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NBC The Federal Government is to set up a National Content Development Fund to assist content developers in producing quality programmes. Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Mr. Moddebo Kawu, announced the gesture at a Content Development Workshop which took place recently at Ilorin. Mr. Kawu said the commission will seek assistance from financial […]
NSCDC Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Niger state says it has mobilized over one thousand five hundred operatives to ensure a hitch-free visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state Thursday. NSCDC Commandant, Philip Ayuba, who made this known in Minna, said that the command had made robust security arrangements with sister agencies […]
POLICE Nigeria Police has refuted claims that Policemen attached to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, protested over unpaid allowance since 2015, saying none of its personnel is owed salary or allowances. The refutal which was contained in a statement issued in Abuja today, by the Force spokesman, Jimoh Moshood also denied claims that senior Police Officers […]
DAPCHI Parents of the missing schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State will tomorrow visit Dapchi town to express sympathy with parents of the one hundred and ten schoolgirls abducted by insurgents last month. It was gathered that the visit was essentially to sympathize with parents of the recently abducted schoolgirls from Government Girls’ Science […]
U.S SECRETARY United States Secretary of State, Mr Rex Tillerson, is expected in Nigeria today for his first official visit. According to a press Advisory from the U.S. Embassy, Tillerson would hold talks with President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow. During the meeting, both men are expected to discuss counter terrorism efforts and humanitarian issues in Nigeria’s […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
US Donald Trump’s plan to impose a twenty five per cent tariff on steel imports and ten per cent on aluminum has continued to receive criticism. The latest is from the International Monetary Fund, IMF. The body has warned that such a move would hurt the U.S as well as other countries, as they could […]
