A new state of the climate report has confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in record dating back from the mid-1800s. It found that the major indicators of climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming ...
Read More »‘Withdrawal of troops from checkpoints to reinforce security, check communal feuds’
Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Major-General Augustine Agundu, has said the need to reinforce security in the hinterlands and check communal crisis informed the withdrawal of OPSH troops from checkpoints. He stressed that the decision to withdraw troops from ...
Read More »Media Rights Agenda seeks release of detained journalist, Halilu
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called for the release of journalist and former Political Editor of Daily Trust newspaper, Ibrahim Dan Halilu, detained by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). It said that the Federal Government must compensate him ...
Read More »Umara deploys NSCDC agro rangers, hunters to implement RUGA in Borno
Borno State Governor Babagana Umara has deployed the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) agro-rangers and hunters to implement Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) programme in the state. Land for the state’s RUGA, located in Sambisa Forest and its fringes, ...
Read More »Contractor to address communities concerns before handover of Lagos-Ibadan rail project
The contractor handling the 156 kilometre standard gauge rail line from Lagos to Ibadan has assured communities along the corridor that it will address all their concerns before completion and handover of the project. China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) ...
Read More »Kogi clears 19,950 council employees for payment, screens out 4,000 ghost workers
The Kogi State Local Government Service Commission has disclosed that 19,950 of the 24,959 council workers have been cleared for payment after the screening exercise. Executive Chairman of the commission, Professor Shuaibu Ahmed Ibrahim, who made this known in Lokoja ...
Read More »Gunmen kill Bunu hunters boss Oshe, son in Kogi, Bello condemns act
Unidentified gunmen have killed Chairman of Bunu Hunters in Kogi State, Caleb Oshe and his son, Sunday at his village, Suku in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of the state. Reacting to what he described as a dastardly act, Kogi ...
Read More »Two herders hospitalised in Imo after clash over missing cattle as cleric cautions FG to avoid RUGA crisis
Two herdsmen are currently receiving treatment at emergency unit of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, Imo State, after clashing and inflicting wounds on each other yesterday. The incident led to traffic heavy gridlock along the Owerri-Aba Road in Agbala, ...
Read More »Fulani herdsmen killed over 3,400 persons in 2019, Fani-Kayode declares
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that Fulani herdsmen have killed no fewer than 3,400 persons in the country between January and August this year. Consequently, he cautioned Christians and all Nigerians to heed former President Olusegun ...
Read More »African countries move to end fossil fuel extraction
Disturbed by the damage caused to the environment by fossil fuel extraction, Oil Watch Africa, a network of 15 African countries, has urged continental leaders to end the opening of new reserves for the product. The network, in a declaration ...
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