An explosion that occurred around around 12:30pm on Friday, at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, office located at Calabar Road, by the Millennium Park in Calabar, led to so many injuries and some reports of death. It was ascertained that some persons were roasted while others sustained third degree burns in the inferno following […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the immediate deployment of 22 top directors from the Budget office. Authorities said the redeployment is part of a service-wide posting involving about 184 senior staff in various ministries, departments and agencies, in the federal civil service. But the 22 officials were moved less than a month after […]
Continue ReadingChief Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, who is known as the Iyaloja General of Nigeria and daughter of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, led several women who converged at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, on Thursday, in protesting the non-inclusion of market women in President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government plans. According to her, […]
Continue ReadingThe date set for the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal on 13 counts of alleged false assets declaration is March 11. In a judgement delivered on 5th of Feruary, Supreme Court, gave a nod for the trial to begin after dismissing the Senate President’s objection to […]
Continue ReadingMen of the Nigerian Police Force, from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos, on Wednesday abducted two teenage children in order to arrest their father. It was learnt that the police officers stormed the residence of the children’s father, one Mr. Mustard Ramadan over a crime allegation but did not meet the businessman who […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the industrial action that began on Wednesday morning, as a direct result of the restructuring of the NNPC, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) staff union has suspended its industrial action, which shut down all facilities of the corporation on Wednesday. The decision to suspend the industrial action was made by NNPC, via its […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Air Force carried out aerial assault on Boko Haram positions at their camp at Iza, Borno state, an action which chased the insurgents into the Sambisa Forest.The air attacks were carried out along with a ground offensive by troops of 121 Task Force Battalion who consolidated on the gains of the air strikes […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has stated that the federal government has not unbundled the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, but only restructuring. The minister who spoke to state house correspondents, said he was alarmed by reports that the NNPC had been split into separate entities. “We have not unbundled NNPC. […]
Continue ReadingEkiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has restated his resolve to continuously criticise the Buhari-led government’s bad policies despite the recent clampdown on state officials by operatives of the Department of State Security Service (SSS). Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in a statement, said Mr. Fayose, was reacting to the SSS raid for the first […]
Continue ReadingThe police in Lagos have arrested the contractor handling the collapsed five-storey building in Lekki area of the state. The police spokesperson in Lagos, Oladapo Badmus, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. Ms. Badmus gave his name as Odofin Taiwo, adding that he was currently under investigation. Meanwhile, […]
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