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The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday announced the deployment of six senior officers. This was contained in a statement signed by Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, the Director, Air Force Public Relations and Information. According to the statement, AVM Alex Bade...
The CPC in Kebbi has called on INEC to be absolutely neutral in the conduct of the gubernatorial re-run and State House of Assembly bye-elections. The Secretary of the CPC in the state, Alhaji Mohammed Jabbo, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Wedne...
The Commander-General of the Abia Vigilance Group, Mr Martins Idika, has advised state governors in the country to establish vigilance groups to tackle the rising wave of crime. Idika gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...
The Senate has mandated its Committee on National Security and Intelligence to investigate the failed rescue operation that resulted in the death of a Briton and an Italian in Sokoto. The Committees on Defence and Army and Foreign Affairs were also man...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday hailed the Senate for rejecting the bill seeking that workers should vote before embarking on strike. The Senate on Tuesday disapproved the bill which sought to amend the labour law. In a statement signed ...
Mr Lawrence Alabi, the Port Manager, Rivers Port Complex, Port Harcourt, Rivers, on Wednesday apologised to the Rivers State Police Command over the damage to three of its gunboats. Alabi told reporters in Port Harcourt that the management of the...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday in Abuja that its Global Communication Network (GCN) facility would enhance effective and secure communication among Nigerian embassies worldwide. Mr Mohammed Danjaji, the Director of ICT in the ministr...
The House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and Other Institutions, on Wednesday accused the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of irregularities in recruitment and regulatory processes. Rep. Herman Hembe (PDP-Benue), the Chairman of...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday sealed up the premises of the MTN Call Centre in Jos, citing the ``undue exploitatiion and shortchanging of staff''. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Jibrin Bancir, Chairman, Plate...
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, yesterday, announced the arrest of 15 suspected members of various cult groups in allegedly involved in the upsurge of violent clashes in the State owned Niger Delta University (NDU) and some parts of the State....
Prominent chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have endorsed the nomination form of Chief Mrs Remi Adiuku Bakare, who is bidding for the party’s National Auditor position at its forthcoming national convention. Adiuku, a former Commis...
A 65-year old widower has threatened to take legal action to compel the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC) to pay his late wife’s death benefits. Mr. Abraham Agwo, was the husband of late Mrs. Matilda N Agwo (nee Uzowuru), an FRSC officer who...
Former Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court, asking it to set aside the judgments of the Court of Appeal in Ilorin and Ado Ekiti which nullified his election and upheld the election of Governor Kayode Fayemi. The ...
As the Osun State congress of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) remains four days away, five of the leading Chairmanship aspirants have stepped down for the consensus candidate, Honourable Kayode Idowu. The aspirants in a joint statement ye...
Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) yesterday attributed the delay for the review of the 1999 Constitution on the non-provision of funds for it in the 2011 budget. Ndoma-Egba made the clarification when national officers of the Nigerian Bar ...