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Nigerian security forces recaptured on Friday the main suspect in a deadly Christmas Day bomb attack who escaped from police custody last month, a state security source said. Kabiru Sokoto's escape on January 18 was described by security sources as...
The Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, has assured that the state-owned university would be free from interference. He gave the assurance on Wednesday when he led members of Bauchi State University Governing Council to the Tertiary Educa...
Various civil society groups that monitored the just concluded gubernatorial election in Adamawa State have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on what they called drastic improvements witnessed in the recent gubernatorial el...
The Director-General, Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Prof. Sambo Wapmut, has said the agency has mapped out strategies aimed at facilitating President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic transformation agenda. Wapmut disclosed this while addressing par...
Counsel to Prof. Steve Ugbah of ACN on Thursday tendered three WAEC certificates purportedly owned by Gov. Gabriel Suswam at the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Makurdi. The lawyers, led by Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), tendered the c...
The Edo State government has urged the opposition parties in the state to be guided by the principles of constructive criticisms even as it warns against statements capable of causing frictions among the ethnic nationalities in the state. Reacting to a...
Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has banned the use of GSM phones by school children in public primary and secondary schools in Delta State. The governor announced the ban yesterday at Ogharefe Secondary School, Oghareki Junction, during an inspe...
Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, the Director General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), has stressed the need to reawaken the 774 local governments to identity the tourism potential of their areas. Runsewe made the statement on Thursday when ...
Government activities has been paralysed in Jigawa State as virtually all government officials have relocated to Abuja for the Supreme Court judement on the governorship election petition holding today. Reports in the state indicates that, the st...
Prof. Viola Onwuliri, the Minister of State I for Foreign Affairs, says Nigerian investors should take advantage of the low interest loans from ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to grow their businesses. The minister made the call...
A Federal High Court, will on April 2, deliver its ruling on whether or not the new charge filed against the former Managing Director of the Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was valid under ...
Mr David Adejuwon, the Director, Ministry of Trade and Investment, has called on ECOWAS member countries to embark on viable economic relations among themselves. Adejuwon, who made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen, said the m...
Lagos State House of Assembly has lauded the government’s determination to provide healthcare service delivery that will engender quality and affordable health to its citizenry. Chairman, House Committee on Health Services, Hon Suru Avoseh, gave ...
As the curtains on the probe of the fuel subsidy management by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee drop, the committee, has queried the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over allegations by the accountant-general of Liberia ...
Nigeria Premier League (NPL) champions, Dolphins have declared that it will appeal against Wednesday's ruling in a match-fixing allegation from last season. Dolphins were fined N10 million by the Organising and Disciplinary Committee ...