…As Drivers, Passengers, Ors Severely Injured By David Sambo In just 16 days to Christmas, a headlong collision involving a stationary truck and truck from Calabar with a full load of granite occurred in Abak, Akwa Ibom State. According to ...
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INEC Plans Voting Centres For Two Million IDPs
Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission is planning to set up voting centres for over two million Internally Displaced Persons across the country. The voting centres will be sighted in IDP camps. Findings from the Federal ...
Read More »Nigeria Home To 50% Africa’s Tropical Illnesses – WHO
Nigeria is home to 50 per cent of Africa’s neglected tropical illnesses and has the highest rates of Tuberculosis, paediatric HIV, and malaria in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation. The WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, disclosed this ...
Read More »DSS Gives NNPCL 48 Hours To Resolve Fuel Scarcity
The Department of State Services has given Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other stakeholders in the downstream sector 48 hours to end the lingering fuel scarcity across the country. Addressing journalists at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, ...
Read More »Banditry: 807 Members Killed In Kaduna —ECWA Church
…Says over 70 still being held by bandits The Chairman, ECWA Kasuwan Magani District Church Council, Rev. Timothy Maigida, on Thursday said no fewer than 807 of his members were killed by bandits and communal crisis in Kajuru Local Government ...
Read More »Amid Fear Of Losing $23bn Revenue, Federal Govt Goes After Oil Thieves
The national security adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd) has said Nigeria may be losing $23 billion revenue in 2023 if crude oil theft is not checked. He disclosed this in Abuja when he inaugurated a nine-member Special Investigative Panel ...
Read More »Expert Tasks Licence Operators On Rural Connectivity
A mobile network infrastructure provider expert, Mr Satya Mekala, has tasked licence operators to include a rural connectivity strategy in their plan to capture over 45 million Nigerians who are without connectivity. This is even as Nigeria continue to gear ...
Read More »Trapped Foreign Airlines’ Fund In Nigeria Hits $550m–IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), yesterday, disclosed that Foreign Airlines’ fund trapped in Nigeria has risen to $550million. Speaking when he paid a courtesy visit to the chairman, Aviation committee, House of Representatives, Hon. Nnolim Nnaji, the vice president ...
Read More »Dangote-led Flood Committee Commences Distribution Of N1.5bn Relief Items
The Dangote-led Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation (PCFRR), known as, Dangote Flood Committee, has commenced the distribution of relief materials, worth N1.5 billion to victims of flooding nationwide. The PCFRR, which was established by the federal government following ...
Read More »Benchers Warn Against Proliferation Of Law School Campuses
The Body of Benchers on Tuesday warned the National Assembly against giving effect to its proposal to regulate the establishment of Law Schools in the country. The Chairman of BOB, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), issued the warning while admitting 4,691 ...
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