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The Social Integrity Network (SINET) has blamed incessant insurgency and armed banditry in the country on cancellation of pre-shipment inspection at the nation’s seaports by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). Its National Coordinator, Ibrahim Isah, who stated this at a ...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said oil and gas pipeline vandalism rose by 77 per cent in June this year. The newly released June edition of the corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) showed that 106 pipeline ...

Governor Babagana Zulum has linked the protracted Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State to porous borders linking Nigeria with neighbouring Chad, Cameroun and Niger republics. The governor made the submission while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja after a meeting ...

The United Nations has faulted Nigeria’s education curriculum for lack of objective values, resulting in the continued production of what it described as clever thieves. National Executive Project Director, Free United Nations Human Rights Education and Advocacy Training Project, Nigeria, ...

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has identified consistent involvement and inclusion of youths in policy formulation, implementation and collaboration among government agencies, as a solution to Nigeria’s poor Global Youth Development Index (GYDI). Nigeria ranked 141st in the 2016 GYDI, 156th in ...

Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has insisted that his administration left N 5.7b in a bank account to offset retirees’ entitlements. Okorocha, who spoke with journalists at his residence in Owerri, maintained that he left the money ...

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) and United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) have expressed concern over child mortality rate in the South East, describing it as alarming. They, however, argued that the situation could be reversed if mothers and caregivers ...

A coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has vowed to expose a northern governor from the North West who it said, masterminded the Northern version of RevolutionNow protests and anti-cabal demonstrations earlier held in the region. It disclosed that the governor ...

The Federal Government is marking three years without a Wild Polio Virus (WPV) case in the country and expressed confidence that by March 2020 Nigeria would be certified as polio-free. Consequently, the country has commenced the process of documentation for ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has condemned the attack by an unknown gun on the convoy of Nasarawa State Deputy Governor Emmanuel Akabe along the Lafia-Abuja highway. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, the governor described ...