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EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The Federal Road Safety Corps has issued a stern warning to fleet operators to desist from tampering with the calibrated Speed Limiting Devices in their vehicles for whatever reason. The FRSC said such act attracts impoundment of the vehicles and subsequent compulsory re-installation and calibration of...

Six months after he was arrested in Kano, Hamisu Bala, suspected Taraba kidnap kingpin has been charged with 16 counts of terrorism, murder and kidnapping. From the court filings, the bedrock of the police case is the kidnapping in Takum on 16 February 2019 of a petrol dealer Usman...

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, on the joyous occasion of his 60th birthday on Feb. 6, 2020. The president, in a congratulatory message by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday extended good wishes...

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Presidency has released some salient points about the Nigeria Visa Policy (NVP) 2020, following the official launch of the new policy by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President (Media...

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has stressed the need for country’s policy elites to raise their voices loud enough in matters of national concern and public discourse, especially regarding issues of national unity. He stated this when the Executive Council of the Alumni...

Operatives of the Lagos State Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), have arrested a Lebanese who hoodwinked and trafficked a mother of three to Lebanon after promising her a whooping monthly salary of $2000. The victim, simply identified as Olayide, said the...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) joined the rest of the world to commemorate the World Cancer Day by hosting cancer change agents and survivors in a Closing Gong Ceremony on Tuesday, at The Exchange House in Lagos. In line with the 2020 theme, “I am and...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Tuesday hosted a Workshop on the legal and regulatory requirements of Derivatives trading for capital market operators at The Exchange House in Lagos. The workshop organised in collaboration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was to guide market participants...

Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Entebbe on Monday signals that Israel’s approach to dealing with one of the most strategically vital areas in the region, is bearing fruit. Israel must fend off Turkey, Iran, Qatar...

The unbanked and underbanked, two groups at the centre of retail banking, need to be captured for the financial system to achieve its full potential. The KPMG Nigeria Banking Industry Customer Experience Survey says customers have expectations about how their needs will be met and meeting this requires banks...

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – Amid a gale of public protests over the worsening security situation in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he feels the pain of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and that of the family of Pastor Lawan Andimi who was brutally...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged for critical improvement of cancer services in low-and middle-income countries, warning that cancer cases will increase by 60 per cent over the next two decades, if current trends continue. WHO made the call in a statement posted on its...

Hopes have been dashed an experimental vaccine could protect people against HIV, the virus that causes Aids. The National Institutes of Health has stopped its HVTN 702 trial, of more than 5,000 people in South Africa, as it found the jab did not prevent HIV. Experts expressed “deep disappointment”...

Kenya’s former President Daniel arap Moi is dead. The former teacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving President and transformed the country’s political landscape with his iron-fist rule for more than two decades died at the Nairobi Hospital in the capital in the early hours of February 4, 2020. He was...

Turkish side Trabzonspor have condemned racial abuse aimed at former Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi following their win over Fenerbahce on Saturday. The Nigeria international, 32, was targeted on social media after a 2-1 victory that moved Trabzonspor above their opponents into third place, according to the bbc. The...

Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has denied receiving any correspondence from Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) East China, requesting that its members be evacuated from that country owing to the coronavirus epidemic. NIDCOM made the denial in a statement signed by Abdur-Rahman Balogun its Head of Media and Public...

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, and a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Senior Economist (Communications Department), Maurice Soto, (both middle) after a consultation exercise on Nigeria/IMF Article IV in the minister’s office on Monday. Minister of State for...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed that the Federal Government has embarked on a deliberate and comprehensive consolidation of the security situation in the country with plans to recruit more troops and officers to beef up the personnel of security agencies in order to contain the threats...

At a particular stage in a nation’s history, God will always raise up people, standard bearers, who will be a light unto their people, who will salvage them from the vagaries and vicissitudes of life. He raised Moses, Joshua, Samson, King David, etc., who at one time or the...

JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a committee to periodically review the security situation in the country amidst growing concerns. One of such concerns has been the call by lawmakers to rejig the nation’s security architecture in one hand. On the other hand, to fire the...