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Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPR) has sought a bench warrant to arrest coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger Delta militants from 2012 to date. Chairman of the Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla ...
Read More »Lagos State to blacklist contractors over non-compliance with building guidelines
Lagos State government has threatened to henceforth blacklist contractors who fail to comply with the state’s guidelines on construction of houses. Permanent Secretary of the state’s Housing Ministry, Wasiu Akewusola, disclosed this during the inspection of housing schemes at Igando ...
Read More »EFCC tenders police witness in alleged N2b fraud suit against Jang, Pam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday presented its star witness, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Musa Sunday, in an alleged N2b fraud suit the Federal Republic brought against Senator Jonah David Jang and Yusuf Gyang Pam. Sunday, who ...
Read More »WACT’s $10m facility upgrade boosts Onne Port cargoes traffic
Fortunes of the Onne Port in Rivers State was boosted yesterday as the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) acquired two mobile harbour cranes for cargoes handling. The new cargoes handling facility, estimated at $10 million would bring WACT at par ...
Read More »Google extends street view navigation to Abuja, Ibadan, Benin City, Enugu
Offers $3m grant for education in underserved areas Technology firm, Google has extended its street view navigation system to four more cities in Nigeria after Lagos. The newly mapped cities are Abuja, Benin City, Enugu and Ibadan. The street view ...
Read More »Shiites vow to sustain protest untill El-Zakzaky, wife regain freedom
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have vowed to continue their protest nationwide, calling on the Federal Government for the umpteenth time to release their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, his wife and stop police brutality. A statement yesterday ...
Read More »Mohammed sworn in as substantive CJN, promises corruption-free judiciar, demands list of corrupt persons
Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has promised to lead a corruption-free judiciary, demanding a list of genuinely indicted persons for appropriate action. He made the pledge yesterday after being sworn in as the nation’s 18th substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by ...
Read More »Uproar, objections greet Amaechi’s screening in Senate as ex-minister pegs Nigeria’s uneducated kids at 16 million
The Senate was erupted in uproar when former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, entered the red chamber for his screening. The exercise to confirm the 43 ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja had begun peacefully at 11:00am and ...
Read More »Int’l flights divert as Air Peace plane made emergency landing at MMIA
Aircraft’s nose-wheel damaged, loses front wheel on runway Flight operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) were grounded for hours as an Air Peace plane made emergency landing on the runway often used by foreign carriers. The plane lost ...
Read More »UNN ranks number one in Nigeria, 17 in Africa, 1,108 globally
The new webometric ranking (July 2019 version 8.1.0 BETA), has ranked University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), as number one in Nigeria, 17 in Africa and 1,108 in the world. Tagged: Transparent Ranking: Top Universities by Citations in Top Google Scholar Profiles, and ...
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