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The Nigerian Customs Service ( NCS) has announced the promotion of 1,561 junior officers. The announcement was made on Friday in a press release by spokesman for the service, Joseph Attah According to Attah, the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (Rtd) approved the promotion of 1,561 Junior Officers to various ranks. The […]

The 8th Senate will on Monday hold a first-of-its-kind public hearing on the 2017 Appropriation Bill submitted to the legislature by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to a statement by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Public Hearing is aimed at allowing stakeholders and members of the public […]

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has said the Southern Kaduna crisis is more serious than what many see because there is a 37-year-old history behind it with 11 incidences so far since the first crisis broke out in 1980. El-Rufai who spoke at a session with select journalists in Lagos, identified as the reason […]

Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told a committee of the House of Representatives that $9.2 million and 750,000 pounds were recovered from a residence in Kaduna state. Although he did not indicate precisely when the raid by EFCC operatives was carried out, NAN has learnt that […]

A former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, has asked Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos to permit her to travel abroad to receive treatment for breast cancer. She said doctors at the National Hospital recommended that she receives further treatment abroad after suffering a relapse after a surgery. […]

The Federal Government on Thursday announced a lifeline to financially distressed Arik Airlines to continue to keep it as a going concern in the aviation industry. The management of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, said the decision to intervene clearly underscores the government’s commitment to instill sanity in the country’s aviation sector to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, may return to Nigeria from his vacation to the United Kingdom on Saturday, if everything goes according to plan. Leadership newspaper came up with the report saying it relied on the information from a senior official in the presidency on Thursday. “Barring any last minute change, we are expecting the president back […]

The senate has called on the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi to immediately withdraw a comment credited to him in which he said that the senate was delaying infrastructure development. Aliyu Sabi, spokesman of the senate, said this on Wednesday in a statement signed by him. Sabi emphasised that the senate was not delaying any construction and that the […]Read More

Russian authorities have said seven of their sailors and one Ukrainian have been abducted on Nigeria’s territorial waters.  Hence the Russian embassy in Nigeria has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in locating the abducted sailors. “The BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria,” the embassy said on Wednesday […]

A lawyer, Mr Babatunde Olokun, has slammed a N10 million suit on Sen. Buruji Kashamu (PDP-Ogun). Olokun is pressing charges against Kashamu over alleged unlawful arrest, continuous threat to life, harassment and infringement on fundamental human rights. Olokun, a legal practitioner, who filed the application at the Federal High Court in Abuja, alleged that the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, for alleged money laundering. The SAN was arraigned alongside a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, before Justice R.M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Sulaiman, a professor of Political Science and International […]

Personnel of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) are no longer allowed to erect checkpoints in Kaduna and other urban centres in the state, authorities in the State have said. The new directive was contained in a statement issued in Kaduna on Wednesday by Mr Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant to Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i on Media […]