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The Delta State Government has urged contractors handling the Obitobon-Elolo-Ajaokurogbo-Orubu road in Ogidighen Phase One, Warri South-West Council Area of Delta State, to speed up the pace of work on the project. Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye, gave the ...
Read More »Governor Ayade appeals to FG for incentives, intervention in Cross River
The Cross River State government has canvassed special incentives and intervention from the Federal Government following its scarce resources, loss of Bakassi Peninsula and removal from 13 per cent derivation, among others. A statement from the state government disclosed that ...
Read More »ACF postpones 20th anniversary over fear of coronavirus, appeals to invited guests
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has postponed its 20th-anniversary celebration slated for next week, following the recent Kaduna killings and the spreading Corona-Virus as reasons for shifting the event. Earlier scheduled for Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12, 2020, in ...
Read More »FG set to reintegrate 606 rehabilitated Boko Haram fighters
Ex-insurgents not absorbed into military, army insists The Nigerian Army has concluded arrangements to reunite another batch of 606 former Boko Haram fighters with their families after undergoing rehabilitation under Federal Government’s Operation Safe Corridor. Coordinator of the programme, Major General ...
Read More »Nasarawa douses tension over spread, convenes stakeholders forum, Niger to set up emergency centres
To douse the fear of contracting Coronavirus, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Yahaya has convened a stakeholders meeting to commence an awareness campaign on prevention of the disease. Addressing the stakeholders at the state Ministry of Health in Lafia, ...
Read More »UNICEF urges people to seek information from trusted sources
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has cautioned people against relying on information from social media about the Coronavirus pandemic that cannot be trusted. In a statement by its Communication Officer, Blessing Ejiofor, it urged the people to only trust ...
Read More »Ex-agitators push for amnesty coordinator of Akwa Ibom origin
Ex-agitators Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a qualified indigene of Akwa Ibom State origin as the next Special Adviser/National Coordinator of the programme. Leader of the forum, Comrade Imoh Stephen Okoko, in ...
Read More »South-South governors set for regional security outfit, to reposition BRACE Commission
The South-South Governors Forum has resolved to revive the BRACE Commission to tackle insecurity and developmental issues in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, saying they had agreed as a zone that there was a need to have a regional security ...
Read More »We needs new constitution,Nigeria may not survive in another civil war, OBJ
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday canvasses for a new constitution for the country as against an amended one. Hailed the Southwest governors for what he called their courage in establishing the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) Operation Amotekun to ...
Read More »Admit us in port, and we will stop chasing fake products in markets and warehouse
The Director-General of Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) Mr Osita A bolo ma disclosed in a one day Stakeholders forum Organized by the agency recently in Lagos in A papa that he wants (SON) to come back to the ports. ...
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