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Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, has sought synergy among humanitarian actors for intervention in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, mostly affected by insurgency. Maihaja made the call yesterday in his opening remark at ...

Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIPR) has sought a bench warrant to arrest coordinators of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former Niger Delta militants from 2012 to date. Chairman of the Panel, Okoi Obono-Obla ...

Lagos State government has threatened to henceforth blacklist contractors who fail to comply with the state’s guidelines on construction of houses. Permanent Secretary of the state’s Housing Ministry, Wasiu Akewusola, disclosed this during the inspection of housing schemes at Igando ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday presented its star witness, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Musa Sunday, in an alleged N2b fraud suit the Federal Republic brought against Senator Jonah David Jang and Yusuf Gyang Pam. Sunday, who ...

Fortunes of the Onne Port in Rivers State was boosted yesterday as the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) acquired two mobile harbour cranes for cargoes handling. The new cargoes handling facility, estimated at $10 million would bring WACT at par ...

Offers $3m grant for education in underserved areas Technology firm, Google has extended its street view navigation system to four more cities in Nigeria after Lagos. The newly mapped cities are Abuja, Benin City, Enugu and Ibadan. The street view ...

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have vowed to continue their protest nationwide, calling on the Federal Government for the umpteenth time to release their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, his wife and stop police brutality. A statement yesterday ...

Justice Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed has promised to lead a corruption-free judiciary, demanding a list of genuinely indicted persons for appropriate action. He made the pledge yesterday after being sworn in as the nation’s 18th substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by ...

The Senate was erupted in uproar when former Transportation Minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, entered the red chamber for his screening. The exercise to confirm the 43 ministerial nominees of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja had begun peacefully at 11:00am and ...

Aircraft’s nose-wheel damaged, loses front wheel on runway Flight operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) were grounded for hours as an Air Peace plane made emergency landing on the runway often used by foreign carriers. The plane lost ...