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Commander of 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island, Lagos, Brigadier General Ahmed Taiwo has said  Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, ordered the deployment of soldiers undergoing training at military schools for the Lekki exercise due to the shortage of troops. This was part of the revelations at the ongoing Lagos State Judicial Panel […]

The Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, in ceremonial police uniform, and a female para-military officer, also in uniform on Thursday collapsed at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin, during the second-term inauguration of the governor and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, causing commotion. The para-military officer first collapsed, but she was quickly revived, while the […]

  The delta state Governor, Gov.  Ifeanyi Okowa has congratulated his Edo counterpart, Mr Godwin Obaseki and his Deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu, on their inauguration for second term on Thursday. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, Okowa said that Obaseki’s emergence for another term in office was epoch-making. He lauded […]

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, PPMC a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has increased the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, from N147.67 per litre to N155.17 per litre. The PPMC disclosed this in an internal memo dated November 11, 2020, signed by Tijjani Ali explaining that landing […]

  The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has postponed its Post-UTME (PUTME) admission screening to Dec. 2. Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, Public Relations Officer of UNIBEN, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Benin. The Screening Exercise for 2020/2021 that was formerly scheduled to take place from Nov. 23rd, to Dec. 8, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja urged agencies involved in agriculture to further streamline their priorities in the inclusion of youth in driving modern methods of farming while assuring all those interested that an enabling environment will be created for full participation. In his remark at the launch of National Young Farmers Scheme, designed […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has opposed a suit before the federal high court in Lagos seeking to remove Ajami (Arabic) inscriptions on the naira notes. The apex bank made the submission in a counter-affidavit to a suit filed by Malcolm Omirhobo, a Lagos-based lawyer, before Mohammed Liman, presiding judge over the case. CBN […]

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said it will commence the enrolment of corps members into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The Director-General of NYSC, Shuaibu Ibrahim, made the disclosure during a media chat in Abuja on Monday. An effective mandatory health insurance programme has long been identified as necessary to protect Nigerians […]

Aisha Yesufu, a social activist and one of the prominent faces of the #EndSARS movement for police reform, has said the Federal Government made negotiations with protesters impossible by coming up with different excuses. She stated this in a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, insisting that #EndSARS protesters were ready to dialogue […]