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Commuters raise alarm over armed robbery attacks on Abuja-Keffi-Lafia highway

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

Commuters plying the Abuja-Keffi-Lafia highway in Nasarawa State have expressed concerns over the increasing cases of armed robbery on the…

President Buhari accepts resignation of Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday accepted the resignation of the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun. This information is contained…

Buhari orders NEMA to declare flooding ‘national disaster’

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari has delegated authority to the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Maihaja, to…

Zainab Ahmed takes over Finance Ministry after Adeosun’s exit

Lanre Babalola

8 years ago

Minister of State Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, will oversee the Ministry of Finance, henceforth.

FG defends appointment of Bichi as DSS boss

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Federal Government says President Muhammadu Buhari is not lopsided in the totality of appointments made into public offices and…

Speeding vehicle kills mother, baby in Ogun

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

A Mitsubishi pick up van on Friday knocked down a nursing mother backing a baby and holding another child at…

Customs intercepts truck load of military uniforms in Imo

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’ Owerri, said it intercepted a truck carrying bales of military…

LAGESC arrests handcart pusher with five live bullets, two cartridges

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has arrested a handcart pusher, Suraju Rabiu with five live bullets and two…

Obasanjo storms Alake’s 75th birthday

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday stormed the 75th birthday celebration of the paramount ruler of Egbaland,…

South-East to benefit from $2bn China’s investment – Buhari

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

President Muhammadu Buhari says the new investment commitments coming into Nigeria’s textile sector, of which Aba is a major beneficiary,…

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the…

China willing to provide Venezuela help

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

China is willing to provide Venezuela with what help it can, Premier Li Keqiang told Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on…

Flood claims 53 lives in Katsina, Kaduna in 4 months

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The North West zone of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA) on Friday said 53 lives were lost to flood in…

2019: Group rallies support for Ambode, warns APC against dropping him

Kazeem Ugbodaga

8 years ago

A group, Ambodemania Movement Support Worldwide on Friday urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to perish the thought of ganging…

Kenyatta proposes to cut fuel tax to 8%

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Friday said a new and unpopular tax on petroleum products was necessary but that…

Zimbabwe crafts short-term economic blue print

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Zimbabwean government is crafting a short-term economic blue print to help stabilise the economy as it pushes with its…

South Africa to continue to put African agenda on BRICS – Ramaphosa

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said South Africa like in the past will continue to put African issues on the…

IPOB’s sit-at-home: Banks, markets defy order in Umuahia

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order…

2019: Dankwambo promises to offer solutions to Nigeria’s problems

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Gombe State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, said he would provide solutions to the…

Doctors donate drugs to Kogi flood victims

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kogi Chapter, on Friday, donated drugs to flood victims at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…

Air Force recruits 7,644 Nigerians in 3 years

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A total of 7,644 Nigerians have been recruited into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) since assumption of office of President…

Man allegedly kidnaps 3 men

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A 26-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Friday brought before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping…

2019: Ebonyi APC gubernatorial aspirant rejects zoning, consensus

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Prof. Bernard Odoh, a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described zoning…

Funeral for wife of ex-Pakistan PM Sharif draws huge crowds

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Tens of thousands of people defied scorching heat in Pakistan on Friday to attend funeral prayers for the wife of…

Evans’ kidnap victim narrates encounter

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

An Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos heard on Friday that kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, known popularly as Evans, was the…

Second Niger Bridge project reaches 50% completion

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Work on the second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta and Onitsha in Anambra, has reached 50 per cent completion,…

IPOB’s sit-at-home: Enugu CP applauds residents for defying order

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

The Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Mohammed Danmallam, has applauded the residents for defying the order by the…

2019: Kwankwaso promises to tackle insecurity if elected president

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has promised to tackle insecurity…

Uganda dispatches teams to contain anthrax outbreak

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

Uganda’s Ministry of Health and that of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries have dispatched teams of experts to contain anthrax…

Nigerian Govt advised not to allow politics to overheat economy

Adekunle Dada

8 years ago

A financial expert, Dr Samuel Nzekwe, has advised the Federal Government not to allow politics to overheat the economy.

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