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The Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, says the Federal Government is unbundling and commercialising the Nigerian Railway Corporation to optimise its operations and advance private sector participation. Saraki spoke at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum in Paris on the development of the transport sector. She said the …

Libyan mercenaries  are believed to have joined forces with  insurgents of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the Northeast as the terrorists seek to recover  lost grounds ,The Nation gathered yesterday. The insurgents struck afresh in Askira,Borno State, yesterday killing a brigadier general and three of his …

A former governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, has spent three nights in the cell of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged theft of N1.6bn belonging to Edo State. We gathered that Igbinedion, who was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon, was still being quizzed on …

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige Doctors in Nigeria have rejected a proposal by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, for physicians trained in Nigeria to work in the country for at least nine years before being allowed to migrate. This is just observed that the …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the killing of a Brigadier-General and 3 soldiers by terrorists of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province on Saturday in Borno State. Brigadier-General Dzarma Zirkusu and three soldiers were reportedly killed while providing reinforcement after ISWAP ambushed Nigerian troops in …

Immediate past Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona has lost his only sister, Mrs. Ona Anthonia Nwobi (Nee Irona) to the cold hands of death. She was aged 61. An announcement personally signed by the former Deputy Governor and made available to newsmen revealed that she will be …

The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. …

The police have arrested a commercial driver suspected to be responsible for the death of a Vanguard Journalist, Tordue Salem. The suspect, a 29-year-old commercial driver, Itoro Clement was paraded on Friday in Abuja. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba said Clement was arrested following an investigation carried out …

A heavily armed group, identified as “The Angry Vipers”, has threatened to attack Anambra-born businessman and socialite, Obi Cubana, due to the presence of Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, at his mother’s burial. The burial, which was held at Oba, Anambra State in July 2021, was a lavish display …

  The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 8, 2021 re-arraigned a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdul Bulama before Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu of the Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, on a seven count charge of …