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The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, yesterday said Aviation Security, AVSEC, personnel of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, would soon be licensed to carry arms to complement other agencies in combating security threats. À statement signed by Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, …

  Akinwunmi Ambode Representatives of women across the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State, yesterday at a rally in Ikeja, endorsed Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for a second term in office. Among the women were Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, Senior Special Adviser to the …

Ibrahim Idris The Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate withdrawal of all policemen attached to very important persons (VIPs), political and public office holders in the country. He has also deployed no fewer than 2,000 armed policemen in schools in North-eastern Nigeria as part …

LEADER of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM and founder of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike yesterday predicted that what is known today as Nigerian nation would break into six different republics before 2023. He noted that the present pigeonholed six geo-political zones of the …

Vice President, Prof, Yemi Osinbajo, said, yesterday, that whereas ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration spent only N153 billion on infrastructure in the three years preceding 2014,  N150 billion was shared in just two weeks before 2015 elections. Osinbajo, who stated this at the 7th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum for private sector …

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of attempting to score cheap political points with the abduction of schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe State last month. Prsident Buhari and Dapchi school girls In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, the party described as iniquitous the …

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday said it has commenced the implementation of the N500 billion non-oil exports stimulation loan. The CBN stated this in a circular titled ‘Circular to All Deposit Money Banks and Development Finance Institutions on the Commencement of the Non-Oil Exports Stimulation Facility (NESF). The …

West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released results of West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates in 2017-First Series, yesterday, in Lagos with 17.13 per cent pass in English Language and Mathematics. This is even as the results of 1,021 candidates, representing 9.03 per cent of the …

  The Federal Government has released about N43.92 billion (122 million dollars) to 300,000 rice farmers to increase Nigeria’s rice production by additional two million tonnes in 2018. Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development Aisha Al-Hassan stated this in New York at Nigeria’s side event during the ongoing 62nd …