Operation Puff Ader in Kaduna State has reportedly killed a suspected kidnap kingpin and armed robber, Sumaila Sule, aka SHAHO, who recently masterminded the abduction of the state Chairman of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) along the Abuja-Kaduna road. Sule, ...
Read More »Group launches strategy to enhance transparency in oil, gas, mining sectors
The Policy Alert and Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Nigeria has launched #WetinWeGain campaign to enhance adequate disclosures of oil, gas and mining transactions in the country. The campaign would also empower the people of host communities with adequate and ...
Read More »Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt doctors, nurses top list of banned practitioners in UK
Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt top the list of nations with doctors and nurses working in the United Kingdom (U.K.) despite a ban on recruiting from those countries. According to the British National Health Service (NHS) Code of Practice, Nigeria is ...
Read More »Ethnic nationalities to set up militia against killer herdsmen, B’Haram terrorists
The Ethnic Nationalities Defence Organisation (ENDO) has cautioned all minority ethnic nationalities in the country to immediately set up self-defence militia to defend their lands and territories against Boko Haram terrorists and killer herdsmen. In a statement issued in Abuja, ...
Read More »AD, LP want Lagos AG, security agencies to probe Sanwo-Olu, allege invasion of INEC registration system
The gubernatorial candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Owolabi Salis and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Professor Ifagbemi Awamaridi, have asked the Lagos State Attorney General to investigate Governor-elect Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s voter card. They alleged that Sanwo-Olu, who stood for ...
Read More »House of Reps panel to meet UNILAG VC, others over lingering crisis
House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, May 21, 2019 to resolve the lingering crisis among top officials of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The decision was taken after the committee’s meeting with the ...
Read More »‘Buhari should address imbalance in appointments during his second tenure’
A group of retired civil servants and professionals from the southern part of the country have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address all outstanding issues affecting national unity during his second tenure. Speaking with journalists after a meeting in Abuja ...
Read More »Prince William, others decry trade in exotic animals
Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, has urged government at all levels, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), banks and the transport sector to join forces in eradicating trade in exotic animal species and poaching products. The prince and others spoke against the trend ...
Read More »Social scientist berates framers of Nigeria’s constitution
A social scientist, Dr. Jimanze Ego-Alowes has picked holes in the 1999 constitution, saying those who copied the American statute book did it upside down and gifted the country a faulty, unworkable document. While interacting with booklovers at Committee for ...
Read More »Enugu monarchs explain mediation in Governor Ugwuanyi, Eze’s face-off
Traditional rulers in Enugu have said that they decided to intervene in the face-off between Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Sen. Ayogu Eze of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the interest of the future ...
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