...

Worried about the moves by the six geopolitical zones to individually have their areas urbanised through development commissions, Senate President Ahmad Lawan has charged the Federal Government to address the challenge through a structured national planning. Besides the Niger Delta ...

The Nigerian Navy has restated its determination to sanitise the waterways for hitch-free legitimate maritime activities. Its Commanding Officer for Forward Operation Base (FOB), Ibaka in Mbo Local Council of Akwa Ibom State, Captain Peter Yilme, renewed the pledge yesterday ...

Prominent Nigerians have opposed the proposed bill in the Senate to prosecute persons who import, sell and use electricity generating sets in the country. Tagged: “A Bill for an Act to prohibit/ban the importation/ use generating sets,” it was sponsored ...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has refuted alleged diversion of research grants by some lecturers in Nigerian universities. This was contained in a letter sent to the Managing Director of Premium Times by Acting Director of Research and Development and Centres ...

A Federal High Court, Lagos has declared that a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Council (NEC) scheduled for next week Tuesday must not hold without former Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, Waziri Bulama and Paul Chukwuma. ...

Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha has suspended his planned visit to the state in preparation for award congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After weighing the options of possible breakdown of law and order by some ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged the 2020 Batch A, Stream One National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) members to take advantage of the Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) programme to become economically independent after their mandatory one-year service. ...

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that the state government may be forced to review the 2020 budget due to the dwindling oil revenue occasioned by the outbreak COVID-19 and its effect on global economy. Okowa, who hinted that ...

Opens screening points in Kaduna as Bayelsa gov Diri lauds scheme The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that it is doing everything possible to guide and guard corps members against contracting the dreaded coronavirus disease in camps across ...