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The crisis on the Mambila plateau in Taraba State escalated yesterday as scores of people were feared killed while many houses were torched in Yelwa and Mesamari villages in the Sardauna Local Government Area of the state. Though eyewitnesses claimed that over 40 people were killed in the attack which allegedly started on Saturday night, […]
BUHARI President Muhammadu Buhari will today depart for Accra, Ghana, to attend the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary holding at the Independence Square on Tuesday. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement in Abuja yesterday. According to the statement, President Buhari is the only foreign leader […]
NAFDAC The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has rejected recommendation by Governor Nasir El-Rufai-led reform panel proposal to move drug matters presently on the Exclusive List (item 21 of part I of the second schedule of the 1999 constitution) to the concurrent list. In a statement by the Director- General […]
MAYHEM An Anglican Priest, Reverend Chukwunyere Ibezim of Saint Stephen Anglican Church, Uguiri in Isiala Mbano LGA has allegedly run amok, setting ablaze two Automated Teller Machines (ATM) of the Imo Micro Finance Bank at Aba Branch in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State. The priest whose action caused confusion in the […]
BOKO HARAM The Nigerian government is set to release about ninety five former Boko Haram terrorists after series of training, vocational skills acquisition and rehabilitation courses. The repentant terrorists were trained by the Nigerian Army wing charged with the responsibility of Deracialising, Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Gombe State. The commandant of the camp, Colonel Adegoke […]
OSIBANJO-2 Simmilarly, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has spoken on the reason he and President Muhammadu Buhari have not visited Dapchi in Yobe state where one hundred and ten students were abducted two weeks ago. Both men have been criticised for not paying condolence visits to places where abductions and avoidable deaths were recorded in recent times […]
JAMB Barring any last minute change, this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), will begin on Friday and is scheduled to run till March 17. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, insistent yesterday that the exams will go on as planned. While announcing that candidates for the 2018 UTME can […]
AUTONOMY Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, says that local government autonomy had not been rejected by states houses of assembly in the on-going constitution amendment process, as has been speculated. NULGE said the bill on local government autonomy was still under consideration by twenty six houses of assembly across the country, as only […]
OSINBAJO Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has claimed that appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari are in of favour Christians as well as the southern part of the country. Speaking in an interview with a group of journalists and social media practitioners in Lagos weekend, the vice president countered allegations of nepotism against the President. The […]
NEWS HEADLINES * PRESIDENT BUHARI TRAVELLS TO ACCRA AS ONLY FORIEGN LEADER TO ATTEND GHANA’S 61ST INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATION TOMORROW * OSIBANJO ABSOLVES BUHARI OF NEPOTISM ACCUSATION, SAYS SOUTHERNERS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE GOTTEN PLUM JOBS IN THE ADMINISTRATION * NIGERIA UNION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES DEBUNK CLAIMS THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTOMY HAS BEEN REJECTED BY STATE […]
