By JOY ADARA, Abuja – In commemoration of the World Toilet Day the Federal Government has said it would increase surveillance to ensure the nation is open defecation free and achieve healthy environment. Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, gave the assurance at an event to mark the...
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has rescued 100 children and apprehended 120 suspected traffickers within six months in Akwa Ibom. Uyo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, Mr Ubong Ekwere, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview...
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said doctors told him that his brother, Sani, would die in an hour, and that he died when it was time, “watching the life support machine going down until it stopped working.” Dangote stated this when the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji...
The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has generated N50.98 billion between January and October 2021. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Adamu Abdulkadir, made this known in Ibadan on Friday while displaying 5,046 bags of foreign rice and other contraband seized by the command. Abdulkadir said...
BY RICHARD ABU, Nasarawa – An international organization, Network For Africa Congregational Theology (NetACT) made up of pastors and lecturers from theological seminaries has resolved to change the backward nature of Nigeria and Africa in general through the gospel of unity and progress engendered by good political leadership. The...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, and the Controller General (CG), Federal Fire Service (FFS), Liman Alhaji Ibrahim have inaugurated the State House Fire Alert Centre. Commissioning the Centre, Umar said it would safeguard national assets and ensure rapid response to emergencies within...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – An unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), currently standing trial, runs contrary to the doctrine of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Receiving a group under the aegis of...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and others, challenging the appointment of a consultant to monitor the spending of the $311 million repatriated loot of the former Head of State,...
Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has said all the 36 governors in Nigeria are helpless when it comes to tackling insecurity. Governor Ishaku stated this on Thursday while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today. He was of the opinion that the country’s security structure does not...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on Nigerian governments and community stakeholders to build toilets in both public and private schools, markets, motor parks, office complexes, public places, business and other commercial places to promote behavioural change among the people in the society....
Nigeria has been given the mandate to host the 2022 Global Information Literacy Week of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The decision was reached at the UNESCO headquarters on Thursday in Paris, France, during a meeting of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu has renewed the call for Igbos to work with President Muhammadu Buhari and appreciate him for the infrastructure in the South-East. Kalu in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, said that supporting Buhari...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has set a dateline of December 15, less than a month from now, for contractors to complete the state’s first flyover and three other major projects. The governor gave the deadline on Thursday evening, during an inspection...
The Federal Government has called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to use its global platform in fighting fake news. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the call at the ongoing 41st UNESCO General Conference in Paris, France. Alhaji Mohammed, at...
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has condemned the condition the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is being subjected into at the detention facility of the Department of the State Services. Kanu’s counsel, Aloy Ejimakor and Ifeanyi Ejiofor, had alleged in a statement on...
THE Ogun State House of Assembly has ordered security agencies to arrest a Nollywood star, Goriola Hassan, for allegedly parading himself as the Oba-elect of Imobi in the Ijebu-East Local Government Area of the state. The Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, during plenary on Thursday ordered that Hassan should be arrested...
Do you believe you are a Leader? This belief that you are a leader needs to be a conviction you feel within you; a conviction you have and seek to exhibit in the things you do and in the way you do them. When you think of yourself as...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Some passengers on Thursday night escaped death as two cars got burnt in Ibadan, when a fully loaded petrol tanker, went up in flames. According to an eye witness, the incident occurred at Agodi area of Ibadan, on Total Garden-Gate road, near the Nigerian...
As the world marks the 2021 World Toilet Day (WTD) on Friday, UNICEF has said the states of Abia, Zamfara, and Akwa-Ibom rank least while Kwara, Plateau, and Ebonyi rank highest in open defecation in Nigeria. According to it, there has been limited progress over the last two years...
The National Economic Council (NEC) says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh N656 billion Bridge Financing Facility to the 36 States. Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, disclosed this on Thursday at a virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, which...