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The Cross River State House of Assembly has again expressed reservations, as the state government shops for N35b loan from three commercial banks in the state for the second time in three weeks. Request for the loans is coming in ...

Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the state House of Assembly to invoke Section 190 Sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and transmit power to the Deputy Governor, Haruna Manu. This followed the ...

HURIWA condemns media outfits for abandoning journalist A Federal High Court in Calabar, Cross River State has granted bail to publisher of Cross River Watch, Agba Jalingo after 175 days in detention. Justice Sule Shuaibu, who took over his trial after ...

Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has decried lack of hostel accommodation in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. He said the problem was one of the factors making the country not to attract foreign students and teachers into its tertiary institutions. ...

Governor Udom Emmanuel has urged the United States government to reconsider its recent visa restriction on Nigerians, especially Akwa Ibom indigenes. He made the appeal yesterday while receiving the Deputy Chief of Missions of the United States Embassy, Nigeria, Kathleen ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for a concerted effort by stakeholders for the conservation of wildlife, insisting that their existence is very important to the survival of nature. Obasanjo who spoke yesterday while addressing members of the Pangolin Conservation ...

Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered the remand of four directors of Petro Union Oil and Gas Limited in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged £2.6 billion about ...

The Nigerian Army has released 136 repentant Boko Haram terrorists under its Operation Safe Corridor (OSC) skills acquisition training for integration into the society. Over 1,400 ex-insurgents were handed over to the Borno State government after the 52-week training in ...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has called for the overhaul of the nation’s security infrastructure to end the prevailing insurgency in the land, maintaining that the current strength of the military could not defeat the Boko Haram sect. It, therefore, ...

For the second day running, air travel was again grounded to a halt as haze blurred air-to-ground visibility at airports nationwide. While aircraft were delayed on the ramp for hours, stuck passengers grew uneasy, throwing various domestic terminals into chaos. ...