The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Wednesday, ordered the National Examination Council (NECO) to present, store receipts for N7.2billion it paid for examination materials between January and June 2017 within 24 hours. The Committee chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide gave the directive following its consideration of a query raised to that effect by the […]
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Nigeria’s House of Representatives has ordered its committee on Aviation to investigate Maxi Air and Aero Contractors over recent accidents involving their planes. According to a motion which was moved by Umar Bala from Kano State, Max Air flight carrying 140 passengers including the Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero had an engine failure on […]
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Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, has disclosed that the new national carrier will commence operation in the first quarter of 2022. Sirika made this disclosure on Wednesday while speaking to State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. He said the new national carrier is long overdue and the private […]
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Usman Alkali Baba, the inspector General of Police on Wednesday, launched the new special security action plan, ‘OPERATION RP’ in the South-South. The IG flagged-off the special operation, at the Sharks Football Stadium, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. Baba noted that the move is a continuation of the implementation process of the special operation in the country. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Boko Haram insurgents took advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to launch attacks in Nigeria. This was contained in an article published on Tuesday in Le Point, a weekly magazine for French. It could be recalled that President Buhari on Sunday departed Abuja for France ahead of a finance summit for […]
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A young man has been arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death one month after she gave birth to a baby in Rivers state. The incident reportedly occurred last weekend in Ayambo, an island community in Bonny Local Government Area. The nursing mother identified simply as Chioma was said to be routinely beaten by her spouse, only this […]
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The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero and other passengers on Tuesday escaped death as Kano-Abuja Max Air plane developed an engine failure 10 minutes after it took off from the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA). According to reports the Max Air aircraft, marked VM1645, scheduled to take off by 1.30 pm took off at […]
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Leicester City and Super Eagles superstar, Kelechi Iheanacho has made history on Tuesday night, May 18, as the first Premier League striker to score on all seven days of the week in a single season. The in-form Nigerian striker was on target for Leicester City as they suffered a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea to achieve […]
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The Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, mandated the Ministry of Education, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to review the implementation of the National Identity Number (NIN) policy. According to the Senate, this is with a view to extending the JAMB registration deadline or suspending this requirement for prospective […]
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Kaduna State Government has announced the dismissal of all nurses below Grade Level 14 for joining the “illegal strike” which was embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state. The government also said that nurses who disconnected oxygen from a two-day-old baby in an incubator on Monday, May 17, 2021, at the […]
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