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The Federal Government has said it is considering the prosecution of power distribution companies (DisCos) and individuals, who violate regulations in a bid to address poor electrical installations and construction in the country. Speaking at the launch of a new ...
Read More »Terrorist organisations using social media platforms to recruit disciples, says minister
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami has declared that terrorist organisations now use social media platforms to recruit followers. Pantami disclosed this in Abuja, while delivering a lecture on Leadership in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Violent Extremism in Nigeria. ...
Read More »Obaseki’s loyalists back Bisi Akande reconciliation panel
With the political squabbles rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, chieftains of the party across the 18 local councils of the state yesterday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for setting up the reconciliation committee headed by former governor ...
Read More »At Calabar event, NGO lists major obstacle to effective criminal justice law
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), Clean Foundation, has picked the police force as a major hindrance to the effective implementation of the Admission of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015. During a two day workshop for officers of the Nigeria Police Force ...
Read More »FG pledges speedy harmonisation of citizens’ identification data
The Federal Government promised speedy harmonisation of all citizens’ identification data in possession of various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to birth a single database. President Muhammadu Buhari had inaugurated the Committee on Citizen Data Management and Harmonisation sometime ago. ...
Read More »Senate threatens to sack evasive MDAs’ heads, rejects defence by representation
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has threatened to sack heads of ministries, departments and agencies (MDA) that had been spurning its summons seeking their clarifications on allegations of unathourised spending contained in the recent report from the office of ...
Read More »Pressurise National Assembly to make Diaspora voting reality, Buhari tells Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerians abroad to mount pressure on the National Assembly to amend the relevant laws with a view to making diaspora voting a reality. Speaking at a meeting with the executive committee members of the Nigerian ...
Read More »D.C AYO, PART OF OUR PROBLEM : AGENTS LAMENT – By Mc Anthony Onuoha
Agents at TinCan Port say they have been working with officers at Terminal D1, but never encountered an officer like the current O. C in charge of Five Star Terminal,(D1), Deputy Comptroller Caroline Ayo, describing her as extremely strict. One ...
Read More »ECOWAS sets up committee on Nigeria’s border closure
The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso to review and report to it on Nigeria’s land border closure with it neighbours. Senior Special Assistant ...
Read More »Southern Kaduna elder tells panel how El-Rufai humiliated, imprisoned their leaders
National President of Adara Development Association (ADA), Awemi Dio Maisamari yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government how Governor Nasir El-Rufai humiliated and imprisoned several Southern Kaduna people and some of their leaders. He ...
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