Year: 2017
Boko Haram: Buratai Decorates Troops With Medals
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has decorated 65 soldiers with gallantry medals for outstanding performance in…
Police presents N12.8 million to families of 10 deceased officers
Mr Abubakar Mohammed, Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 5, with headquarters in Benin, on Wednesday presented…
Obaseki Orders Investigation Into Padded Exam Budget
Gov. Godwin Obaseki has ordered the immediate investigation into the N283 million padded budget for the conduct of the First…
UNICEF Establishes 6 Additional Nutrition Centres
UNICEF Field Office in Bauchi has created six additional Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) centres, to cater for malnourished…
Mauritania Abolishes ‘Too Costly’ Senate
Mauritania has joined Senegal in abolishing the Senate, its upper legislative chambers.
Kogi Govt Trains Forest Managers On New Tariff
The Kogi Government on Wednesday organised a one-day training for its forestry officers, guards and contractors on forestry tariff and…
UN Security Council Calls For Disbursement Of Funds
The UN Security Council on Wednesday called for the disbursement of the funds pledged for the Northeast Nigeria at the…
50 African Teen Migrants ‘Deliberately Drowned’
Roughly 50 teenage Somali and Ethiopian migrants were “deliberately drowned’’ on Wednesday by a smuggler, who forced 120 passengers into…
Kenya Electoral Commission Denies Interferences In Voting
Kenya Electoral Commission on Wednesday denied interferences in voting or the vote count in the general election, saying that the…
Borno Govt Unveils Plans To Boost Girl-Child Education
The Borno Government on Wednesday said it would initiate a Conditional Cash Transfer scheme to encourage girl child enrolment in…
Mathias Baba and the Young President for Nigeria
There comes a time in the life of every nation, when its young and competent people must stand up and…
Lagos Airlifts 1,353 Pilgrims To Saudi Arabia
The Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has successfully airlifted 1,353 pilgrims on four flights from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia…
Lagos gets two Computerised Vehicle Inspection Centres
Towards the efficient implementation of the State’s computerized vehicle inspection service initiative, two computerized Vehicle Inspection Centres have been completed…
LASIMRA sets up zero tolerance Task Force on illegal masts
The General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, LASIMRA, Mr. Babajide Odekunle has constituted a zero-tolerance…
Falana warns Nigerian govt on Lagos waterways
Activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has urged the Nigerian government to respect the decision of the Court of Appeal,…
Ambode splashes N55 million on Physically Challenged, NGOs
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday splashed N55 million on People Living with Disabilities, PLWDs and Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs…
Lassa Fever: Lagos Calls For Calm, Advises Public On Safety Precautions
The Lagos State Government has called on residents to be calm and not panic, assuring them that Federal Government in…
Abuja protests: Senate condemns Police brutality on protesters
The Senate on Wednesday condemned the use of force by the Police in dispersing protesters campaigning against the medical vacation…
Gov. pushes for military to intensity Adamawa-Borno border
Gov. Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa on Wednesday urged the military to intensify security on the Borno-Adamawa boarder to check any…
Jungle Justice: Suspected kidnappers lynched in Taraba
The Taraba Police Command on Wednesday confirmed that four suspected kidnappers were killed by a mob at Tella in Gassol…
Qatar Airways evaluating air routes opened by boycotting countries
Qatar Airways is evaluating whether it will use air routes which media reports said were opened this week by countries…
Alumni group seeks partnership with NAN to enhance national development
The South Korea International Alumni in Nigeria on Wednesday sought the cooperation of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) to…
CPC clears air on N17m judgment against Coca-Cola
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has dissociated itself from an insinuated N17 million judgment against Coca-Cola by the Supreme Court…
Zimbabwe approve $1bn graduate school named after Mugabe
The Zimbabwean Government on Wednesday approved one billion dollars for the construction of the first graduate school named after President…
Resettlement: State donates cash, land to 307 IDPs
The Yobe Government on Wednesday distributed plots of land, building materials and N9.2 million to 307 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
NNPC Raises Alarm on Recruitment Scam
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has, for the umpteenth time, reiterated that it has not launched a recruitment campaign…
Deportation: 540 Nigerians to be deported from Libya – NAPTIP DG
Five hundred and forty Nigerians are set for deportation from Libya, beginning from Aug. 10, Mrs. Julie Okah-Donli, Director-General, National…
Two men nabbed over double homicide
Two men who alleged killed their wives in different locations, Agege and Okota areas of Lagos State, are assisting the…
Protest against Buhari’s absence continues in Abuja
Despite the police brutalization of #ResumeorResign protesters yesterday, the pro-democracy group again converged at Abuja’s Unity Fountain today to continue…
CHAN 2018: Eagles optimistic of qualifying – Coach
Super Eagles Assistant Coach and Home-based Eagles handler, Salisu Yusuf, on Wednesday said the team was optimistic of not only…