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 ...
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 ...
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