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Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter failure of the Nigerian authorities to learn from the heartbreak of Chibok and, ultimately, to...

  The National Assembly has forwarded the harmonised version of the bill on Nigerian Peace Corps to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent after its passage by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Transmission of the bill for Presidential assent by the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Mr....

  The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) says it has deployed 100 personnel across Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa states for the supplementary elections on Saturday. In an interview on Friday, Farouk Dogondaji, the commission’s zonal commander in Kano, said the officers would be stationed across polling units and collation...

  Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has described the recent appointments of principal officers for the University of Ilesa as part of the fulfilment of his promise to nurture a sustainable tertiary institution for Ijeshaland. Adeleke in a statement signed by his Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on Friday also reaffirmed...

Aviation workers’ unions will embark on a two-day strike from Monday over the alleged failure to implement the conditions of service agreement between the union and some aviation agencies. This is contained in a statement issued and signed by officials of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, Air Transport...

      it is fake news to mention n14m as cost of a borehole   In a bid for sustainable water supply to the people of Osun state, Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed a phased rehabilitation of selected water works and water pipeline networks across Osun state. This new...

Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) in collaboration with key capital market stakeholders will be organising a workshop to address the major challenges and opportunities in the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) market. The NGX ETFs Conference themed “ETFs in the Nigerian Capital Market: Opportunities and Challenges” will hold virtually on Wednesday, 19...

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, Friday, April 14, 2023, arrested forty-four (44) suspected internet fraudsters in Ibadan, Oyo State. They were arrested at Apete and Bodija areas of Ibadan following actionable intelligence on their fraudulent cyber activities. The alleged cybercriminals...

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom and the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) have said that the 2023 national census should be suspended until Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are returned to their ancestral lands. The national population and housing census is scheduled to hold from May 3 to 7. Ortom and the...

Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied receiving any letter of apology from the British government over his detention by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London. Obi made the rebuttal through the Head, Media and Communications of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade. A statement...