The House of Representatives has flayed the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) for allegedly concealing its internally generated revenue (IGR) between 2014 and 2019. The green chamber expressed its anger when the agency’s General Manager Finance, Mr. Peter Joshua, ...
Read More »Police kill two terrorists, lose officer during raid, arrest three bandits, recover arms
The police have killed two wanted commanders of the Ansaru Terror Group but lost one inspector, Mohammed Abubakar, attached to the Police Special Forces during Wednesday’s operation at Kuduru forest, Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State. According to the police, 13 other officers ...
Read More »Minister of health promises 24-hour primary healthcare, says Nigeria far from quality UHC
Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has disclosed that the primary healthcare centres have been standardised to provide 24 hours service. He made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja while declaring open a two-day meeting with commissioners of health from the ...
Read More »Benue Governor 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 »Court stops Edo PDP congresses
Edo State High Court sitting in Ekpoma has retrained the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from conducting congresses tomorrow across the councils of the state. The restraining order contained in suit number HEK/9/2020 was filed by PDP ...
Read More »EFCC secures forfeiture of ex-Kwara director’ building
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, has secured the final forfeiture of a building belonging to Adebayo Sanni, the immediate past Executive Director of Harmony Holdings Limited of Kwara State Government. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara ...
Read More »Gunmen kill middle-aged man in Katsina, police rescue 26 Kaduna kidnap victims
Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a middle-aged man, Ali Iyachi, of Shirgi village in Batsari Council of Katsina State. The incident occurred about 9pm on Tuesday when the victim was leaving neighbouring Garin-Zaki village. According to a resident, Iyachi ...
Read More »KAGOTE, Barikor disagree on development of Ogoniland
Kagote, the apex socio-cultural group in Ogoni comprising the four councils of Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme of Rivers State, has said that Ogoniland cannot be developed without government’s support. President of the group, Emmanuel Deeyah, assured that the group ...
Read More »Amnesty International accuses C’River State, FG of conspiracy against Jalingo, says state hostile to journalism
Amnesty International Nigeria (AIN) has accused Cross River State and the Federal Government of collaborating to manipulate the criminal justice system to unlawfully keep Agba Jalingo behind bars. The organisation, which on November 20, 2019, declared Jalingo, alongside other activists, ...
Read More »Governor Okowa inaugurates 700-capacity hostel at NYSC camp in Isele-Uku
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has inaugurated a 720-capacity hostel for National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members at the Permanent Orientation Camp in Issele-Uku while assuring NYSC authorities of the state government’s continued support to the scheme. The governor, who recalled the ...
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