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Eighteen female officers will be among the 85 Nigerian Navy cadets expected to graduate under the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) direct short service course. The spokesman for the Academy, Lt. Col. Abubakar Edun, told the News Agency of Nigeria (...
Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, has said that the Presidential Amnesty office was not established to be a security outfit. Kuku said this in a statement signed by Mr Henry Ugbolue...
The Chairman of the Security Committee for 2012 Nwonyo Fishing Festival, Mr Sam Adda, says security agencies have been placed on red alert to ensure a hitch free festival. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibi near Wukari in Taraba on Saturda...
The stage is now set for the Local Government elections in Ogun State as the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commssion, OGSIEC yesterday announced July 21, 2012 as the date fixed for the conduct of elections into elective offices for the 20 Local Gove...
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has said the commission will spare no effort to make the 2015 general elections not only the best in Nigeria’s political history, but also the most accepta...
Malam Mohammed Garba, the National President of NUJ, has said that the insurance policy initiated by the union will become compulsory for all working journalists in Nigeria from 2013. Garbamade the statement in Lafia on Friday while address...
The Ogun Government on Friday inaugurated six Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and 125 security vans to beef up security in the state, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Gov. Ibikunle Amosun said at the ceremony in Abeokuta that th...
The FCT Sector Command of the FRSC will on May 1, begin the enforcement of the ban on the covering of number plates, Mr Sunday Ajayi, the sector’s Head of Operation, has said. Ajayi, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nige...
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Friday dismissed the appeal filed by the Labour Party (LP) against the emergence of Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu as senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District. The National Assembly/ Legislative House Election...
The House of Representatives yesterday threatened to arm twist the executive arm of government to ensure the total implementation of recommendations (when adopted) of the severely indicting report of the Lower House probe of the Federal Government&rsqu...
Benin monarch,Omono’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa yesterday said it would amount to ingratitude on the part of Benin people not to vote for incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, especially following what he described ...
The governorship candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, General Charles Airhiavbere (retd) has again recorded massive support as 9,956 residents of Oredo Local Government Area volunteered to take his campaign to the ...
Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau has carried out a minor cabinet reshuffle with Alhaji Abdulhammed Gamzaki, the former Commissioner for Special Duties, assigned to the Ministry of Transport. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Abraham Yiljap, who anno...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State has denied involvement in the fuel subsidy scam as reported in some national newspapers. Dankwambo made the denial in Gombe on Thursday while assenting to the fiscal responsibility Law recently passed by the State ...
The House of Representatives on Thursday directed its Housing and Finance, as well as Banking and Currency to conduct a public hearing to ascertain contributors to the National Housing Fund. The committees are to ascertain the amount they have contribu...