In a major blow to Police’s Operation Puff Adder, armed men blocked the Kaduna-Abuja highway on Monday, opened fire on some vehicles and abducted the chairman of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Mohammad Abubakar and his daughter. Abubakar’s driver was killed. Two other persons were also injured. The attack, which punctured the claimed successes of […]
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Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced registration for the issuance of the new 10-year electronic passports to Nigerians. NIS public relations officer, Sunday James disclosed this on Monday, when he took journalists around the data capture centre in the federal capital territory (FCT). The new passport is expected to integrate details of enrollees as captured […]
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The chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Abdulaziz Yari, has warned incoming governors to be prepared for another cycle of recession in 2020. Yari, Zamfara state governor who spoke at the opening the ceremony of an induction programme for newly-elected and returning governors in Abuja, said there is a possibility of a recession by the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the donation of $500,000 to the government of Guinea Bissau to support the forthcoming election. According to a series of tweets on the verified Twitter handle of Presidency Nigeria @NGRPresident, Buhari made the donations in response to an urgent request for assistance by the government of Guinea Bissau towards […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after his Wednesday working visit to inaugurate some developmental projects executed by the Lagos State Government. Buhari and his entourage arrived the airport at exactly 3 p.m. The President left the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, at exactly 3:20 p.m. aboard a Nigerian Air Force […]
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The Federal Government has announced that it is decentralising the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office for ease of operations, adding that this will cut down the time for processing licences from 45 to 15 days. The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Bwari Abubakar, disclosed this in Lagos on Tuesday, during the Nigeria Mining […]
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GLOW Health, a wellness and nutrition services company has announced the commencement of its health services to the general public in Lagos, Nigeria. In a well attended ceremony that was held at its Ikoyi office over the weekend, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GLOW Health, Miss Adanna Monde, said the business is service-oriented and offers […]
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The Imo State Command of the Nigeria Nigeria Police Force has arrested a woman who sold her newborn baby just six hours after the male child was born for N850,000. Chinonye Oparaocha, the mother, was part of a five-member child trafficking syndicate arrested by operatives of the Imo State Police Command. The other suspects are […]
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Abubakar Atiku, the defeated presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has debunked notions that he was Cameroonian by birth and thus not qualified to contest the election of 23 February, 2019. Atiku who was born in Jada in 1946, in present day Adamawa state, but then part of Northern Cameroon, said he was born […]
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The First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari has disclosed her plan to establish a private university to be known as “Muhammadu Buhari University”. She disclosed this on Saturday during a town hall meeting in Yola organised by her in collaboration with concern indigenes of Adamawa. Mrs Buhari, who did not however reveal when or where […]
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