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Buhari leaves for summit in Russia From Terhemba Daka, Abuja THE Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, yesterday said the Federal Government’s request for a $3 billion World Bank loan to finance the power sector was at the verge of being ...

Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) have lamented the perennial challenges in the Nigerian airspace and its management, maintaining that very little had changed in terms of safety concerns, inadequate and untrained workforce, among other issues facing the aviation sector. On the ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the Senate, police ...

The  Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has said that the Agency is ready to tackle issues of fake and substandard products coming into Nigeria, with the approval of African Continental Free Trade Agreement, ACFTA, by the government. This was disclosed ...

The alleged inflation of a water hyacinth contract from N2.5 billion to N65 billion by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has elicited reactions. The Senate Public Account probing the development has summoned the commission’s Acting Managing Director, Dr. Enyia ...

The Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration has committed itself to the continued partnerships with vigilante groups and security agencies for better protection of lives and properties in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Charles Aniagwu, made the pledge at Onicha-Ugbo while ...

General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) has challenged government, private sector and other stakeholders to work out modalities that will facilitate the introduction of drug addiction studies in the nation’s tertiary institutions. Marwa said this would go a long way in ...

The Rivers State command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested no fewer than 16 persons suspected to be engaged in diversion of stolen crude oil and other petroleum products. While parading the suspects yesterday in ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Sokoto Zonal Office has arraigned Aminu Umar Gagi, Ibrahim Ahmed and Aliyu Suleiman before Justice Isah Muhammad Bargaja of the Sokoto State High Court on three-count charges bordering on conspiracy and bribery. Trouble ...

The United Nations (UN) and Economic Community of West Africa, States (ECOWAS) has urged government of member countries, civil societies and other regional partners to join in the campaign against statelessness in the region. This followed disclosure that the region ...