The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has reiterated its readiness to revoke the registration of Non-Governmental Organizations found to have links with any terrorist group. Abdulrasheed Bawa the executive Chairman of the Commission disclosed this at the opening of a one-day workshop on economic and financial crime reporting the commission organised for […]
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has asked the federal government to suspend the National Housing and Population Census scheduled to begin on May 3. The body requested this in a communique issued at the end of its monthly meeting held at the residence of its acting leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, in Isanya Ogbo, […]
Imran J Umar, a Nigerian student stuck in Sudan has narrated how his colleagues fleeing from the war outbreak in Sudan have to use their Passports as collateral for their bus to get going over alleged non-payment by the Federal Government. Umar, made the revelation while responding to a tweet by Madam Abike […]
Delta State House of Assembly members have unanimously approved the upgrade of the state School of Marine Technology to a polytechnic. The approval followed the passage into law of a bill before the House seeking the repeal of the Delta State School of Marine Technology, Burutu, Law 2006 and enacting the Delta State […]
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada, on Wednesday, said no Nigerian life has been lost so far in the crisis engulfing Sudan. He stated this at a media briefing after the Federal Executive Council Meeting, adding that the Federal Government had already perfected plans to evacuate over 5,000 citizens in the […]
Delta State Government (DTSG) has described the level of compliance of teachers and students to resume the third term school calendar in the state as impressive. The Commissioner for Secondary Education in the state, Rose Ezewu, stated this while monitoring the resumption of schools for the third term academic activities across the state. Ezewu […]
Babafemi Oba, the recently posted Controller, Correction Centre, Delta State Command, has appealed to the State Government to provide measures to ensure offenders of the law do not go back to their old ways when released from correctional centres. Oba appealed that the prerogative of mercy be brought back to the system to […]
The Governor of Delta State, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa has said that the state was ready to partner investors in its vast oil and gas deposits as the country grappled with economic turnaround. The governor made this known on Wednesday while receiving Delta Special Economic Zone license from the Federal Government through Nigerian Export Processing […]
A pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has said cervical cancer may become the first cancer to be eliminated with a vaccine. In a statement signed by the company and in commemoration of World Immunisation Week, Medical Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pfizer, Kodjo Soroh, said there was a need to invest in vaccine research and development. He said, […]
The federal government says the 40 buses evacuating Nigerians from the civil unrest in Sudan cost about $1.2 million. According to NAN, Geoffery Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, spoke on Wednesday. The minister said the high cost of the evacuation was to provide security cover for the Nigerians’ journey to the Egyptian borders. “The sum […]
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