No fewer than 20 persons were yesterday feared dead following a renewed cult attack at Kono-Boue settlement in Khana Local Council of Rivers State. A source said that an unspecified number of armed cultists, suspected to be members of Iceland ...
Read More »Kachikwu, others seek sale of refineries to local, foreign investors, offer pathway to pipeline vandalism
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, and other critical stakeholders have urged the Federal Government to sell the nation’s moribund refineries to interested local and foreign investors. The minister and other experts, drawn from his ministry as well ...
Read More »IPAC seeks full engagement of youths in politics
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) is to send to a proposal to the Ninth National Assembly compelling political parties to reserve 30 per cent of the membership of their national and state executive councils for youths to engender more participation ...
Read More »IYC urges PMB to relocate Presidential Amnesty Programme, Niger Delta Ministry to region
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide has again urged President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate the offices of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to the region. It also restated its call to make the ...
Read More »Police kill suspected abductor of UBEC chairman in Kaduna, SARS destroy kidnappers den in A’Ibom
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 ...
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