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Nigeria will diligently ensure full rehabilitation of victims of Boko Haram and find lasting solutions to combat threats of terrorism in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari, said Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya. Speaking at the opening of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari reaffirmed that Boko Haram terrorists have been […]

The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has denied  opposing the appointment of Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) to also serving as chairman of the Board. NIMASA denied any link to the opposition credited to one “Mr. Momoh Alhassan, a staff of the agency” The agency said: […]

A 28-year-old man, Ikechukwu Daniel, suspected to be a member of a notorious kidnapping gang terrorizing the South Western part of the country, has been arrested by operatives of the Inspector- General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for allegedly masterminding the April 27, 2016, abduction of Senator Iyabo Anisulowo in Ogun State.   Suspects […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will soon be publishing names of candidates who have been offered admission into tertiary institution on its website. The disclosure was made by the board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in […]

Abubakar Balarabe Mahmoud (SAN), has been sworn in as the new president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Mahmoud was sworn in on Friday by the immediate past president of the association, Mr. Austine Alegeh (SAN) , in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The ceremony marked the end of the NBA 56th Annual General Conference in […]

The Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says it has accepted former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, ‎ as head of the pan Niger Delta group that will dialogue with the Federal Government. The group on Friday conveyed its readiness to disband its Aaron Team 2, ‎headed by Odein Ajumogobia and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday approved the composition of the Governing Boards of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). The appointment was contained in a statement issued by the office of the Secretary to the Federation(SGF). According to the statement, the appointment are as follows: A. NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY (NPA) […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari regards the case of a trader wh named h dog after him as mundane. He also sees the arrest and prosecution of the man who was arrested by the police in Ogun State as “a ‘laughable incident”, His spokesman, Garba Shehu, aired the President’s view said late Thursday. In a short reaction […]

Ekiti State Government has cleared the air on the status of the four persons that died during the week at Egbe Dam in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state, saying the victims were neither World Bank officials nor staff of Ekiti State Government.‎ In a statement on Friday in Ado-Ekiti by the Chief Press […]

Families of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State over two years ago have accused the Nigerian government of abandoning their daughters to suffer in captivity. The angry relatives also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign if he doesn’t have anything to do to rescue the girls. Families of the abducted […]

The Federal Government has announced that eight satellite prisons located in Bauchi State, North-east Nigeria that were earlier closed down due to the wave of Boko Haram insurgency in the zone have been re-opened soon. Controller-General of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed announced this Thursday in Abuja in a statement signed by the […]

Four World Bank officials had been reportedly drowned at Egbe Dam in Egbe Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Egbe Dam is the biggest of the six dams in the state. Mrs Folasade Akinrinmola, the chairman of the council and the state police command confirmed this […]