Some suspected killers of Yusuf Adabenege Onivehu, an aide to Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, who were paraded in Okene have alleged that former representative of Kogi Central Senatorial District, Ahmed Ogembe sponsored them for the dastardly act. Kogi State ...
Read More »EFCC trains officers on digital banking operations, investigation
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has charged officers to put in their best in curbing fraud associated with digital banking. Magu gave the charge at the training for officers on digital banking operations ...
Read More »South, Middle Belt coalition threatens to resist attacks in North
A Southern and Middle Belt Coalition under the auspices of Citizens Against Tyranny (CAT), has threatened to ensure that any form of intimidation or violence against Southern Nigerian peoples in the North would be met with equal resistance. While calling ...
Read More »Troops neutralises one bandit, rescue 13 kidnap victims in Kaduna
Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari has charged security agencies to ensure protection and safety of corps members posted to the state on compulsory one-year service. He also called on council area heads and traditional rulers to collaborate with security ...
Read More »Again, bandits kill six in Katsina, Masari wants safety of corps members
The Katsina State Police Command has confirmed the death of six persons who were killed following attacks by bandits on Dan Sabau, Makera and Pawwa villages in Kankara Local Government Area at the weekend. There were, however, reports that the ...
Read More »High refugee figure in ECOWAS sub-region worries regional body
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has expressed concern over the United Nations High Commission on Refugees’ report that the sub-region constitutes 40 per cent of the world’s 70 million refugees and displaced persons. It blamed ...
Read More »NNPC’s financial records okay, open to EFCC’s checks, says declares, Oil workers beg new GMD to prioritise PIB passage
Immediate past Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has said the organisation’s financial books were clean and open to scrutiny. Speaking at a valedictory session in his honour in Abuja, he stated that ...
Read More »ICC convicts Congolese warlord Ntaganda of war crimes, Buhari pledges support for Libya’s stability
Nine years after his arrest, the International Criminal Court (ICC) found former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, guilty of war crimes and related offences committed in Ituri, between 2002 and 2003. Trial Chamber VI, composed of ...
Read More »Nigeria still among poorest nations in the world, says United Nations as USAID tasks FG on population growth
The introduction of social safety net programmes by the Federal Government and development agencies to alleviate poverty in the country notwithstanding, the 2019 global multidimensional poverty index has yet again ranked Nigeria among poorest nations in the world. This comes ...
Read More »NPA assures stakeholders of industrial harmony and peace as MWUN suspends strike.
Stakeholders and other providers and users of port services in the country have been assured by the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) that it would leave no stone unturned in ensuring industrial peace and harmony. This assurance was ...
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