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The Controller General, Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed has disclosed that the process leading to the promotion of more personnel in the year 2017 has been initiated. Ahmed made the disclosure while speaking at the decoration ceremony of the 18 newly promoted Assistant Controllers of Prisons at the Service Headquarters in Abuja. “It is […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has constituted an eight -man Committee on the Review of Electoral Constituencies in Nigeria, as well as four (4) other key Committees to assist the Commission in its quest to improve on the electoral process. In a letter signed by the Acting Secretary to the Commission, Musa H. Adamu, […]

Senator Shehu Sani [APC, Kaduna Central] has opened up on the meeting he had with Chief John Odigie-Oyegun – led National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Sani, who visited the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, said the party leaders were not opposed to the investigation of the alleged […]

On a day that a London court ruled that former Delta state governor James Ibori, could return to Nigeria, he signalled a possible political comeback in the country. He told Reuters he would return within days to Nigeria. Ibori was released from British prison  in December after serving half of his 13-year sentence, taking into […]

The Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mr. Francis Bolaji Odesanya, has died.  The police boss was said to have died this morning in an undisclosed hospital abroad after a brief illness. He was the 37th Rivers State Commissioner of Police, having succeeded Mr. Foluso Adebanjo on July 12, 2016. Odesanya joined the force on February 2, 1986, as […]Read More

The Federal Government has insisted on getting protection for all the witnesses in the trial of ‎former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki. FG for a second time applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja for protection of witnesses again on Tuesday.  The fresh application was brought to court by Chief Oladipo Okpeseyi, a […]

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged the judiciary to continue to be courageous and see to it that officials of the federal government that are disobeying court orders, especially the Federal High Court, Abuja judgement, ordering the release of the leader of the […]

A cross section of stakeholders have condemned Nigeria’s planned contribution of about $20 billion (out of $50 billion) budgeted for the draining and recharging the drying Lake Chad. A study set up by the Chad River Commission, in September 2016, had returned a report that if nothing urgent was done by 2018, the river would […]

Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) stationed in Lagos has on  Monday seized a cache of arms made up of 661 automatic guns. The Comptroller-General, NCS,  said that a trailer was intercepted by his men around the Mile 2/Apapa axis of Lagos, and upon routine check was discovered to be carrying 49 boxes of […]

Apostle Johnson Suleman, the general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, has said that his invitation by the Department of State Services (DSS) is in order. Suleman told journalists in Abuja on Monday that, “I presume the right thing was done”. “They have been in touch with me to come and that is why I […]

The Kiyawa Local Government Council of Jigawa State will immunise no fewer that 79,000 children against polio in the ongoing 2017 polio immunisation exercise, the authorities have announced. The council’s Information Officer, Malam Balarabe Abdullahi, told our correspondent that the council targets total prevention of polio. Abdullahi said that the council had received enough doses […]

The Kaduna Polytechnic Chapter of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), said on Monday that it would not participate in the warning strike ordered by the national executive council of the union. Dr Aliyu Ibrahim, the ASUP Chairman, said this in Kaduna that the chapter was not part of the decision to embark on the […]