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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 ...

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, ...

The African Union has endorsed the Buhari Unity Band, a not-for-profit initiative that articulates the president’s commitment to peace, unity and fight against corruption. In a letter presented to Dr. Abayomi Oyekoya, the body’s convener, in Abuja at the weekend, ...

A coalition of aviation workers’ unions has grounded operations of Caverton Helicopters in Lagos and Port Harcourt over alleged indebtedness to former workers and anti-labour activities. The picketing exercise, led by the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday dismissed what it called “reckless and groundless claim” by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its standard-bearer, Atiku Abubakar, was a Camerounian as a calculated attempt to “trivialise and divert attention from the compelling ...

Reasons have come to the fore why the next outbreak of epidemic in Nigeria and some other African and Asian nations might not be far off. Recent reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United States Centre for Disease ...

Lawyers have backed the request by rights body, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), urging President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors to provide specific details of spending of security votes between 2011 and 2019. The Dean, Faculty of Law, Lagos ...

Ecobank Nigeria Limited has announced special discount for shoppers using the EcobankPay option to pay for their goods and services during the Easter holidays and will run till the end of April 2019. EcobankPay is a digital QR code/ Unstructured ...

Five years on, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, yesterday reaffirmed that the search by the military for the remaining Chibok girls was ongoing. Delivering the maiden lecture of the Centre for Contemporary Security Affairs of the ...

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, has accused government of tolerating insurgency, kidnapping and armed banditry for economic returns. Briefing reporters yesterday at Government House, Maiduguri after his two-day visit to internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) ...