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The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), said on Monday that the agency would strengthen partnership between Nigeria and the Republic of Korea to enhance the maritime industry. The Head, Public Relations Department in NIMASA, Hajia Lami Tumaka, said this in a statement in Lagos. The statement said that the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr […]

President Buhari promised Nigerians change, eleven months into office, the people have seen a change, but not the one they had hoped for. Things have gone from bad to worse. Nigerians now live with no fuel, no light, no water, no money and no security. Though President Buhari was elected to govern Nigeria, a country in […]

The Lagos Government on Monday said it would not hesitate to seal the properties of residents who default in paying their Land Use Charge (LUC), just as it warned that it may explore the option of prosecuting defaulters according to the Law. Addressing journalists at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa Secretariat, Commissioner for […]

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Sule Kazaure on Monday morning took over as the 17th DG of the scheme, promising to prioritise welfare of corps members and the staff. Kazaure, who was speaking at the handing over ceremony in Abuja acknowledged that the tasks ahead are huge, but with […]

The New Nigeria Group, a Civil Society Organisation has called on the federal government to sack the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) chairman, Danladi Yakubu Umar over allegations of corruption levelled against him while maintaining that a ”wounded personality cannot be fair in his rulings.” Also, the group alleged that senior colleagues of the CCT […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government is working hard to bring the culture and tourism sectors into the mainstream of the nation’s economy. The Minister, who stated this in Lagos at a meeting with Arts, Culture and Tourism Correspondents, said the sectors are among those that have […]

It was an exciting evening on Saturday, April 9, 2016 as staff of pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc gathered at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Nigeria, to celebrate the bank’s staff that have performed exceptionally well in the 2015 financial year. It is a tradition that the bank […]

Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State has closed down the Government House Clinic and redeployed its medical personnel to public hospitals in the state.  This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Samuel Aruwan, the Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity and released on Sunday.  According to the statement, the drugs […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja has ordered a day-to-day hearing on the 13-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Justice Danladi Umar who made the order shortly before he stood down the matter for hearing by 12noon today, based the decision on provisions of sections 376 and […]

A huge political tremor has hit the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State with the State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and the party firing verbal missiles at each other.   The party said it had been trying to condone the governor, but that its patience has gone overboard. The governor now throws caution to the […]

Officials of the Nigerian Army on Sunday said they have discovered a food storage facility owned by the Boko Haram sect. The food storage was discovered by troops fighting the terrorist group, according to the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, in a statement. Apart from this, materials used for mounting sentries by the […]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights asking him to “use your good offices and position to urgently request the National Assembly of Nigeria, specifically the Senate, to withdraw amendments to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal […]