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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday inaugurate the N16 billion newly-completed office complex of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which work started in 1996. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, announced this while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Akpabio said that the building which started in 1996 witnessed slow …

A group, the Oghara Development Union, Lagos Branch has thrown its weight behind Chief James Onanefe Ibori, a former governor of Delta State over allegations of money laundering. The group called on the Federal Government to insist that every single penny that has been forfeited by Ibori’s associates in the London trial …

Leemon Ikpea A Benin High Court presided over by Justice Joseph Acha has reaffirmed its stand in the ongoing divorce suit between an Edo born multi-billionaire oil magnate and industrialist, Chief Leemon Ikpea and his wife, Mrs. Agnes Ikpea in Benin City. Ikpea is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Lee …

The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday, called on the National Assembly to support the commission in creating additional polling units in the country. Yakubu spoke when he made a “presentation on the state of voter access to polling units in Nigeria” …

The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, has said that nurturing entrepreneurship skills and creating desired social and economic outcomes by facilitating innovative, technology-driven economic growth, through the use of ICT among people with special needs are on top of NITDA’s agenda. Abdullahi stated …

Nigeria has received nearly four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF, and WHO. It was learnt that COVAX shipped 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, from Mumbai to Abuja. According to …

President Muhammadu Buhari has declared Zamfara a no-fly zone, following the recent abduction of schoolgirls in the state. The president has also approved a ban on mining activities by non-state actors. The steps are to curb the rising insecurity in the state. Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), spoke to …

The Department of State Security (DSS) has freed Salihu Tanko-Yakasai, the former spokesman to the governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje. More to come…

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has relieved his Special Adviser on Media, Salihu Tanko Yakasai of his appointment for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) government for insecurity in the country. The state commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who conveyed the governor’s directive …

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the latest abduction of hundreds of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara State as inhumane and totally unacceptable, sending out a strong warning to bandits and their sponsors. Reacting to the incident on Friday, President Buhari said that “this administration will not …