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The  Kaduna State Government says it is open to new ideas on ways to address the lingering security challenges across the state. The state Acting Governor, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe made this known on Tuesday in Kaduna when she received participants of Advance Defence Intelligence Course 13, of the Defence Intelligence...

 The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Ministerial Assessment Committee on EndSARS Protest Damages, has advised business community within the territory to always insure their businesses with credible insurance organisations. Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, gave the advice when he received submissions from some affected business owners of the...

Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun (SAN), the  Vice-Chancellor of  Lagos State University (LASU), has urged Nigerians to embrace Micro, Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs), saying  they are important agents of economic growth across the world. Fagbohun made the appeal at the second Research Fair of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos...

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation, Senator Theodore Orji, has said that the Senate was not carried along in the planned arrangement by the Federal Government, through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to either sell or concession some national assets in order to fund part of the 2021 budget....

A Nigerien helicopter has been allegedly gunned down by suspected Boko Haram fighters in Borno state. A senior security source told The Nation that five passengers of the helicopter died in the incident. “The helicopter was said to be hovering around the Banki area around the Bama axis and it...

  The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, on Tuesday, said that President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to do whatever it takes to forestall a repeat of the #EndSARS protests that rocked parts of the country recently. Dingyadi disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says it loaned 83 countries the sum of $165 billion dollars, including $16.1 billion dollars in concessional financing to 49 low-income countries in FY2020. The Fund said this in its 2020 IMF Annual Report titled “A Year Like No Other”, released in Washington D.C on...

  Nigeria recorded 157 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 65,305, according to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Again, death toll remains 1,163 after zero deaths was recorded in the last 24 hours. The last death...

The hike in food prices and other individual consumption across the country further increased the rate of inflation in Nigeria to 14.23 per cent in October. Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday showed that the country’s inflation increased again in October, moving up by 0.52 per...

Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday evening took aim at President Donald Trump for his refusal to concede after losing the Nov. 3, presidential election. In an Instagram post, Mrs Obama said the love of country required everyone to respect election results even when unfavorable. She wrote: “The presidency...