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Cholera cases recorded in the last one month have reached 244 in Adamawa State, indicating an increase of 168 from 76 cases recorded in Yola North, Yola South and Girei councils of the state on June 17, 2019. Addressing journalists ...
Read More »Atiku Abubakar wants Nigerians to reject borrowings over nation’s rising debt profile
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has charged Nigerians of all persuasions to reject the country’s alarmingly increasing debt profile, which the Debt Management Office (DMO) has put at over N24.947 trillion. He described the situation in which government continued to ...
Read More »Envoy tasks Obasanjo, Babangida, Danjuma, others on national unity, peace
Nigeria’s envoy to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Alhaji Hassan Ardo Jika, has urged former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd.) to promote peace and national unity. He advised them ...
Read More »Don’t allow disunity to undermine our accomplishments, Vice President Osinbajo urges Nigerians Says Boko Haram resolute on shedding blood, sowing fear
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advised Nigerians not to allow disunity along ethnic and religious lines to undermine the country’s achievements and potential for future greatness. He made the assertion at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Military Training Centre in ...
Read More »Nigeria loses 200,000 barrels of oil daily to crude theft, says NGF
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has said the nation loses 200,000 barrels of oil daily to oil theft. Chairman of the forum and Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, made the revelation at a meeting between the leadership of the NGF ...
Read More »States unable to fund budgets despite receiving N4 trillion allocations
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said the 36 states of the federation could not fund their 2018 budgets despite receiving N4 trillion allocations for the period. The receipts cover earnings from the Federation Account and Allocation Committee ...
Read More »Uber Driver and others Arrested, for Raising False Alarm on Car Snatching with Intent to Cover up their Crime.
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 39-year-old Ademola Quadri of No 24 Oloko Street off College Road, Ogba, Lagos for raising a false alarm, that three armed men snatched his Toyota Corolla Saloon car. Confirming the arrest, the ...
Read More »Muslim group tasks govt on food security
The Federal Government has been urged to tackle the prevailing insecurity for farmers to do their business and ensure food security nationwide. National Amir of The Companion (a group of Muslim professionals), Alhaji Thabit Wale Sonaike, made the call yesterday ...
Read More »Federal Government approves N5 billion for research in universities, others
The Federal Government has approved N5 billion to boost research activities in Nigerian universities and tertiary institutions. The allocation, which is part of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) 2019 intervention budget, remains the highest ever disbursement to the National ...
Read More »National Assembly condemns invasion by Shiites, urges action, movement denies violence, alleges infiltration
The National Assembly has condemned its invasion by members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky-led Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adedayo Adeyeye, told reporters in Abuja that the unruly mob overpowered the ...
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