Senate yesterday charged the Federal Government to urgently facilitate the release of Leah Sharibu, a female student of Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yobe State still in Boko Haram’s captivity. A splinter group of Boko Haram terrorists had on February ...
Read More »Borno governor Shettima meets with service chiefs over insecurity, relocation of residents
Similarly, Governor Kashim Shettima and some members of the National Assembly from Borno State on Wednesday met separately with service chiefs over insecurity and relocation of residents from three communities to the Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri. ...
Read More »Buhari orders clampdown on armed bandits, kidnappers, others
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday gave a marching order to security operatives to deal ruthlessly with bandits terrorising Zamfara State and its environs. He equally sanctioned same measure for kidnappers and others engaged in acts compromising security nationwide. The president gave ...
Read More »Buhari orders clampdown on armed bandits, kidnappers, others
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday gave a marching order to security operatives to deal ruthlessly with bandits terrorising Zamfara State and its environs. He equally sanctioned same measure for kidnappers and others engaged in acts compromising security nationwide. The president gave ...
Read More »PDP, Timi Frank allege plot to incriminate former Vice President
National Working Committee (NWC) of the main opposition party and former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, have alleged plots to set up the ex-vice president. In a statement by its national publicity ...
Read More »FG cautions Atiku against overheating polity, instigating political crisis
The Federal Government has issued a stern warning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 23, 2019 presidential polls, Atiku Abubakar, to “henceforth, stop overheating the polity and quit trying to instigate a political crisis in Nigeria ...
Read More »Federal Government acquires N5.4 billion firefighting equipment
The Federal Government has acquired a state-of the-art aircraft’s firefighting simulator worth N5.4 billion (£11.5 million). The equipment was on Monday inspected and tested by Nigerian officials in London ahead of their shipment to Nigeria. Head of delegation and Minister ...
Read More »Inter-religious group moves against extremism, intolerance, disunity, others
Worried by the constant whipping of the nation’s fault lines of religion and ethnicity by the political class and others for selfish ends, the National Inter-Faith and Religious Organisations for Peace (NIFROP) is beginning an aggressive campaign against what it ...
Read More »Senate approves FG’s mid-term expenditure framework, police fund bill
The Senate yesterday passed the 2019-2021 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) of the Federal Government prior to the passage of the N8.83 trillion 2019 budget. Adopting the report of its Finance Committee during plenary, the upper ...
Read More »Ogun tribunal grants Labour Party access to election materials
The Ogun Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the Labour Party (LP) access the materials it used to conduct the March 9 governorship and house of assembly polls in the state. The Justice ...
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