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Dr Bernard Aliu, the president of International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO has stressed the need for aviation agencies in the country to imbibe the culture of development of human capacity building. Dr Aliu said this while addressing union members from Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and National Union of Air Transport Employees […]

Following the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s call on the British Government for intervention in his case, the United Kingdom has responded by saying it has been visiting the arrested and detained leader in prison. The spokesman for the British High Commission, Mr. Joe Abuku in an email said; “We have provided […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU, Niger Delta University branch, have carpeted the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, over their unpaid three-month salaries. Also, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and the National Association of Technologists (NAAT) in the state-owned university, have […]

The Nigerian Army on Saturday announced the re-opening of the Maimalari Cantonment Mammy Market, Maiduguri, after three years it closed down due to insurgency. Brig.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, made the announcement at the launch of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Investment Initiatives for Barracks […]

The out spoken Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop what he described as his needless foreign trips.   Fayose described Buhari’s trip to the United States of America on Wednesday for the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, “while Nigerians are suffering at home”, […]

Nigeria will get its first refinery under President Muhammadu Buhari this year, according to the Integrated Oil and Gas Ltd which said on Saturday that its $116 million modular refinery would commence production before the end of 2016. Speaking on the progress of work after conducting a tour of the refinery with journalists, the Group […]

Three men have been arrested in Rivers State with 100,000 litres of illegally refined diesel costing a total of N20.4 million, the Nigerian Navy said in Port Harcourt on Sunday. Cdr. Ugochukwu Ajulu, who heads the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder’s Base Operations, told journalists in Port Harcourt, the state capital that the that three […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday in Washington DC assured Nigerians in the diaspora of his administration’s determination to move the country forward as rapidly as possible. Speaking at an audience with a group of Nigerians who have distinguished themselves in various professions in the United States, President Buhari said that the present administration is fully committed […]

The crisis in the Bayelsa state chapter of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), took another twist Saturday, with the state executive of the party announcing the suspension of a former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva and four others from the party. The State chairman of the party, Timipa Tiwei Orunimighe and the […]

The Department of Petroleum Resources has sealed off four filling stations in Akwa Ibom State for selling premium motor spirit (PMS) above the federal government approved price of N86.50. DPR has also fined Jobina filling station located in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital the sum of N1 million for selling petroleum product after DPR […]

The House of Representatives is working on the amendment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act to prescribe a 20-year jail term for any politically exposed person (PEP) and those working in the private sector convicted of economic and financial crimes. The amendment bill to the EFCC Act, 2004 sponsored by Hon. Bassey […]

Kaduna state will soon embark on massive retraining of its teachers, while the state plans to recruit more teachers to provide school children with qualitative education, as 44% teachers in the state are not qualified to teach, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said. Addressing an interactive session with selected journalists in Kaduna, he said that the […]