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Edo Govt. to partner CWO on skill acquisition programme

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Edo Government has said that it will partner Catholic Women Organisation (CWO) programmes to promote skill acquisition among women in…

Indian students banned from wearing shoes, socks during exams to curb cheating

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

India’s eastern state of Bihar has banned students appearing for this year’s Class “X” board examinations from wearing shoes and…

Sudan urged to release all detained political activists

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Sudan to release all detained political activists many of whom are being denied access…

Iraq detains 1,500 women, children of Islamic State militants

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Iraqi authorities has detained 1,500 women and children from families of Islamic State (IS) militants and is coordinating with…

Suicide bomber attacks U.S. embassy in Montenegro

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

An attacker threw an explosive device at the U.S. embassy in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica on Thursday morning and subsequently…

Customs zonal command loses N360m revenue in 2017

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigerian Customs Service, Zone ‘C’, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) lost about N360 million in revenue generation in 2017, the…

Kaduna Police Commissioner says community policing is key to crime prevention

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Kaduna State, Mr Austin Iwar, on Wednesday, said proper implementation of community policing policy…

Drug Bribery Case: Greek parliament to probe politicians

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Greece’s parliament voted early on Thursday to set up a committee that will investigate politicians, including former prime ministers, over…

Winter Olympics: South Korea spent $223,237 on sister of Kim Jong Un, entourage

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

South Korea spent around 240 million won (223,237 dollars) on the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…

9 refugees die in Uganda cholera break – Authorities

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Authorities said nine refugees were confirmed dead on Thursday morning and more than 300 people were isolated in several health…

Libya removed from terror-financing watch list

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The international Financial Action Task Force (FATF) lifted Libya from the list of countries unable to fight money laundering and…

Trump’s travel ban kicked off vicious circle of ‘hatred’ across globe – Amnesty

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban in January 2017 targeting several Muslim-majority countries kicked off a vicious circle of “hatred,”…

Study shows more than 6bn people live in corrupt countries

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

More than six billion people live in countries that are corrupt, Transparency International said in a report on Wednesday.

Florida school shooting: Survivors push lawmakers to ban gun

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Dozens of teenaged survivors of the second deadliest public school shooting in U.S. history on Wednesday marched on Florida’s capital…

NIgerian Govt approves $6.7bn for construction of Ibadan – Kaduna standard gauge railway project

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday approved 6.7billion dollars for the construction of…

Maritime University gets approval to begin undergraduate programmes

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted approval to the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta, to begin undergraduate degree programmes from…

Abduction of schoolgirls: Buhari sends 3 ministers to Yobe

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Minister of Defence, retired Brig-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and that of…

Cultists attack LASPOTECH, one dead, several wounded

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

One person was killed while several others were wounded on Tuesday following a bloody attack on Ikorodu Campus of the…

Female Manager, 3 Others Sent to Prison for Defrauding Employer N250m

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

A Female manager with the Mind The Gap Company in Yaba, Lagos, Oluwatosin Ogundana, 36, has been arrested and arraigned…

Tax Evaders’ll Be Exposed, Fowler tells company directors

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Tunde Fowler, has urged members of the Institute of Directors (IoD)…

Lagos Reviews Procurement Plans of MDAs

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday reviewed the procurement plans of all the Ministries, Department and Agencies, MDAs with a…

Security guard gets 10 years imprisonment for defiling 5-year old girl

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos High Court has sentenced a 27-year old security guard to 10 years imprisonment for defiling a five-year old…

Niger state records 31 meningitis cases, 4 deaths in 2017

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Niger Government has confirmed the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) with laboratory tests confirming 31 cases and four deaths…

Social Media Week 2018: Organisers promise mind blowing experience

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Ms Ngozi Odita, the Co-founder of the 2018 Social Media Week (SMW), says the edition will assist in the creation…

Market women sensitised on Cleaner Lagos Initiative

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Lagos State Government, under its Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) has called on traders to ensure that markets in the…

FCT communities protest poor access to water facilities

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Residents of some communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Wednesday protested lack of access to the only source…

Libya, UN to continue to work on political agreement

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives (parliament) and the Tripoli-based Higher Council of State agreed to continue consultations to amend the…

CLI: Akiolu warns against dumping refuse in public places

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has warned residents of Lagos against dumping refuse in public places, saying the Cleaner Lagos…

ECOWAS inaugurates Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has inaugurated Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja to strengthen regional…

Diesel theft: Nigerian Navy arrest 7 suspects

Ezeibekwe Kingsley

8 years ago

The Nigerian Navy has arrested seven men for allegedly transporting 522 tonnes of diesel believed to be stolen from pipelines,…

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