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An employee of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Ukwunna Anthony, has been arraigned at a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly defrauding job seekers of ...
Read More »APC upbeat about early passage of 2020 budget
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed the commitment of both the executive and legislative arms of government to ensure the national budget is returned to the January-December cycle. Expressing the hope of the early passage of the 2020 ...
Read More »Minister of interior Aregbesola tasks ECOWAS on migration, extremism
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has charged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take the issue of migration seriously with a view to avoiding a rise in extremism. The immediate past governor of Osun State, who ...
Read More »Cleric seeks improved funding for nation’s education sector
President of Amazing Love Assembly, Bishop Amaechi Nwachukwu has said that Nigeria must adequately fund the nation’s education sector to guarantee its future. He said improved infrastructure, skills acquisition, training and partnerships were required to move the country’s education to ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom government seeks residents’ understanding over road projects
The Akwa Ibom State Government has sought residents and commuters understanding and patience given the current inconveniences they are facing following diversion of traffic from Olusegun Obasanjo Way and Abak Road. State Commissioner for Works, Ephraim Inyangeyen, made the appeal ...
Read More »Senate sanctions oil, gas museum research centre in Oloibiri community of Bayelsa
The Senate has resolved to ask the Federal Government to direct the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) to begin construction of the oil, gas and research centre in Oloibiri Community, Bayelsa State where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in ...
Read More »UNODC raises alarm over increase in smuggled Tramadol
The United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has raised concerns over the increasing smuggling of Tramadol through the nation’s seaports. It disclosed that the quantity of smuggled Tramadol seized at the seaports has gone up from eight tons ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom reveals plans to establish disease control coordination centre
An Epidemiologist at the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health and Chairman, Committee on the Nigerian Medical Association Physicians Week, Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, has disclosed that a Coordination Center for Disease Control would soon be established in the state. He ...
Read More »Groups write N’Assembly, seek investigation of NGOs operating in North East over alleged abuses
The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) and the Centre for International and Strategy Studies (CISS) have written the National Assembly on the activities of some international non-govermental organisations (NGOs) in the North East and seeking a through investigation of their ...
Read More »Court fixes December 11 to hear motion in N19.4b Dasuki’s trial
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja has fixed December 11, 2019 for hearing in the trial of Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and four others over alleged misappropriation of N19.4b arms funds. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf adjourned the ...
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