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IGP Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has deployed fifteen more police units, special forces, and technical and intelligence teams to contain further attacks in Benue State. Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, who stated this yesterday, said the Inspector-General is seriously committed to ending the killings in the state and the country. Owoseni added that the […]
ARMY Nigerian Army has inducted a unit of Cameroon Defence Forces into Operation Lafiya Dole to fast track campaign against Boko Haram insurgents. Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Onyema Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement issued in Maiduguri. Nwachukwu said the Cameroonian forces were inducted on Sunday at Gwoza, by the […]
NCC The Nigerian Communications Commission has licenced two new infrastructure companies for the southeast and northwest. The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management, Sunday Dare,made this known at a post-event interview in Lagos. He said the companies, which would emerge before the end of this month would increase the number of existing licences to four. According […]
Former President Babangida urges Nigerians to vote Buhari out, but however insist Nigerians should support him till his tenure is over in 2019. Here’s a text of the full press statement released to the media on Sunday by his spokesman, Kassim Afegbua. “In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many […]
ORON NATION Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel has assured of his commitment to equitably distribute development projects to all parts of the state. The governor made this known today when he received the people of Oro Nation under the aegis of Oron Union who paid him a thank you visit for appointing one […]
SPORTS FESTIVAL All is now set for the start of the second edition of the Akwa Ibom State Youth Sports Festival 2018. The competition will begin with the Local Government Qualifiers across all thirty one local government areas in state, from today, February 2 to Saturday February 10, 2018. Speaking to Comfort FM Sports crew […]
NNPC Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday announced plans to refurbish its entire existing pipeline and double the country’s pipeline network within the next ten years. Group Managing Director of the corporation, Maikanti Baru, stated this while inaugurating the new Board of one of its downstream subsidiaries, the Nigerian Pipeline Storage Company, in Abuja. Baru […]
NJC The legislature and executive in Abia state have come under fire for suspending the Chief Judge, Justice Theresa Uzokwe and swearing-in of Justice Obisike Orji as Acting Chief Judge of the State, without the input of the National Judicial Council. The National Judicial Council in a statement signed by the Director of Information, Soji […]
BUHARI/EAGLES Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded the Super Eagles for beating Sudan by one goal to nothing, in the semi-final of the 2018 CHAN in Marrakesh, Morocco. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said he joined millions of football fans in the country in celebrating […]
FOOTBALL Who wins the 2018 CHAN Nations Cup in Morocco? This question will be answered on Sunday when home-based Super Eagles of Nigeria file out against host, Morocco in the finals of the competition. The two final tickets were secured yesterday when Nigeria outplayed hard-fighting Sudan by a lone goal while Morocco edged out Libya […]
