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Senate The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution at plenary, mandating the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, (NDPHC) to reinstate Maryam Mohammed, following her disengagement from service on June 10, …
Read moreSenate calls for reinstatement of sacked GM of Niger Delta Power Holding Coy
Some Nigerian businessmen have said that the outbreak of Coronavirus in China since January has grounded their businesses. The traders who import products from China told Newsmen in Abuja on …
Read moreCoronavirus: importers lament negative impact on businesses
Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ruled that existing laws criminalising abortion are unconstitutional and ordered them to be amended, paving the way for clearer regulation for reproductive rights. Pregnancies in Thailand …
Read moreThai court says anti-abortion laws unconstitutional
Shina Abubakar Osogbo The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC The National Youth Service Corp, NYSC has warned Corp members over activities of certain individuals who placed online advertisement claiming to …
Read moreNYSC warns corps members over fake deployment/redeployment scheme
President Muhammadu Buhari Dr Paul Enenche, Senior Pastor, Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, has urged the Federal Government to end insurgency and pay more attention to security challenges facing the …
Read moreEnenche, CAN, others urge FG to end insurgency
CBN By Chidi Nkwopara The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, received over 13,000 complaints from the banking public, recovered over N60 billion excess charges and returned same to the rightful …
One person has been reported dead after violence erupted in the seedy Olomore Market, Abeokuta on Thursday morning as dozens of Hausa traders protested the death of one of them …
By Demola Akinyemi Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of an Ilorin high court on Thursday ordered a sixty-six-year-old Contractor, Chief Joseph Oluwole Komolafe to be remanded in the custody of the Economic …
Read moreCourt orders Kwara contractor to be remanded in EFCC custody over N31M fraud
President Muhammadu Buhari The Federal Government on Thursday declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will not resign over the insecurity challenge. The minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed who made …
Read moreBuhari will not resign over insecurity, FG declares
The Senate wants to establish a rehabilitation, deradicalisation and integration agency that would see to the repentant insurgents in the country. This was disclosed on Thursday in a bill, sponsored …
Read moreSenate moves to establish agency for repentant Boko Haram members
…creates 400, 000 jobs Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief The Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL) has facilitated over N102 Billion as loans from Deposit Money Banks …
Sanni Onogu, Abuja The Senate on Thursday urged the Federal Government to review its policy on computer education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The upper chamber also called on …
Read moreSenate to FG: review ICT, computer education policy
The Senate on Thursday introduced a bill to establish an agency to de-radicalise repentant Boko Haram insurgents. The bill christened “National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalization and Integration of …
Read moreAPC senator introduces bill to create agency for repentant Boko Haram
The group said gazetting the regulations is not just enough, and the government needs to expedite actions towards its implementation.
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Police in Katsina State have killed an alleged notorious kidnapper, one Abubakar Nayabale. The Katsina Police command said it also arrested one Tanimu Salisu an associate of the dead Nayabale …
Read morePolice kill notorious kidnapper, arrest another in Katsina