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Another substance suspected to be an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) has been discovered by the Police Anti-Bomb Squad in Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna. They area has been cordoned off by security men at the moment and all vehicles going towards Kawo and oth...
Security forces patrolled an extensive market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday where an assault by suspected Islamists killed some 30 people, vendors and residents said. Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamist sect Boko ...
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday issued a 21-day ultimatum for the removal of the wrecked vessels at Maiyegun and Alpha beach fronts by their owners or face legal action. Mr Adesegun Oniru, the Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Developmen...
The Serbian ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Rondic Rifat, said on Tuesday in Abuja that his country is to open an honorary consulate in Kano next month. Rifat who spoke with newsmen, said opening of the consulate would further promote diplomatic ties between...
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has restated the commitment of his administration towards the economic development of the state just as he declared that the task of making life more meaningful to the less privileged in the society is a task...
The Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Samson Wudah, has said that the command would deploy 9,000 personnel for the Feb 25 gubernatorial election in the state.
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has canvassed for greater investment in agriculture by organised private sector and donor agencies in the bid to transform agric-business in the country. Fayemi made the call at the public presentation of&n...
The Kano State Command of the Nigerian Police has stepped up effort towards reviving its Public Complaint Bureau that will give citizens chance to report any officer found wanting. The Command Public Relations Officer [PPRO], Magaji Musa Majiya, ...
The Kwara Sstate governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has restated his commitment to the completion of 21 ongoing road projects across the state in the next four years. The governor made this comment during the official presentation of a Second Class Sta...
Two persons and some 30 domestic animals have been killed by a rampaging lion in the Gulani Local Government Area of Yobe. The Yobe State Commissioner for Environment, Alhaji Wakil Sarki, confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with our corresp...
The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has said that it would complete the rehabilitation of Murtala Mohammed Airport Road, Ikeja, in February. A Maintenance Engineer with the Agency, Mr Ige Babatunde, said in Lagos on Monday that work on the proj...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called on Nigerians to assist the commission in its efforts to rid the country of corruption through the volunteer corps scheme. The National Anti-corruption Volunteer C...
A former Minister of State for the FCT, Mr Solomon Ewuga, on Sunday said that community policing was the best solution to the security challenges facing the nation. Ewuga made the statement in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. He argued that communit...
Given the vulnerability of street sweepers to hazards and road accidents, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday said plans are in the offing by his administration to increase the salary of street sweepers in the state. This was just as he ...
The Yobe State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Abbagana Tata and a Senatorial candidate of the party in the 2011 senatorial election, Hassan Kafayos have jointly dragged the Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama and the...