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President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the Nigerian youths to behave themselves and ensure the nation is secured if they want jobs in the country. Buhari noted that no investor can invest in an unsecured environment, a situation he quite agreed is currently bedeviling the Nation at the moment. President Buhari, in an interview on […]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its 65 days industrial strike with effect from Thursday, following an agreement reached between the union and the federal government. This was announced on Wednesday in a statement issued by Mr Abdullahi Yalwa, National Publicity Secretary of ASUP and made available to newsmen in Bauchi. […]
The Debt Management Office (DMO) says Nigeria’s Public Debt Stock is N33.107 trillion (about 87.239 billion dollars), as at March 31, 2021. A statement obtained from DMO’s website says that the total public Debt Stock comprised of the debt stock of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), 36 State Governments and the Federal Capital […]
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has tested 2,180,444 samples for the Coronavirus as the country records 102 additional infections. The NCDC announced the new figures on its official website on Tuesday. The public health agency noted that the additional infections brought the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 166,918. […]
The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, says her country has facilitated 28 million dollars scholarships for Nigerian students to study in U.S institutions in the past one year. Leonard said this on Thursday at the commemoration of the Student Visa Day organised by the U.S Mission in Abuja. She said that the […]
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has dissolved the State Executive Council. The dissolution is with immediate effect. Those affected include the Sabi’u Baba, Secretary to the State Government; the governor’s Chief of Staff, Ladan Salihu, 21 Commissioners, and Special Advisers. Details later….
No fewer than 27 mourners were Sunday evening reportedly gunned down and several others sustained injuries when suspected armed herders stormed the Odugbeho community in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue state during a burial ceremony. Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the marauders invaded and surrounded the community at about […]
Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Monday, said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed before the end of June, 2021 by the National Assembly. PIB, which is targeted to open up the nation’s oil and gas industry, has spent twenty years on the floor of both chambers Lawan said the Senate […]
The Kaduna State Government said troops of 4Demo Battalion of the Nigerian Army have repelled an attempted attack by bandits on some locations along Kaduna-Zaria highway. According to a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna by the state Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, several bandits were neutralised by the […]
A low magnitude tremor was witnessed in Nigeria at the weekend originating around Omu-Aran in Kwara state. The tremor, according to Professor Adepelumi Abraham of the Department of Geophysics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun, where the phenomenon was recorded, the tremor has a focal depth of 15 kilometres. The report titled, […]
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