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Yobe State governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has reaffirmed his administration’s readiness to support the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the ongoing fight against drug trafficking and abuse across the state. The governor gave the assurance yesterday during a public destruction exercise of large quantities of illicit drugs seized by the NDLEA. The […]
Following Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State’s threat to walk out any commissioner or appointee who failed to wear President Bola Tinubu’s cap to the State Executive Council meeting, appointees yesterday rushed to cap makers in compliance with the governor’s directive. The increase in demand is seen as a welcome development among cap makers as […]
Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of a suspected criminal following a confrontation with a soldier on duty at the Delta Marine Logistics and Technical (DMLT) Estate in Warri, Delta State. According to a statement issued yesterday by Captain Iliyasu Bawa-Rijau, the acting assistant director of Army Public Relations, 63 Brigade, Asaba, the incident occurred […]
President-general of the Orluzurumee, Socio-cultural Organisation, Hon. Ugochukwu, has called for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. At the organisation’s executive session held in Owerri, Imo State, the president-general emphasised that the prolonged detention of Kanu has continued to fuel tension in the South-East and hinder genuine […]
A former presidential aide and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ita Enang, has asked the federal government to take the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to court for contempt over its request for the payment of unpaid salaries, among other demands. Enang, who made this known in an interview yesterday in […]
A former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd), has said military officers must see themselves as defenders of the nation’s democracy and custodians of its stability. He spoke on Tuesday in Abuja during the decoration of two senior officers of the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police, Col. Ibrahim Bunza and Col. […]
House of Representatives has resolved to probe the abandoned $35 million modular refinery project in Brass, Bayelsa State, four years after the huge financial commitment. This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance moved by Hon. Billy Osawaru (APC, Edo) at plenary yesterday. Osawaru said that sometime in 2020, the Nigerian Content […]
The Senate has charged the Federal Ministry of Works to expedite action on the re-award and completion of the Aniba-Dekina-Shintaku Road in Kogi State. The Red Chamber described the highway as a critical transport corridor linking the South-East, South-South and northern part of Nigeria. Senator Isah Jibrin (Kogi East), who moved the motion yesterday in […]
The two-day Africa Climate Forum 2025 (ACF 2025) ended yesterday in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, with the federal government calling for an inclusive climate transition for all member countries and their citizens. The minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo (SAN), attended the event. At it, African leaders and partners called for bolder, greener and […]
This week, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared a two-week warning strike. This followed the expiration of its 14-day ultimatum to the federal government to address lingering issues such as unpaid Earned Academic Allowances, withheld salaries, and, most importantly, the government’s failure to implement the 2009 agreement. In what appears to be an […]