A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, has described the death of Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Mobilisation to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Seidougha Taribi and Government House Photographer, Reginald Dei, as ...
Read More »Police arrest suspected abductors of Channels TV reporter
Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder, acting on intelligence report, have arrested three persons for allegedly kidnapping a Channels Television reporter, Friday Okeregbe. This is in line with Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP)’s commitment to curb crimes and ...
Read More »Okorocha seeks end to touting, illegal taxation at Sam Mbakwe Airport
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday urged management of Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri, to flush out touts operating at the facility and bring sanity to the airport and its environs. He also urged the authorities to desist from ...
Read More »Court orders forfeiture of property traced to Diezani
Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the interim forfeiture of property linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Donald Chidi Amangbo and Sequoyah Properties Limited. Acting Spokesperson of the commission, ...
Read More »Sahara Energy raises $600m facility to boost South Sudan’s peace process
SAHARA Energy Resources DMCC, Dubai, has extended a $600 million facility to help boost resurgent hope for peace in the world’s youngest democracy. The $600 million facility provided by Sahara Energy DMCC, a member of the leading energy and infrastructure ...
Read More »‘Religious manipulations responsible for crises, backwardness in Nigeria’
Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University (KASU), Professor Muhammad Tanko, has argued that religious manipulation and bastardisation of cultural pluralism were responsible for crises and backwardness in Nigeria. He made this known, while speaking during a research dissemination conference on ...
Read More »Nigeria seeks AfDB’s intervention on ICT infrastructure for Industry 4.0
The ongoing leadership tussle in the African Church may have taken an ethnic dimension, as the South-South leadership of the Church in the region has allegedly ordered bishops of South-West extraction to relocate to their states. An insider who spoke ...
Read More »Nigeria seeks AfDB’s intervention on ICT infrastructure for Industry 4.0
Telecoms operators lose 342,101 subscribers in February The Federal Government has asked the African Development Bank (AfDB) to intervene in building the trans-Saharan optic fiber backbone/national broadband backbone and develop ground station for Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) and other critical ...
Read More »Presidency explains N42 billion Special Economic Zones fund
The Presidency yesterday explained operations of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which raised concerns at a recent public hearing in the Senate. Its clarification followed concerns that Federal Government’s plans to facilitate the country’s industrial development through SEZs, was being ...
Read More »Air Force loses officer to parachuting in Kaduna
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) yesterday announced the death of one of its men, Corporal Meshach Iliya Komo, in a parachuting accident in Kaduna. Its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, Ibikunle Daramola, in a statement in Abuja, ...
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