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  President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday commissioned ‘OPERATION SWIFT RESPONSE’ as a border drill exercise to checkmate the illegal activities of smugglers across the nation’s borders. His spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement, explained that this is part of the Federal Government’s effort to ensure food security and improve...

  The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Adedamola Kuti, has said that Berger/Kara Bridge section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will be opened to motorists on Sunday, March 1. Kuti told journalists on Saturday afternoon that construction work had been completed on that portion of the road. He said the...

  calls for new constitution praises South-west governors on Amotekun Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has spoken again on the rising insecurity concern in Nigeria as well as other issues he believes militating against the peaceful existence of Nigeria as a nation. .Obasanjo, who in his speech at the 1st...

Watford FC proved to be the giant killers on Saturday by beating run-away EPL leaders, Liverpool unbeaten run. The relegation-threatened team beat the EPLbleaders in EPL, breaking the Meyerside side’s 18-match consecutive wins with three goals no nothing....

  The era of entrepreneurs borrowing from banks and not paying back is gone, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele said on Saturday. Emefiele spoke in Lagos where he came for an assessment tour of the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company in Ibeju-Lekki. He said that the...

  United Bank of Nigeria (UBA) Plc has posted a profit after tax of N89.1 billion for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2019. The profit after tax represented a growth of 13.3 percent to N89.1 billion compared with N78.6 billion recorded in the correpsonding period of 2018. Its profit...

A turnover of 1.547 billion shares worth N24.263 billion in 21,646 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), in contrast to a total of 1.499 billion shares valued at N17.907 billion that exchanged hands last week in 18,515 deals. The Financial...

  For what seem to be normal for most people who celebrate their birthdays every year, some who are born on Feb. 29, see it as very special as they get to celebrate it every four years. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a leap year occurs once every...

  Mr Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of State for Works and Housing, on Friday, said the Federal Government would construct weigh bridges across the country to checkmate excessive overloading of vehicles plying federal roads. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a weigh bridge uses electronic or digital monitor to...

The 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) has revealed that the proportion of women who are circumcised decreased from 25 per cent in 2013 to 20 per cent in 2018. Mrs Maureen Zubie-Okolo, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, said this in Port-Harcourt at the Media Dialogue for Editors and Reporters...