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Bauchi govt urged to employ more primary healthcare workers

The Bauchi State Network of Civil Society Organisations (BASNEC) has urged the State Government to employ more primary healthcare workers…

Goldman Sachs shareholders back directors, executive pay packages

Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Thursday that shareholders voted to elect all of the company’s directors and that more…

Drug trafficking: Saudi Arabia sets free another Nigerian

The Saudi Arabia government has set free another Nigerian, Mallam Ibrahim Abubakar over alleged drug trafficking.

Ebonyi to empower 200 professionals

The Ebonyi government says it has concluded arrangement to empower 200 young professionals who are indigenes of the state under…
European Union (EU)

EU unveils solar tree

The delegation of the European Union (EU) to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has unveiled a…

Florida Teachers To Carry Guns On Campus

The Florida House passed a controversial school safety bill that would allow teachers to carry guns on campus. The bill…
Delta Assembly

Delta Assembly passes state capital territory development bill

The Delta House of Assembly on Thursday passed the Delta State Capital Territory Development Agency Amendment Bill, 2019.

Niger gov. condoles with Kure’s family over daughter’s death

Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has commiserated with the family of late Alhaji Abdulkadir Kure, former Governor of the state,…

Akwa Ibom: DPR decries artificial fuel scarcity

Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Akwa Ibom has decried artificial scarcity of fuel caused by the Petroleum Tanker Driver’s…
FRSC vows to prosecute drunk drivers

FRSC apprehends over 7, 000 traffic offenders in Ogun

The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says that no fewer than 7,698 traffic offenders were arrested…

Multichoice Nigeria holds workshop on sicke cell genetic counselling

Leading pay-television provider MultiChoice Nigeria, has announced its sponsorship of the 2019 Sickle Cell Genetic Counseling workshop, organised by the…
Nigerian

Court arraigns sales reps for allegedly stealing N7.1m

Two sales persons Olanike Lawal and Risikat Mayegun, were on Thursday arraigned in an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court for…

Ecobank’s Rapid Transfer App wins Asian Banker Awards

Ecobank’s Rapid Transfer App has been named Best Remittance Product and Service of the Year by the Asian Banker Excellence…

Be youth-friendly, NYCN urges Ihedioha

Imo Chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has called on the state governor-elect, Mr Emeka Ihedioha, to…

Crime upsurge: Edo Police Command launches Operation Puff Adder

By Jethro Ibileke/Benin In order to checkmate activities of criminals in the state and their sponsors, Edo State Police Command…
Nyesom Wike

Rivers community orders oil coy to suspend drilling operations

Rawlings Ete, the Paramount Ruler of Oyorokoto, a fishing community in Andoni Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers, has ordered…

Lack of rainfall: Farmer expresses concern in Cross River

Mr Godshield Kanjal, the Chief Executive Officer, Kalz Farms in Ogoja, Cross River says the current climate change in the…
President Salva Kiir

Any extension on forming unity govt. is agreement violation – South Sudan

South Sudan on Thursday maintained its position of forming a Transitional Unity Government (TGoNU) on May 12 as warring parties…

6 ships arrive Lagos ports with petrol – NPA

Six ships carrying petrol and other products are at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports…
Estimated billing: Edo govt, BEDC to meter 500,000 houses

EKEDC fully ready to commence metering – General Manager

Mr Godwin Idemudia, the General Manager, Corporate Communications of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), on Thursday expressed the company’s readiness…

Buhari consoles Christendom over Bishop Obembe’s death

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent heartfelt condolence to the family, relations, friends, and to Christendom in general, on the passage…

Saudi Arabia may raise June crude prices to Asia

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to raise June prices for all crude grades it sells to Asia to…

New Zealand postpones long-awaited re-entry into deadly mine

New Zealand postponed plans to re-enter Pike River Mine in which 29 men died in 2010, just one day before…

Thousands evacuated in Eastern India as cyclone Fani approaches

Thousands of people were being evacuated in the coastal areas of India’s eastern state of Odisha on Thursday as a…

How teenager beheaded classmate for sitting with girlfriend

A Massachusetts teenager Mathew Borges is currently facing murder trial after he stabbed his classmate Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino, and later…

UAE to jail men catcalling, staring, winking at women

Any gesture that makes a woman feel violated and uncomfortable – from catcalls to long stares and dropping phone numbers…
Rivers

Applicant remanded for allegedly belonging to secret cult

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that an applicant, Omoyede Oyebanji , be remanded in Oke-kura Prison for allegedly…

WikiLeaks founder Assange to begin fight against U.S. extradition

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is expected to begin his fight to avoid extradition from Britain to the United States in…

U.S. measures against Cuba unlawful – EU

European Union Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini, on Thursday said the U.S. law, allowing lawsuits against foreign firms active in…

4 abducted NEMA workers rescued in Rivers

The Police in Rivers say they have secured the unconditional release of four abducted staffers of the National Emergency Management…