The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended election in Enugu East Senatorial District. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu made this known at a media briefing on Friday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. According to him, the election in the ...
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The National Security Council (NSC) has expressed satisfaction with the level of security across the country, insisting that the presidential and National Assembly elections will hold as scheduled, in a safe atmosphere. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of ...
Read More »Inaccurate Measurement, Not Theft Responsible For 40% Crude Losses – Federal Govt
Approximately 40 per cent of the volumes credited to crude losses in the Nigerian petroleum industry are attributable to measurement inaccuracies and not theft as often reported. Chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), Gbenga Komolafe, who disclosed ...
Read More »CSOs End 7-day Protest, Ask Buhari To Sanitise EFCC
Frontline anti-corruption civil society organisations (CSOs) have ended a seven-day protest in Lagos with s town hall meeting and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sanitise the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to preserve its integrity. The week-long protest ...
Read More »Fire Guts Federal Secretariat In Kwara
The Federal Secretariat in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, has been gutted by fire on Saturday. LEADERSHIP gathered that the fire outbreak which occurred at about 4.39pm was a result of a mechanical fault. It was further gathered that prompt intervention of ...
Read More »NHRC Seeks Borno Govt’s Support On Probe Of Rights Violation
The National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC ) has appealed to the Borno State government to support its special independent investigative panel set up to investigate human rights violations in the North East . The executive secretary of NHRC, Mr ...
Read More »340 Surrender As Troops Kill 77 Terrorists, Arrest 41 Suspects
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said its troops operating in the North-East, North-West and North-Central parts of the country, have killed 77 terrorists, arrested 41 of them including collaborators and rescued 59 civilians in two-week operations. The Director, Defence Media ...
Read More »CBN To Audit Banks Over New Naira Notes
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to begin an audit of banks alongside its on-site monitoring exercise to know those who are dispensing the new notes while those who are not will be appropriately sanctioned. Speaking during a ...
Read More »IGP Posts, Redeploys DIGs, AIGs, CPs
Inspector-general of police (IGP) Usman Baba has ordered the posting/redeployment of deputy inspectors-general of police (DIGs), assistant inspectors-general of police (AIGs) and commissioners of police (CPs) to departments, commands and formations. Force spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi said this is in ...
Read More »Fuel Crisis: NNPCL, IPMAN Reach Agreement On Direct Supply, Pricing
The scarcity of petrol and arbitrary increases being experienced across the country would ease in a few days following agreement reached by Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). Stakeholders in the ...
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